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Language & Communication· 2026Q1

The language of hip-hop: A corpus analysis

James E. Thorold Rogers, Mitsuko Isoda, Nami Yamamoto

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A 1.6 million-token corpus of 1,600 American rap songs (1979-2019) reveals chronological shifts in slang, profanity, and culturally significant vocabulary, addressing methodological challenges in rap lyric analysis.

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Field: Linguistics and Language

Linguistics and LanguageSocial Sciences