Cool music data without AI, what a concept!
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Enjoy Black music on Bandcamp from a crowd-sourced list.
4 NYU students created a site called Dilla Data that collected information on J Dilla’s samples. Check it out.
Record catalogue website Discogs have created a database for record stores around the world called VinylHub. Whatever you might think about Discogs in the perspective of offline record stores, perhaps this will change your mind. The catalog site has launched VinylHub, a database of record stores from all over the globe. There are currently more …
Data scientist Matt Daniels has examined rappers and their lexicon and discovers who has the largest vocabulary in hip hop. It’s fair to say words play a pivotal role in hip hop music. Contexts have changed over the years but you just can’t beat a fine example of wordplay, no matter what the topic and …
Imagine a database of every word from every recorded rap song. Ever. Well, it is now a reality thanks to Hip-Hop Word Count. “Who’s the best MC of all time?” Probably the most controversial question in hip hop (depending on who you ask). People can lose friends over questions like that. While there’ll probably never …