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Published online 8 December 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news051205-8
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Does rivalry rewire the rapping web?
Social networks of rappers differ from all other human networks.
The rivalry and feuds for which rap music is notorious may mean that in contrast to other human social networks, like does not attract like.
All the same, says Reginald Smith of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the rap world is not an unfriendly place.
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