The Life of Kanye West
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| − | To use text mining to determine the explicitness/aggressiveness of Kanye's music, one has to text mine not only negative words but also positive words to get a whole sense of how Kanye is affected by his mother's | + | To use text mining to determine the explicitness/aggressiveness of Kanye's music, one has to text mine not only negative words but also positive words to get a whole sense of how Kanye is affected by his mother's death. The nature of Kanye's lyrics give a look into how Kanye copes with his mother's dead. For Voyant Tools, two corpi are used. One corpus divides Kanye's discography by album and the other corpus divides it by song. The corpus divided by album will give insight into the usage of specific words before and after Kanye's mother death. Kanye's mother died after Kanye's third album Graduation. The corpus divided by song will help pinpoint high frequency usages and allow further analysis which will give context behind the usages. |
===Bitch/Fuck=== | ===Bitch/Fuck=== | ||
These curse words tackle specifically the explicitness of his music. The thesis is that Kanye becomes more explicit after the death of his mother which occurs after his third album Graduation. Fuck is used most in his fifth album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy while Bitch is most in his sixth album Yeezus. | These curse words tackle specifically the explicitness of his music. The thesis is that Kanye becomes more explicit after the death of his mother which occurs after his third album Graduation. Fuck is used most in his fifth album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy while Bitch is most in his sixth album Yeezus. | ||
