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On Monday (July 11), Myka 9 re-shared an Instagram post from Parker Pubs Press comparing his vocabulary to Daniels' chart.

The Largest Vocabulary In Hip Hop. He analyzed the first 35,000 words of various rappers who would earn a point by rapping a unique word. A unique word couldve been any word in the English language, but once the rapper had used the word, it would no longer count toward their score. Daniels revisited the project in 2019 and determined Aesop Rock and Busdriver used over 6,425 unique words, thus making them among the MCs with the largest vocabularies. But apparently, theres a new king and its not Eminem, Black Thought or Kendrick Lamar. No, the honor goes to the inimitable Myka 9 of Freestyle Fellowship, Project Blowed, Haiku DEtat and Magic Heart Genies. On Monday (July 11), Myka 9 re-shared an Instagram post from Parker Pubs Press the publishers of his new book My Kaleidoscope comparing his vocabulary to Daniels chart. According to the graphic, Myka employs over 9,000 unique words throughout his catalog. The editors of Myka 9s new book *My Kaleidoscope* analyzed his compiled and corrected lyrics to compare his vocabulary usage to Matt Daniels chart, the caption read. Results available here: medium.com/@prkrpubs.*My Kaleidoscope* available at myka9book.com. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Myka 9 (@myka9) As explained in the article, Parker Pubs analyzed 35,000 words of Myka 9lyrics. They followed the methods described in Daniels article to ensure a valid comparison to his data. All of the lyrics were either directly written by Myka 9 or transcribed by the editors and corrected by Myka 9. They omitted all apostrophes and possessives and standardized all numbers and contractions, until they had exactly 35,000 words of Myka 9 lyrics. To be recognized in Matt Daniels Hip Hop vocabulary chart is a high honor, Myka 9 tells HipHopDX. Ive been aware of Bus Driver, GZA and Aesop as earlier recipients of such acknowledgment. I didnt think my effort would be overlooked yet to be heralded by our peers in this collective is a crowning achievement. Maximum gratitude and utmost respect. Its all love. Read more