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Recommended If You Like Thread - May 11, 2019 - HipHop

Recommended If You Like Thread - May 11, 2019 - HipHop

Recommended If You Like Thread - May 11, 2019

Posted: 11 May 2019 11:04 AM PDT

If you're looking for a recommendation give a description/music link/artist so that other people will know what you want.

Example: I want to hear an artist that sounds like old Kanye (you can get more specific but that's enough imo). And then someone will respond with X, Y, and Z

You can also recommend an artist/project/scene

Example: You guys should check out DJ Mustard's mixtape Ketchup RIYL (recommended if you like) post-hyphy and minimalistic west coast beats.

Remember, the point of this thread is to share music, try not to post stuff that's already really popular unless it answers someone's question.

Also the more descriptive you guys are with your posts the easier it is to help you find what you want, just stating an artists name isn't that helpful since you might only like one specific aspect of that artist's music.

Look through past posts here

ALSO please check out this thread for a list of some of the most popular recommendation requests and the suggestions provided

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Daily Discussion Thread 05/13/2019

Posted: 13 May 2019 10:04 AM PDT

Welcome to the /r/hiphopheads daily discussion thread!

This thread is for:

  • objective questions with right/wrong answers (e.g. "Does anyone know what is happening with MIXTAPE?", "What is the sample in SONG?")
  • general hip-hop discussion
  • meta posts...e.g. ideas for the sub

Thread Guidelines

  • Do not create a separate self post for these types of discussions outside of this thread - if you do, your post will be removed, as stated in the guidelines.

  • Please be helpful and friendly.

  • If a question has been asked many times before, provide a link to a thread that contains the answer.

Weekly/Monthly Threads

Other ways to interact

There are a number of other ways to interact with other members of HHH:

New to /r/hiphopheads or hip-hop in general?

Check out these:

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Nardwuar vs. Lil Uzi Vert (2019)

Posted: 13 May 2019 01:40 PM PDT

J.I.D brought out YBN Cordae, ASAP Ferg, Joey Badass, Bas, and J Cole at tonight’s concert in Irving Plaza.

Posted: 13 May 2019 08:14 PM PDT

Probably one of the craziest nights of my life.

Shit was like a festival.. thank you JID.

Permanent fan of this guy for life.

EDIT: heres a vid of Cole coming out for Off Deez - https://youtu.be/Vb23kqb8qKI ... credit to /u/zielske

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Playboi Carti - Molly : No Stylist

Posted: 13 May 2019 05:09 PM PDT

Nardwuar vs. Lil Nas X

Posted: 13 May 2019 10:25 PM PDT

Logic announces the Confessions of a Dangerous Mind tour with J.I.D and YBN Cordae

Posted: 13 May 2019 09:13 AM PDT

Injury Reserve tracklist leaked

Posted: 13 May 2019 12:21 PM PDT

Finally received my cookinsoul x DOOM XMAS LP, Couldn't figure out why the ornament on the tree was quasitmoto until I tried 45 rpm

Posted: 13 May 2019 09:06 PM PDT

[LEAK] Lil Uzi Vert - Make It Back

Posted: 13 May 2019 06:28 PM PDT

Method Man Goes Undercover on Reddit, Twitter and YouTube

Posted: 13 May 2019 09:03 AM PDT

[FRESH] GoldLink - Zulu Screams (feat. Maleek Berry & Bibi Bourelly)

Posted: 13 May 2019 09:02 AM PDT

[OC] Analyzing TA13OO with Sentiment Analysis

Posted: 13 May 2019 03:45 AM PDT

Denzel Curry. Denny Cascade. Zeltron 6 Billion. The Black Metal Terrorist.

A man of many names and talents, Denzel Curry is a rapper from Carol City, Florida who has been making some of the most head-banging yet simultaneously nuanced hip-hop out there for a better part of the last decade.

Though most people know him as the guy who rapped fast to kids flipping water bottles, Curry's albums present an artist with much more musical depth and variation than the memes tied to him would suggest. To bring to light how complete an artist Curry is, we wanted to examine his lyrics with text mining methods to uncover specific lyrical insights.

Methodology

The data for this project was taken from genius.com. To scrape the lyrics, we used the "genius" package in R, which allows one to get all the lyrics of any song or album for any artist. For this portion of our project, we used the lyrics from TA13OO.

When humans read text, we often try to think of its emotional intent, allowing us to classify the general mood and tone of the writing. Sentiment analysis has the same objective, as it attempts to find the underlying sentiments of a certain chunk of text.

Often, sentiment analysis marks text by using dictionaries. Dictionaries such as AFINN, bing and nrc give either sentiment scores for certain words or categorize words into different sentiments. Using these, we often assign scores or sentiments to each word in a body of text and either take the sum of our sentiments or calculate scores to develop quantitative measures of sentiments. For our project, we used the nrc lexical from the "tidytext" package in R, which is a 2-column dataframe of 6468 unique words and the sentiments that they convey: positive, negative, anger, anticipation, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise, and trust.

To prepare our data for analysis, we implemented a natural language processing concept known as lemmatizing. Lemmatizing involves converting a word to its root word, or 'lemma'; for example, words such as "playing" and "played" simply become "play". This makes it easy for our NLP dictionary to limit our analysis to one variation of a given word, since different forms of a word generally carry the same sentiment.

In order to ready our scraped lyrics for sentiment analysis, we parsed the line-by-line lyrics into separate words on each row. Then, we inner-joined our dataframe of lyrics with the nrc lexical. The output was a data frame with each word in the lyrics and its associated sentiment. We condensed the data and added up the counts for sentiments by song, thus giving us sentiment counts for each of the ten sentiments for all songs.

Welcome to the Darker Side of Taboo

Last year, Curry released a riveting 13-track personal odyssey in TA13OO. One of the best hip-hop albums of the decade thus far, TA13OO boasts an incredibly wide range of hip-hop sensibilities; from braggadocious, trunk-knocking trap bangers to relatable, introspective ballads, the album features a trove of material that almost any music fan could find enjoyment in.

One interesting aspect that accentuates the variety of material on the album is the concept that Curry focused the album around. He parsed and released the album in three acts: Light, Gray and Dark. The music starts out relatively upbeat and vibrant in the leading Light act. As we progress through the album, the music and lyrics both get increasingly dark and despondent, culminating in a furious storm of an ending. While the album as a whole has a predominantly melancholic tone, it evolves musically and lyrically through the acts to develop its concept.

We thought it would be particularly interesting to analyze this album through the lens of sentiment analysis, since the album is largely centered on a variety of emotions. We wanted to know if analytical methods of text analysis could give us an interesting point of view on the music at hand. Thus, we grouped the songs in TA13OO by act and examined sentiment distributions through the album.

Light Act

https://imgur.com/a/RqVJKws

As evidenced by the plot, the Light act has a fairly even spread of emotions throughout. One might be surprised to observe that seemingly negative emotions such as negativity itself, anger and fear match and even outrank seemingly positive emotions such as positivity itself, joy and trust. However, as previously mentioned, the album has undercurrents of gloom throughout. Take the opening track, "Taboo", for example; though this song opens the Light act, the subject matter is intensely sorrowful, as he calmly sings to a victim of molestation, perhaps in an attempt to cope with some personal demons. Some tracks, such as "Black Balloons", exemplify the balanced nature of this act of the album. On this song, Curry and GoldLink mull over the depressive thoughts that hang over their heads in the form of black balloons. Though the song deals with many sinister emotions, the ultimate message of the song is one of perseverance:

Soon, black balloons pop / Let it be the day the pain stops.

Following these songs, the Light act features the most bright material on the album. Specifically, the song "Cash Maniac" has the highest sentiment counts on the entire album for anticipation, joy, positivity and trust, which makes sense as this song features Curry frivolously celebrating all of the money he has earned thus far. This continues onto the next track "Sumo", where Curry transitions to brashly bragging about his wealth while still keeping the mood upbeat on this aggressive hit of a song.

Gray Act

https://imgur.com/a/Gu1YSIg

Moving into the Gray side, there is a distinct spike in many negative sentiments. Sentiment counts for disgust, fear and negativity nearly double relative to those in the Light act. In terms of negativity, three of the five most negative songs by count of negative words fall in this act of the album. At the start of the Gray act, we get "Super Saiyan Superman" a distinctively ethereal yet similarly boastful banger to the previous "Sumo". Then, Curry brings "Switch It Up" and "Mad I Got It", which both touch on a looming sense of paranoia that pervades through Curry's entire discography. He fears people whom he perceives as his real friends turning on him on "Switch It Up", and goes so far as to tell a story of a former friend holding him at gunpoint due to jealousy of his success and riches on "Mad I Got It". The next two songs paint different shades of hopelessness in the album in the form of social commentary. "Sirens" bluntly addresses the political climate of the country with respect to issues such as police brutality and Donald Trump, while "Clout Cobain" sharply addresses the destructive nature of the clout-chasing circus that many young rappers in the music industry unfortunately find themselves embroiled in. According to sentiment counts, "Sirens" ranks in the top three songs in anger and fear among the whole album, and "Clout Cobain" ranks in the top four songs in negativity.

Dark Act

https://imgur.com/a/GLtRhfe

Finally, we reach the Dark act, which is by far the most vitriolic of the album. Thus far, the album has steadily mounted in dark emotions, which results in the explosion of rage that is this act of the album. Relative to the previous acts, sentiments such as anticipation, joy, positivity and trust are far lower than anger, disgust, fear, negativity, and sadness. The opener to the Dark act "The Blackest Balloon" continues some of the themes of the previous songs with a significantly sharper edge, containing material on Curry's late brother haunting him and the untimely death of Lil Peep. "Percs" builds on these previous tracks from a unique angle, as Curry furiously differentiates himself from his peers, specifically in his opposition to recreational use of pills such as percocets and to unintelligible, mumbled flows. After these tracks, we reach the nastiest song on the whole album: "Vengeance". By sentiment counts, this song leads the album in anger, disgust, fear, negativity and sadness; quite the violent song, as the title suggests. This song definitely fits the bill that our sentiment analysis tags it with, as Curry, JPEGMAFIA and ZillaKami all deliver murderous verses with junkyard flows that culminate into a beautifully vicious package, matched with an equally enjoyably reprehensible video. Finally, the album ends on "Black Metal Terrorist", an absolute barrage of aggressive rhymes revolving around Curry trailblazing his path of greatness through other rappers.

Conclusions

Here are all sentiment counts per act of the album.

Overall, we feel that our sentiment analysis confirmed and enhanced our understanding of the concept of Curry's album. As the acts of the albums got darker, so did the tone of the music, as we can confirm both by listening closely and our sentiment analysis. Unfortunately, there were some difficulties that we did our best to mitigate but were still prevalent. Unigram analysis often does not account for the context of a single word within the frame of a sentence. In the nrc lexical, the word "cash" is tagged as anger, anticipation, fear, joy, positivity and trust. The problem here, in the framework of our project, was that it initially classified "Cash Maniac", unequivocally the most jubilant song on the album, as an angry and fearful one because of the sheer number of times the word "cash" is used in the song. Though we were able to spot this and alter the sentiment counts for that specific song, similar issues might have occurred in our analysis without our knowledge.

Thus, a next step might be to consider analyzing the lyrics using n-grams to gauge our sentiments more accurately. Still, we have something quite fascinating here, as even a relatively rudimentary analysis of the data fully supports our ear-test as music fans, showing us the power of sentiment analysis.

One of the punchier lines on TA1300 comes from "Switch It Up", where Curry says:

They only know Denzel Curry / But they really don't know Denzel!

Hopefully, we now have a better understanding of who he is, and how he works with and incorporates certain emotions in his music.

If you would like to read our full article, including more analysis on Curry's discography as a whole, you can check it out here.

If you would like to see our code, you can check it out here..

We would like to acknowledge two sources which helped us immensely:

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Ski Mask the Slump God - Nationwide

Posted: 13 May 2019 11:27 AM PDT

Tierra Whack HOT freestyle with Westwood

Posted: 13 May 2019 06:57 AM PDT

Comethazine announces new album Bawskee 3.5 coming 21st June

Posted: 13 May 2019 07:16 AM PDT

Watch FKA twigs Bring Out ASAP Rocky and Play New Songs

Posted: 13 May 2019 07:25 AM PDT

Proof - Forgive Me ft. 50 Cent

Posted: 13 May 2019 07:15 AM PDT

SpaceGhostPurrp Rolling Loud Full Set

Posted: 13 May 2019 11:23 AM PDT

Nardwuar vs. Lil Nas X

Posted: 13 May 2019 10:27 PM PDT

Colby O'Donis (ft. Akon) - What You Got

Posted: 13 May 2019 07:51 PM PDT

[OC] Measuring Musical Sampling Impact Through Network Analysis

Posted: 13 May 2019 10:39 AM PDT

Seeing as how hip-hop artists ushered in sampling as an artform, I thought this research I performed over the course of the last few months might be of interest to HHH readers.

Here is a link to a summary of my findings but I will also post a short summary as text below. Please read the full paper for a proper analysis of all the findings if you're interested!

What is musical sampling and why is it interesting? Musical sampling influence has only recently been studied through network structures through the basic analysis of artist-artist sampling relationships. In this piece of research, we integrate the use of additional properties of music sampling (such as genre, time period, and audio element sampled) to investigate patterns of influence in the musical community at large.

How do we investigate musical sampling using graph theory? Using the WhoSampled dataset and NetworkX for Python, we investigate statistical metrics such as the most-sampled artists songs as well as the trend for musical sampling over time. We also take a more nuanced look at "influence" by providing a variety of graph centrality measurements for determining the influence of a node (representing an artist) on other nodes.

What were the results of the research? This analysis resulted in a greater understanding of musical influence certain artists and genres had over other heavily-sampling artists and genres over time. The most influential genre was found to be Funk/Soul/Disco while the most influential artist of all time was James Brown. However, Hip-Hop/R&B music has unsurprisingly become more sampled than all other genres in recent time periods. In addition, artists from all genres tended to sample from others within their own genre, essentially displaying strong intra-genre influences.

Where can I find the most pivotal details? The full paper can be found here.

The slide deck for a quick summary can be found here.

The high-resolution poster can be found here.

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Playboi Carti performs Pissy Pamper/Kid Cudi at Rolling Loud

Posted: 12 May 2019 11:44 PM PDT

Injury Reserve - S On Ya Chest

Posted: 13 May 2019 02:23 AM PDT

Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats - Sell Out

Posted: 13 May 2019 08:08 AM PDT

[FRESH ALBUM] Chris Crack - Never Hated I Just Waited

Posted: 13 May 2019 03:40 PM PDT

Raury - God's Whisper

Posted: 13 May 2019 09:24 PM PDT
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