How do singers, especially lyrically dense rappers, memorize dozens or even triple digit number of songs?

Question

I’m notoriously bad at memorizing lyrics so it’s mind boggling to me.

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Answer 1

I saw the Mountain Goats in concert (great show, super personable, fantastic rapport with the audience) and they were taking requests from the audience but y’know the Mountain Goats have been around for thirty years and they have 21 studio albums. Half the time the audience would request something and they would just be like “oh yeah we don’t remember that one.” One song they started playing and Darnielle realized he only remembered the first verse and made the rest of it up.