FROM COUNTER-CULTURE TO THE CULTURE
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A Statistical Analysis of
Modern Hip-Hop & Consumerism
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by Aayush Patel
ATLANTA
CULTURE (2016)
Migos
1. Culture = 28.5%
2. T-Shirt = 47.5%
3. Call Casting = 30.8%
4. Bad and Boujee = 33.7%
5. Get Right Witcha = 23.7%
6. Slippery = 46.2%
7. Big on Big = 52.0%
8. Brown Paper Bag = 51.9%
9. What the Price = 39.7%
10. Deadz = 49.5%
11. All Ass = 39.2%
12. Kelly Price = 45.2%
13. Out Yo Way = 7.1%
Total % of Consumeristic Lyrics: 3712/9541 = 38.9%
FUTURE (2017)
Future
1. Rent Money = 37.7%
2. Good Dope = 37.3%
3. Zoom = 77.7%
4. Draco = 24.6%
5. Super Trapper = 79.9%
6. POA = 67.4%
7. Mask Off = 77.3%
8. High Demand = 37.1%
9. Outta Time = 46.9%
10. Scrape = 12.3%
11. I’m So Groovy = 72.3%
12.Might As Well = 60.2%
13. Poppin Tags = 73.9%
14. Massage in My Room = 45.3%
15. Flip = 38.9%
16. When I Was Broke = 58.1%
17. Feds Did a Sweep = 27.3%
Total % of Consumeristic Lyrics: 5074/9985 = 50.8%
ISSA (2017)
21 Savage
1. Famous = 21.4%
2. Bank Account = 40.8%
3. Close My Eyes = 3.7%
4. Bad Business = 21.5%
5. Baby Girl = 30.5%
6. Thug Life = 6.3%
7. Facetime = 2.5%
8. Nothin New = 11.5%
9. Numb = 47.5%
10. Dead People = 55.0%
11. Money Convo = 47.4%
12. Special = 15.6%
13. Whole Lot = 22.3%
14. 7 Min Freestyle = 17.9%
Total % of Consumeristic Lyrics: 2094/8748 = 23.9%