According to the Guinness Book of World Records website, Eminem is the current record holder of the world's fastest rap on a hit single, which puts him at the top amongst the world's most renowned rap talents.
Tung Twista made a name for himself by breaking the world record for fastest rapper – 598 syllables in 55 seconds, verified by a speech pathologist, a representative from Guinness World Records and a reporter from The Source.
Eminem is only able to rap so fast because of his many years of practice. Growing up in the Detroit slums he would write wraps daily and perfected, over time he's literally trained his tongue and mouth to move at lightning speed, while still retaining full pronunciation of all the syllables.
One of the first rappers who popularized this style of rap, Twista, in a song with Tech N9ne entitled "Worldwide Choppers" implied this in his lyrics, "I'm finna be usin' it as energy, watch how radiant I'ma be / Like a helicopter when the words fly" was used to loosely describe the style of fast-paced rap, but the ...
The current Guinness World Record for “World's Fastest Rapper” is held by Los Angeles rapper Rebel XD. He first obtained the title in 1992 for rapping 674 syllables in 54.9 seconds, breaking Twista's record set earlier that year.
As a genre, hip-hop hits the big 4-0 this September. That's when the seminal 1979 single “Rapper's Delight” celebrates its 40th anniversary.
In total, the 3-min 31-sec “Godzilla” contains 959 words from start to end (an average of 4.54 words per second) – considerably less than the 1,560 words that appear in the 6-min 4-sec “Rap God” (an average of 4.28 words per second), which retains the title for the most words in a hit single.
The song's tempo is 148 BPM.
It's hard to say which artist holds the title for the fastest rap ever, but many consider Eminem's 2013 hit “Rap God” to be the fastest rap song in history. The song clocks in at an astounding 9.6 words per second and contains some of the most intense verbal acrobatics from any rapper.
American rapper Juice Wrld's feature on the track marked his first posthumous release following his fatal seizure resulting from a drug overdose on December 8, 2019. Eminem's third verse on the track holds the record for his fastest rap verse, rapping 11 syllables per second, or 222 words in 30 seconds.
It only lasts for a duration of 31 seconds, and Eminem manages to pack in a staggering 224 words, equaling a total of 330 syllables. That works out to an average of 10.65 syllables per second, or 7.23 words per second.
“Godzilla” also far exceeds his famously speedy “Rap God,” where he spits 157 syllables in 16.3 seconds, or 9.6 syllables per second.
With the help of his loyal fans and promoter Yung Dro, Crucified's YouTube page has been able to exceed half of a million views in a short period of time. Friday September 13th, 2013 Crucified broke the Guinness world record for the fastest rap MC with a blistering speed of 949 syllables in 49 seconds.
#1 Jay-Z. Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, is an American rapper who hails from NYC—a fact he raps about consistently over the course of his nearly three-decade career. He quickly rose to fame in the mid-1990s when he released his debut studio album, Reasonable Doubt, from his own record label Roc-A-Fella Records.
Rap God packs 1,560 words into six minutes and three seconds, an average of just under 4.3 words a second. It also includes a 15-second passage in which he manages 97 words, at just under 6.5 words a second, which is really quite fast.
Eminem's achievements have been logged into the Guinness Book of Records: ten consecutive No. 1 albums, the fastest rap and the biggest chart leap. Marshall achieved a record-breaking result when in January 2020 his surprise drop “Music To Be Murdered By” debuted on top of the Billboard charts.
Question: What singer holds the world record for most words in a hit single? Answer: Eminem. Detroit-native, Eminem, set the Guinness world record with the song "Rap God" clocking in 1,560 words in six minutes. Eminem rapped an average of 4.28 words per second in the track.
Rap began in 1971, in the Bronx, with Kool Herc, who was from Jamaica. At block parties, Kool Herc would play two turntables by hand and manipulate the sound to create an entirely new sound, while he rapped the lyrics from the song he was playing.
DJ Kool Herc is widely credited with kicking off the genre. His back-to-school parties in the 1970s were the incubator of his burgeoning idea, where he used his two record turntables to create loops, playing the same beat over again, and extending the instrumental portion of a song.
As early as 1956, deejays were toasting (an African tradition of "rapped out" tales of heroism) over dubbed Jamaican beats. It was called "rap", expanding the word's earlier meaning in the African-American community—"to discuss or debate informally."