I subscribe to the UK weekly e-mail server Popbitch, which pointed me toward this awesome site, which puts the context of many rap songs in graphic form — graphic as in “charts and graphs,” not necessarily “explicit.” (Although, this being rap music, there is of course the occasional F-bomb and such. And if the radio-unfriendly version of “Play” makes your jaw drop, stay far, far away from “Statistical Analysis of What David Banner Will Do to You on the Dance Floor.” )

Need a more few examples?

– The bar chart “Correlation Between Freak and Leek Based on Contemporary African-American Nomenclature.”

– A sample page from Rick Ross’ November 2007 calendar, featuring a lot of “hustlin.”

– And the pie chart below about the participants involved in walking it out.

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