VERSUZ

A Hiphop v. Literature NLP project

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

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.

- Technologies Used

• Jupyter Notebooks
• Python 3.7.1
• Pandas
• Counter
• Sumy

- Comparisons

• Ms Lauryn Hill v. Emily Bronte: <br />

<br /> 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. <img src="https://github.com/acheamponge/VERSUZ/blob/master/img/0.jpg" align="middle" height="340" width="400">

• Kanye v. Franz Kafka: <br />

<br /> Franz Kafka and Kanye West are both considered highly influential by their peers in their respective fields. <img src="https://github.com/acheamponge/VERSUZ/blob/master/img/2.jpg" align="middle" height="340" width="400">

• Drake v. Mark Twain: <br />

<br /> 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). <img src="https://github.com/acheamponge/VERSUZ/blob/master/img/1.jpg" align="middle" height="340" width="400">

• Lil Wayne v. Shakespeare: <br />

<br /> 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. <img src="https://github.com/acheamponge/VERSUZ/blob/master/img/3.JPG" align="middle" height="340" width="400">

• Nicki Minaj v. Jane Austen: <br />

<img src="https://github.com/acheamponge/VERSUZ/blob/master/img/4.jpg" align="middle" height="340" width="400">