While I was trying to choose some good song lyrics, I kept
going to RapGenius.com to make sure I was getting the right lyrics. When
talking about L’il Wayne in class, we mentioned how different words have
different meanings depending on how a particular discourse community views
them. We touched on how an outsider might not necessarily understand all the
references being made throughout the song, but RapGenius had a solution for
that. Once you search the lyrics you are looking for, you can move the cursor
over a particular line or phrase and a brief explanation of that line/phrase
appears! I found this extremely interesting, as well as helpful. While I am
fairly familiar with the Hip-Hop genre, I don’t know every “beef” artists have
or every slang word they invent. While RapGenius doesn’t necessarily go in and
evaluate the styles of particular lyrics, I felt like the explanations they
provided were in some ways a type of close reading. I know it definitely helped
me while I was close reading songs, and I feel like it goes to show how complex
and involved the language of the Hip-Hop community has become. It was also
something that I never really thought about before when I used their site.
Interested me at least.
Monday, July 22, 2013
The Aer is Full of Meaning (See What I Did There?)
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