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December 5, 2010 Written by Tahero at 6:05 pm · Filed under Hip Hop Word Count, Social Studies
Here are my notes from Rap Research Group #1.
Steel Sharpens Steel
Sam reminded us of Puffy’s influence on removing criticism - a requisite tool for creativity - from the hands of the Rap community. In a post Hate Me Now world, criticism became hate. If you don’t like my song you are no longer a critic that I must answer to but you are a hater that will be dismissed. Is the tradition of a peer review process now dead?
Raafi talked about his appreciation of the new wildly iterative production process in Hip-Hop. The technical capability to make and distribute songs with no A&R gate keepers. Songs that get feedback only after their release.
Algorithm Rap
Hank pointed out of the power of internet metrics and how for the first time our clicks may effect the creativity within Rap. If we repeatedly click to see car crashes (Antoine Dodson, 50 Tyson & Eli Porter) car crashes are what will be programmed on cable, signed by record companies and scientifically proven by Billboard’s Social 50 as the next new thing in Hip-Hop.
An Observation Of A Cultural Trend
A great deal of young Black male power in the U.S. of A has been sourced from from the front: Jump Off Our Jocks! / I Know That They Are On The Tip. / Who? My Dick!
In the 2000’s that area of attention has shifted to the rear: Pants On The Floor / Tight Sag / Skinny Jeans.
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November 30, 2010 Written by Tahero at 11:23 pm · Filed under Hip Hop Word Count, Music Theory, NYC Events, Social Studies
As part of The Hip-Hop Word Count project, Tahir Hemphill hosts a series of Rap Research Groups which make for lively and casually moderated discussions between Rap enthusiasts, historians, creative technologists, cultural critics, linguists, teachers, MC’s and academics. The schedule is as follows:
December 1: Masculinity. Sam Han - On the Looming Crisis of Masculinity in Hip Hop…and why it’s a good thing http://is.gd/h5u8V
December 15: Religion. Reverend Sekou - Is Hip-Hop Just A Euphemism For A New Religion?
January 5: Migratory Aesthetics. Zuhirah Khaldun - The Blueprint: An Inner City Model For International Hip-Hop
January 26: Cultural Analysis. Tahir Hemphill - The (Im)possibility of Quantifying Art & Metaphor in Rap
October 28, 2010 Written by admin at 5:46 pm · Filed under AIR, Hip Hop Word Count, Social Studies
Text Correlation Tool: Nas Versus Jay / Ether Versus The Takeover. Shout to Jer Thorp for the code.
Text Correlation Tool: Nas Versus Jay / Ether Versus The Takeover from Staple Crops on Vimeo.
October 17, 2010 Written by admin at 4:58 pm · Filed under AIR, Hip Hop Word Count, NYC Events, Social Studies
October 12, 2010 Written by Tahero at 2:56 pm · Filed under AIR, Hip Hop Word Count, Social Studies
October 8, 2010 Written by admin at 2:22 pm · Filed under AIR, Hip Hop Word Count, NYC Events, Social Studies
View Hip-Hop Tourette’s in a larger map
Hip-Hop Tourette’s is a learned neuropsychiatric disorder with onset in adulthood, characterized by multiple physical and vocal tics. After significant years spent listening to Rap music these tics often times include coprolalia involving rap lyric references in response to conversation and changes in environment. Hip-Hop Tourette’s re-contexualizes New York City with Rap lyrics.
Conflux is the annual New York festival for contemporary psychogeography, the investigation of everyday urban life through emerging artistic, technological and social practice.
August 11, 2010 Written by Tahero at 11:19 am · Filed under AIR, Creative Enterprise, Hip Hop Word Count, Social Studies
Our Proposal The Hip-Hop Word Count: A Searchable Rap Almanac was accepted into the 2011 SXSW PanelPicker! Vote for it multiple times daily until August 27th; so we can present at SXSW. Here is the link: http://bit.ly/hhwcxsxsw
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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 data into explorable visualisations 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.
August 9, 2010 Written by Tahero at 1:30 pm · Filed under Hip Hop Word Count, Social Studies, Tumblr
I recently used my morning commute to the studio to write down a list of acronyms found in Rap music. The first 3 people to send a correct list of what the acronyms stand for get a STCR gift in the mail. Shout out to @jeffdtaylor, @Combat_Jack, @meaganshea, @Gudtyme @MattyHo & @minchovega for adding on.
L.A.S.M.
T.H.U.G.L.I.F.E.
R.A.W.
D.M.C.
F.A.Y.B.A.N.
B.O.N.E.
R.B.G.
T.R.O.Y.
B.B.E.
U.N.I.T.Y.
N.W.A.
B.W.P.
A.L.L.A.H.
K.O.S.
G.O.D.
B.I.G.
B.M.W.
B.I.B.L.E.
B.D.P.
C.N.N.
E.P.M.D.
L.O.N.S.
L.P.
I.M.P.
P.E.
U.G.K.
M.J.G.
T.I.
N.E.R.D.
B.O.B.
B.Y.S.
Rebel I.N.S.
K.I.M.
K.R.S.O.N.E.
H.E.R.
Goodie M.O.B.
D.A.I.S.Y. Age
R.O.C.
D.I.T.C.
W.U.T.A.N.G.
M.O.P.
July 6, 2010 Written by admin at 4:13 pm · Filed under AIR, Hip Hop Word Count, Social Studies
I used a new free and open-source data visualization application called Protovis to make interactive parallel coordinate graphs of the entire catalogs of 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Biggie & Nas through the Hip-Hop Word Count analysis. In honor of his Bornday 50’s is posted here.
June 30, 2010 Written by admin at 10:14 am · Filed under AIR, Hip Hop Word Count, Music Theory, Social Studies
I used a new free and open-source data visualization application called Protovis to make interactive parallel coordinate graphs of the entire catalogs of 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Biggie & Nas through the Hip-Hop Word Count analysis. Jay-Z’s is posted here.
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