No Surprise: Skateboarding Climbing the Hip Hop Charts

Published 5/7/2014 by Rob Meronek

I have 25+ years of rap lyrics memorized that you can get spilling from my sauced up lungs with just a small percentage of alcohol in my blood. It's been an interesting unfolding over those two plus decades watching that other thing I'm into mesh cultures with hip hop. Today I was cleaning up some of my digital memory banks and ran some key words through Rap Genius' Rap Stats tool. They catalog all these words in hip hop lyrics and created a tool that plots the useage of words in lyrics over the years. Are you surprised by the growth of skateboarding? I wonder if the sketchy skateboarding industry has seen the same growth in their numbers. In regular popsicle stick boards, my guess is no.

And just for fun, here's the rollerblading chart. What trends can you spot in there? Are rappers goingto latch on to scooters next?

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