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Overall, the Project<\/a> is showing how digital tools can deepen our understanding of Hip-Hop as culture. By going through and analyzing Jay Z and his work using, text mining, visualization, and mapping, the projects aim to find what patterns, similes, words that he chose to use in his songs, and why he did so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn #TheJayZMixtape \u2026 Rambsy uses computational approaches to explore Jay-Z\u2019s musical influences and allusions to other black artists and historical figures.\u201d This quote shows that Rambsy uses digital tools to analyze his music and how he gets great inspiration from fellow artists and figures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This visualization map shows the location of Jay Z’s album collaborations for “The Dynasty:Roc La Familia”<\/em> this shows that there were singers, rappers and producers from all across the country that came together in order to produce this album. A big part of this project revolves around collaboration, and this is a perfect example of that.
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“It is true that many people place Jay-Z among a cohort of legendary lyricists and moguls.\u00a0But I have found that my students, educators, and even rap fans who push for the genre to have widespread acceptance may still wonder what makes Jay-Z worthy of focused attention in a digital humanities literature course.” This quote encourages people to view rap more as an art and a culture and less as a single form of amusement. There is such a deeper meaning to each lyric that is produced. A majority of people just view music as entertainment but don’t get the much deeper picture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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