"Prepare your vernacular": Eminem’s Diversity of Lyrics Visualized Through Lexical Richness

This scatterplot shows the lexical diversity of Eminem’s lyrics, measured as the ratio of unique words to total words, plotted against the total word count of each song. Each bubble represents a track, with size scaled to its Genius pageviews to reflect popularity. Skit tracks were excluded (n = 23), leaving 341 songs for analysis. Two shaded bands mark the interquartile ranges (middle 50 percent) along each axis: The vertical band (696 to 952 words) captures the typical length of an Eminem song. The horizontal band (0.395 to 0.462) reflects the median range of lexical richness.