FW: Rap Lyrics (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Darla Wells]

Like I said, you have to check them with the actual performance. I wonder if
they actually did that.
Darla

2010/11/22 Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>

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> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Darla Wells <lethe9 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > The best place I have seen for transcriptions of rap lyrics is a website
> > http://www.ohhla.com .
>
> Agreed, but if you read up on the controversy, you'll see that many of
> the transcription errors in The Anthology of Rap stem from an
> over-reliance on OHHLA.
>
>
> > 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
> >
> > 2010/11/22 Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil>
> >
> > >
> > > Interesting articles about the difficulty of transcribing Rap Lyrics in
> > > the new _Anthology of Rap_.
> > >
> > > http://www.slate.com/id/2272926/
> > >
> > >
> > > http://www.slate.com/id/2274223/
> > >
> > >
> > > NPR's "All Things Considered" interviewed one of editors, Adam Bradley:
> > >
> > > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131125923
> > >
> > >
> > > and then NPR's music blog followed up on the growing controversy about
> > > transcription errors:
> > >
> > >
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2010/11/12/131269570/why-the-errors-in-the-anthology-of-rap-matter
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