JAY‐Z — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 232 songs across 16 albums by JAY‐Z. They use 9,944 unique words out of 68,096 (lexical richness MATTR 0.83), with an average of 294 content words per song. Emotional tone: 27% of songs positive, 41% neutral, 31% negative.
Most used words by JAY‐Z
- know (866)
- nigga (767)
- shit (591)
- yall (549)
- niggas (518)
- back (483)
- one (462)
- fuck (425)
- love (419)
- see (389)
- life (370)
- make (353)
- baby (325)
- money (316)
- let (309)
- right (297)
- want (297)
- man (282)
- come (275)
- say (271)
Signature phrases
- “new york” (60)
- “money cash hoes” (45)
- “yall niggas” (40)
- “yall know” (37)
- “mind right” (37)
- “jigga man” (34)
- “one day” (30)
- “know love” (30)
- “gon stay” (30)
- “hoes money cash” (28)
Colors in the lyrics
- black (155)
- white (61)
- green (45)
- blue (41)
- gold (39)
- red (26)
- rose (14)
- brown (14)
Albums analyzed
- Reasonable Doubt (1996)
- In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 (1997)
- Vol. 2… Hard Knock Life (1998)
- Vol. 3… Life and Times of S. Carter (1999)
- The Dynasty: Roc La Familia (2000)
- The Blueprint (2001)
- The Best of Both Worlds (2002)
- The Blueprint²: The Gift & The Curse (2002)
- The Black Album (2003)
- Unfinished Business (2004)
- Kingdom Come (2006)
- American Gangster (2007)
- The Blueprint 3 (2009)
- Watch the Throne (2011)
- Magna Carta… Holy Grail (2013)
- 4:44 (2017)