The main motivation for this project is to demonstrate using NLP that Hip-Hop is a form of literature and rap artists are literary geniuses.
Data of Lyrics from the hip-hop artists was scraped from Genius, Data of the novels from the writters was scraped from the Guttenberg Project and other online sources.
- Jupyter Notebooks
- Python 3.7.1
- Pandas
- Counter
- Sumy
- Ms Lauryn Hill v. Emily Bronte:
Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" and Ms. Lauryn Hill's "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" are considered classics in their respective fields. Again Ms. Lauryn was part of the talented hip-hop group Fugees and Emily can be said to be part of the talented sister group the Bronte sisters.
- Kanye v. Franz Kafka:
Franz Kafka and Kanye West are both considered highly influential by their peers in their respective fields.
- Drake v. Mark Twain:
Drake and Twain are arguably artistic voices of their generations and have defined their art forms in their respective places of origin. ( you can’t really think of American literature without Twain and you can’t really think of Canadian rap music without Drake).
- Lil Wayne v. Shakespeare:
Lil Wayne and Shakespeare are very prolific in their respective fields. Lil Wayne has 168 billboard hot 100 entries and Shakespeare is believed to have written ~37 plays.
- Nicki Minaj v. Jane Austen: