Hip-Hop e Rap: uma análise da evolução das composições.

Abstract

Music is an art form and an instrument for expressing the culture that emerged since the beginning of human history. Over time, music evolved around the social contexts in which it was inserted, playing an important role in the construction of identities in society. Hip-hop is a cultural and artistic movement that emerged in the midst of African-American communities in the United States and has the rap music genre as one of its main pillars. Conceived in Jamaica in the 60's, rap gained more strength from the 70's onwards, mainly in the poor neighborhoods of big cities and is currently one of the most listened to music genres around the world. The objective of this work is to use Web Scraping to generate a database of musical lyrics and, through the application of concepts of Natural Language Processing and Exploratory Data Analysis, extract information about the compositions of the some of the most renowned North American artists in the genre seeking to better understand the evolution of lyrics over time, identifying which themes were most approached in each era and developing a small interactive website to demonstrate the results found.