The Trending Use Of Profanity: 1985 – 2013įinally, let’s take a glance at the profanity trend in the examined time period of 1985 – 2013. Ludacris soars to the top of this chart of 15, featuring twice with a total of 195 shrewd vocals, with an overwhelming appreciation for the use of ‘ho’. This table sets the swearing out nice and simple, displaying: the record, artist, and song with its total uses of each examined cuss-word. Dre and Tupac appear multiple times once again in these results. Too $hort takes out the #1 position in this case with his record Raw, Uncut & X-Rated, aptly titled and full of warning, right? Bare in mind, this record does only contain five tracks, to which a whopping 265 cuss words have managed to be spat when spun in its entirety. This chart breaks down the vulgar lyrics in a different manner measuring albums with the highest amount of swear words per song. Are these results suggesting Californians as the cuss-kings? The Top 10 Profane Records: Per Track Featuring three times, twice with N.W.A and once for 2001’s groundbreaking The Chronic is Dr. Hogging two thirds of the podium is the dearly missed Tupac Shakur which his records All Eyez On Me and the posthumous Until The End Of Time. The Top 10 Profane Recordsīefore dissecting the aggregated results into the most profane rap records, can you guess which artist and which record take out the coveted-cusser #1? The most commonly conveyed-cuss words appear to be: N-word, F*ck and Sh*t. Obviously, there are exceptions of more heavily laden cussing versus the less. In further breaking down these statistics, the results show that on average there are 13.76 uses of profanity per track. The first graph represents an aggregated total of offensive language and their use in popular rap music from 1985 – 2013. If you’re not too versed in the world of rap and hip-hop, be warned, you’re about to see the use of some pretty nasty words. (Any records you can think of that helped the year hit the top?) The overall results are fascinating, including showing over 31,500 cuss words had been spat in a mere 145 records, that one artist managed to use the word “bitch” 128 times in five tracks, while 2001 was the year of utmost vulgar. In extracting the dirty worded data, five albums were selected from each examined year that were deemed ‘popular’ by the standard of: total sales, artist name recognition, album hit density, influential and overall importance. 20 – Ghost In The Machine (B.o.It’s no secret that rappers love to let the more vulgar side of linguistics flow from their mouths, this freeform of expression is the height of rap and hip hop’s appeal. However, in some very interesting research conducted by music blog Best Tickets, the website focused on just how much our favourite rappers have been swearing from 1985 – 2013. The song itself is allowed to talk about explicit material (drugs, shagging etc.), but without dropping an F/W/C-Bomb to make its point. The rules for this are simple: If the radio would bleep any single word on the track, it doesn’t make the list. You calm down, scroll through this page and view the 20 greatest rap songs ever not to contain a single swear word. What happens when you’ve grown up, got a mortgage, a wife you hate and two and a half kids you regret? What do you play at little Tommy’s 6 th birthday party when you grew up blasting Illmatic out your bedroom window, and little Tommy wants to be just like his Daddy, the unoriginal little sh*t? Whether for flow or emotive purposes, or simply to be contrary and ridiculous, it’s usage is so prevalent we have become somewhat numb to it appearing in rap music. Swearing, cusses, curse words, whatever you want to call them, are one of the foundations of rap & hip-hop music.
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