Hip hop

Happy Birthday: The Best Reference for Each Numbered Age in Rap Music

Every once in a while, I get an idea for a new rap-based blog post. This has been on my mind for a long time. Back when I was a prolific social media user, I’d find myself subconsciously storing rap

I’ve spent the majority of my life listening to rap music. I’ve spent roughly the same amount of time analyzing my preferences for music relative to critical and scholarly assessment. Aside from my forays in the Youtube comments sections of 2007, it’s been

Having Fun with Rap Lyrics – An Abstract

I’ve spent the past year thinking about rap lyrics. Matt Daniels’ The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop remains as the pinnacle of pop culture meets computer science and was the inspiration behind my development of Cypher, a program that calculates

Calculating Rap Music Clarity Using Cypher

I first explored the topic of rap music clarity over the summer. By clarity, I mean how easy it is to transcribe lyrics while listening to a song. Slow songs with simple lyrics and familiar enunciation are easy to transcribe. Kendrick Lamar’s

I love rap music. Chances are, you do too. With the popularization of Genius, we now have a crowdsourced library of not only song lyrics, but also the meaning behind those lyrics sometimes provided by the artists themselves. This is