Literary elites love to rep Shakespeare’s vocabulary: across his entire corpus, he uses 28,829 words, suggesting he knew over 100,000 words and arguably had the largest vocabulary, ever. I decided to compare this data point against the most famous artists in hip hop. I used each artist’s first 35,000 lyrics. That way, prolific artists, such…

When Rihanna first signed her record deal with Def Jam in 2005, she said then-label-president Jay Z wouldn’t let her out of the office until the 17-year-old signed on the dotted line. Six months later her debut album Music of the Sun hit the charts. Since then, she released all seven of her albums—including 2012’s Unapologetic—on Def Jam. But much…

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Dubspot caught up with UK dubstep producer and DJ Flux Pavilion at Ultra Music Festival 2014 in Miami. Head over to our blog for more info: http://bit.ly/S6oecF Check out our channel page for more tutorials, reviews, recaps, interviews, see what our partners are up to and more! And stay up to date with our latest…

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We are joined by Rich Hilton who is literally fresh off stage from his Chic gig in China and back in his hotel, the internet holds out. Also new this week is Andy Hunter, a DJ and collaborator with Robbie on Sushi Friday Music. We start with a new purchase by Gaz – the Belkin…

To celebrate her new album Z, SZA breaks down the lyrics of her track “Babylon” featuring Kendrick Lamar. Sign up for our newsletter ► http://bit.ly/JZLTsignup [Life and Times]

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