You don't have to guess twice which genre of music contains the most profanity. Do you know how dominant it is against other genres? A slightly more difficult question is which musician curses the most, and even more difficult, which album contains the most swear words. Find out all this below!
It's no secret that rap music genre with the most cursing, but also many others are not overly angelic. What musical performers? Who would you put at the top of the list? Snoop Dogg? Limp Bizkit? We may not be able to agree on who uttered the first curse in the popular song (according to one version, it was Louis Armstrong in the composition Old Man Mose, which he recorded with Patricia Norman in 1938, although it was actually just a noise in the pronunciation of the word "bucket", which was renamed to "f**k it", and not an actual curse) , but we know who has the most foul language.
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Musicians who swear the most in their songs
Among musicians, he holds the record for cursing in one song Lil' Jon, who managed to squeeze incredible people into the song "Real Nigga Roll Call". 295 profanity! Still, he hasn't been trashy enough in his career to make him one of the music artists with the most profanity in their vocabulary.
1. Lil Wayne
2. Snoop Dogg
3. Jay Z
4. 2Pac
5. DMX
6. Eminem
7. Rick Ross
8. Busta Rhymes
9. 50 Cent
10. Ice Cube
Music album with the most profanity
The winner of this category is a relatively unknown American rapper Mickey Avalon with a self-titled album featuring incredible 3094 swear words. Second and third place went to the late 2Pac, who managed to get two more albums into the Top 10. If he were still alive, he would surely reign on the list of musicians who swear the most in their songs.
1. Mickey Avalon, Mickey Avalon – 3094 swear words
2. All Eyez on Me (double CD), 2Pac - 1091 swear words
3. Until the End of Time, 2Pac - 800 swear words
4. Turn Up Why Turn Down, DJ Dallas Green – 779 swear words
5. All Eyes on Me, 2Pac – 752 swear words
6. RU Still Down? (Remember Me), 2Pac – 740 swear words
7. I Am Not a Human Being (Deluxe Edition) by Lil Wayne - 722 swear words
8. Still Smokin and Leaned Out, Lil Wayne - 700 swear words
9. Anarchy, Busta Rhymes – 677 swear words
10. Blood Moon: Year of the Wolf, Game – 675 curses
The music genre with the most swearing
Rap yes, the genre of music that has by far the most cursing in its works, as swear words are present in as many as 72 percent of the texts. In second place is the spoken word (also slam, slam poetry and performance poetry), which is a literary genre that is classified as lyric poetry and appears in public mostly on stages where slam is performed (e.g. poetry duels).
1. Rap – 71.8 percent of the time
2. Spoken Word - 9.99 percent of the time
3. Electric music - 6.64 percent of the time
4. Rock – 5.57 percent of the time
5. R&B - 5.31 percent of the time
6. Reggae – 5.06 percent of the time
7. Film music - 2.14 percent of the time
8. Vanguard - 2.03 percent of the time
9. Folk - 1.74 percent of the time
10. Ethnic - 1.35 percent of the time
