I was just wondering if anyone knows of an online corpus of rap lyrics or of African American Vernacular English. I saw in the archives that someone had asked about the AAVE, but did not see any answers. Also, if a person (not a linguist, a folklorist) were to build a corpus of rap lyrics as a project, and this person is only really interested in nouns, would it pay to tag all the parts of speech?
<br><br>D. Wells<br>Ph.D. Candidate<br>University of Louisiana at Lafayette<br>