Detecting Text Reuse and Similarities between Artists in Rap Music through Visualization

Abstract

Detecting references and similarities in music lyricscan be a difficult task. Crowdsourced knowledge platforms likeGenius can help in this process through user annotatedinformation about the artist and the song but fail to includevisualizations to help users finding similarities and structures ona higher and more abstract level. We propose a prototype todetect and visualize the similarity of rap artists based on theirlyrics and monolingual alignments of song lyrics. For this, weapply word and sentence embeddings to lyrics we crawled fromGenius.