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His work. has this project changed your music tastes at all? have you discovered some music you hadn't heard of before? some artists you didn't know? i mean, you come away with this thinking you're more of an expert in hip-hop than you were before? >> an expert on hip-hop like rain man. hopefully not rain man but it's really interesting because i've been -- i've been reading a lot of hip-hop. i've been reading the lyrics. i haven't been listening to them but i'm not sure if that's the original way that the artist meant for their -- for their raps to be experienced but i think it's -- it's inte...

His program also compares how smart a song is based on things like syllable count and word size. and the database could eventually be cross-referenced with other cultural information of the time. >> right now it is about 40,000 songs. lyrics from 40,000 songs. about 5,000 albums and about 2,500 artists. >> believe it or not when i was in high school i was into public enemy, for example. i mean, do you look at their lyrics, for example, and compare that to today with other artists and see a difference? >> i haven't done that search yet but that's the type of things that can be done. right now i...

It sounds like a lot and daniel sieberg wants to meet the man and check it out. >> reporter: the lyrics in hip-hop music often tells a story. sometimes they're controversial, sometimes they're nonsensical. sometimes they help shape a generation. for this man, hip-hop lyrics have become his digital life with the hip-hop word count. where did the idea for hip-hop word count come from? >> i was sitting in my car and a song came on the radio and i was talking to a friend of mine and the song was -- it was a popular song and the song was so simple and i said to a friend of mine, i think that modern...