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How Many Rap Songs Name Manu Ginóbili?
The Spurs guard retired in 2018, yet rappers keep dropping his name. Guess how many songs mention him, then see when they came out and how every other reader guessed.
By Samuel W. Bennett · Nov. 8, 2026
Method and data
Data: The News in Data's search of song lyrics posted to Genius for lines naming Ginóbili, counted by release year, 2004 through 2026. 214 of the 1,489 songs have no release date, so they appear in the total but not in either bar.
Your guess: stored anonymously (the game, the number and the time, nothing about you) so we can show how all readers guessed. The answer and chart come from the data above, not from your guess.
How this was made: AI helped write the code for this page. I chose the question, pulled the data and checked every number against the source.