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The Hip-Hop Word Count: A Searchable Rap Almanac

Event Interactive 2011
Format Solo
Organizer Tahir Hemphill – THm
Description The Hip-Hop Word Count is a searchable ethnographic database built from the lyrics of over 40,000 Hip-Hop songs from 1979 to present day. The Hip-Hop Word Count describes the technical details of most of your favorite Hip-Hop songs. This data can then be used to not only figure out interesting stats about the songs themselves, but also describe the culture behind the music. How can analyzing lyrics teach us about our culture? The Hip-Hop Word Count locks in a time and geographic location for every metaphor, simile, cultural reference, phrase, rhyme style, meme and socio-political idea used in the corpus of Hip-Hop. The Hip-Hop Word Count then converts this information into exportable visualizations, which help us to comprehend this vast set of cultural data. This data can be used to chart the migration of ideas and builds a geography of language.
Questions
Answered
  1. Who is the best rapper of all time?
  2. What does the language geography of Hip-Hop music look like?
  3. Which sneaker is more Hip-Hop Adidas? or Nike?
  4. Which city's rappers use the most monosyllabic words?
  5. Does living in higher altitudes create a natural proclivity for gangster rap?
Level Intermediate
Category Education
Tags ethnographic study, geolocation, Hip-Hop
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