Ye — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 89 songs across 11 albums by Ye. They use 4,114 unique words out of 19,008 (lexical richness MATTR 0.72), with an average of 214 content words per song. Emotional tone: 22% of songs positive, 60% neutral, 18% negative.
Most used words by Ye
- know (386)
- right (160)
- love (157)
- need (153)
- say (148)
- god (144)
- see (141)
- man (137)
- shit (127)
- one (119)
- make (115)
- life (115)
- baby (109)
- want (106)
- good (105)
- let (102)
- time (97)
- tell (95)
- back (95)
- made (91)
Signature phrases
- “study war” (39)
- “know god breathed” (20)
- “god breathed know” (17)
- “thank god” (17)
- “good life” (17)
- “breathed know god” (16)
- “kanyes workout plan” (16)
- “run away” (16)
- “wrong things” (15)
- “whole life” (14)
Colors in the lyrics
- black (41)
- white (16)
- red (12)
- gold (7)
- pink (5)
- rose (3)
- silver (3)
- green (3)
Albums analyzed
- The College Dropout (2004)
- Late Registration (2005)
- Graduation (2007)
- 808s & Heartbreak (2008)
- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)
- Yeezus (2013)
- The Life of Pablo (2016)
- ye (2018)
- Jesus Is King (2019)
- Donda (2021)
- BULLY (2025)