http://popchartlab.com/index.php/poster_detail/grand_taxonomy_of_rap_names/



A great little poster from Pop Chart Lab, looking at the different taxonomies of rappers and MC names, a very interesting subject for me. Entertaining and enlightening, it shows the main areas and subjects that seem to have inspired rappers' choice of names, and groups them accordingly, reading like a who's who of rap and hip hop music. Although it is difficult to follow some of the links, due to combinations of words in names that that fall into taxonomies placed at either ends of the page, the majority of them are well organised and easily comparable to their fellow rappers, and major trends and links are clearly visible. It would be interesting to see if popularity of certain taxonomies were influenced by any other factors, such as genre (gangsta rap, hip hop, crunk etc.) or location, there's definitely scope to continue this theme!