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Male Musical Artists Still Dominate the Charts – and the Margin Isn’t Small
Data doesn’t lie. Is the music industry an shining example of gender equality that we should seek to emulate, or are the scales tipped in favor of men? We ran the numbers to find out. Here’s the truth...
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Gangsta Rap is Dead – and Your Favorite Rapper Has Blood on Their Hands
Imagine if Drake released his record-breaking album Scorpion in 1988, the year Straight Outta Compton hit the airwaves. Not only would the music would seem totally out of place, but he’d be straight up...
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Drake vs Kanye: Quantifying Hip Hop’s Biggest (Proxy) Beef
It’s the question no one is asking – how could it be possible for Kanye not to have his hands in the Drake and Pusha T beef? Now that the dust has settled, we’re diving into the numbers to understand...
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Nicki Minaj, Cardi B, Drake or Kanye West: Who Was the Most Self-Obsessed...
Back in 2017 it was discovered that Nicki Minaj mentioned herself on wax significantly more than her contemporaries. To recap, 11.5% of Nicki Minaj’s discography prior to QUEEN contains...
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Behind Drizzy’s Most Essential Album, “Nothing Was The Same”
The months before the release of Nothing Was The Same, the third studio album by Canadian hip hop titan Drake, were dominated by the emcee’s hit singles. The album’s first single, “Started From The...
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HipHopNumbers: Future’s Love of Lean, Drake’s Social Silence, Missy’s...
You’ve stumbled into an ongoing collaborative series between CentralSauce and HipHopNumbers, where I take a deep dive into the best tweets and statistical discoveries of the previous week. There’s a...
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The Grammys are Statistically Biased and Hip-Hop Doesn’t Need Them
It’s 2019. Hip-hop has been the biggest genre in music for more than two years now, but The Grammys still reek of bias against the genre. Recent snubs of iconic albums like Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. and...
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