By Maurice Bobb

Atlanta rapper Rich Homie Quan was rushed to the hospital Tuesday night (May 6) after suffering two seizures during a music video shoot, TMZ reports.

Earlier tonight, the recent selection for the 2014 XXL Freshman cover was reportedly shooting the visuals for “Walk Thru,” off of his I Promise I Will Never Stop Going In mixtape, in Piedmont Park, Atlanta, with Compton spitter Problem before suffering back-to-back convulsions.

The report says that the “Type of Way” MC fell to the ground and smashed his head severely before paramedics were called to the scene to take him to an area hospital for emergency treatment.

Quan’s condition is unknown at press time.

Stay with MTV News for more details as the story continues to develop.

Adam Fleischer

When Action Bronson raps, oftentimes, it’s at least partially about food. The way he handles this subject is one of the things that has made the New York native a favorite among his fans.

In the first episode of his VICE series, “F–k, That’s Delicious,” Bam Bam takes us with him on a snackventure from New Zealand to South Africa to Queens, New York. At various points in the 10-minute episode, the entire palate gets satisfied: there’s pizza, pork belly and a malted milkshake, among other general delectability.

OK. Time to go eat.

Adam Fleischer

50 Cent and Jadakiss may have put their issues in the past, but that doesn’t mean it’s all love on their new collaboration, “Irregular Heartbeat,” which also features Kidd Kidd.

In fact, it’s anything but all love. The hook and verses on the song and video, which dropped on Tuesday (May 6), are filled with tough talk and the lyrical equivalent of the three MCs puffing out their chests. For his part, Kiss decides to take aim at Internet thugs: “30 something and you ain’t even open your mouth yet/ Social media is giving cowards a outlet/ See him in person, say something, I doubt that/ Rather get caught with it than get caught without that/ Trying to back peddle and stumble on the curb/ You starin’ at the ground, you mumblin’ your words.”

The spooky, minimalist G Rocka & Medi track is the latest in a weekly string of 50 Cent releases. The accompanying visuals, falling in line with the gritty lyrical themes of the track, show the story of a home-invasion-turned-kidnapping.

50′s fifth solo album, Animal Ambition, drops on June 3.

Adam Fleischer

More so than many genres of music, rap is based around words. They hold a special importance. It’s why there are full books and websites dedicated to lyrics alone.

To help quantify some of the the variance in words that rappers use, Matt Daniels, who is a coder, designer and data scientist, put together a project he called “The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop.” To do this, he compiled dozens of rappers’ first 35,000 lyrics, using the website RapGenius, and sought to determine which MC had the largest vocab.

“I used a research methodology called token analysis to determine each artist’s vocabulary,” he exlpains on his site. “Each word is counted once, so pimps, pimp, pimping, and pimpin are four unique words. To avoid issues with apostrophes (e.g., pimpin’ vs. pimpin), they’re removed from the dataset. It still isn’t perfect. Hip hop is full of slang that is hard to transcribe (e.g., shorty vs. shawty), compound words (e.g., king sh–), featured vocalists, and repetitive choruses.

Some of the results are surprising. For instance, Eminem, at 4,494 unique words, used less than 100 more than Diddy. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, with their rapid fire deliveries, were fourth to last on the list.

Others aren’t quite as jarring, like the fact that members of Wu-Tang Clan, Outkast and Kool G Rap were all near the top in terms of unique words used.

Head over to Daniels’ site for the entire interactive project

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Every year XXL Magazine puts out their annual Freshman class cover, where they give fans a new crop of hip-hop talent to check for.

In the past B.o.B, Kendrick Lamar, Wiz Khalifa and Macklemore have all graced the list and this year’s cover boasts 12 fresh faces with a range of talents. Some guys have had hits and some have been building strong fanbases a bit under the radar; some are from the East Coast, some West, some Midwest, some South. But they’re all sure to get fans talking one way or another.

Get to know the guys on this year’s list below.

What do you think of this year’s selections?

CHANCE THE RAPPER
Age: 21
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Last release: Acid Rap
Random Fact: Has decided not to sign with a major label thus far.
Listen To: “Everybody’s Something”

RICH HOMIE QUAN
Age: 24
Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia
Last Release: I Promise I Will Never Stop Going In
Random Fact: “Type of Way,” his breakout single, hit No. 50 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Listen To: “Type of Way”

TY DOLLA $IGN
Age: 29
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Last Release: Beach House EP
Random Fact: Sang the chorus on YG’s 2010 single “Toot It & Boot It”
Listen To: “Paranoid”

TROY AVE
Age: 28
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Last Release: White Christmas 2
Random Fact: Troy offered a money back guarantee on his New York City: The Album LP.
Listen To: “Show Me Love”

AUGUST ALSINA
Age: 21
Hometown: New Orleans, Louisiana
Last Release: Testimony
Random Fact: His brother was killed shortly before August turned 18, which motivated him to increase his focus on music
Listen To: “I Luv This Sh–”

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