Gallery: The Locales That Rappers Name-Check, Visualized by a Robot

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    Tahir Hemphill's Maximum Distance. Minimum Displacement is a visualization of rapper's travels through their lyrics. This is the well-traveled lyric universe of Jay Z.
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    Kendrick Lamar's lyrics always come back to Compton.
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    The light drawings were made using a robotic arm and long exposure photography. Here are Drake's travels.
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    Cam'ron's visualization has "swag" says Hemphill. It looks like the rapper sounds.
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    Here you can see a well-traveled triangle between New York City, Miami and Los Angeles.
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    Even though Nas doesn't have the most songs in the database, he charted the most locations.
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    Tupac, with plenty of California references.
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    Lil Wayne.
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