FW: Rap Lyrics (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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The articles I posted links to discuss ohhla.com.  There are numerous
transcription errors in _Anthology of Rap_, and in many cases, these
errors show up also at ohhla -- leading to the conclusion that the
book's editors used ohhla as a source.

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> The best place I have seen for transcriptions of rap lyrics is a
website
> http://www.ohhla.com . Fans, many of whom presumably speak the same
local
> slang, send in transcriptions and other fans can and do correct them.
> Eventually, they end up with pretty decent versions. The collection is
very
> comprehensive. A person can take these and check them against the
actual
> performed songs. When trying to use them to make a corpus, then, the
problem
> becomes more of a "how do I standardize the spellings of I'ma, Ima,
I'm a"
> type stuff. This is an interesting topic, because it does make a
person
> somewhat crazy trying to make sure the lyrics are correct. On the
other
> hand, I have had students try to use the lyrics in papers they write
for me
> without any checking, and I have gotten great amusement from some of
the
> versions they've come up with.
> Darla
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> 2010/11/22 Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil>
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> > Interesting articles about the difficulty of transcribing Rap Lyrics
in
> > the new _Anthology of Rap_.
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> > http://www.slate.com/id/2272926/
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> > http://www.slate.com/id/2274223/
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> > NPR's "All Things Considered" interviewed one of editors, Adam
Bradley:
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> > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131125923
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> > and then NPR's music blog followed up on the growing controversy
about
> > transcription errors:
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2010/11/12/131269570/why-the-errors-i
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