“…Noteworthy exceptions to this are (i) the publications by Schneider and colleagues based on the Songkorpus (see Section 2), in which aspects such as the position of lyrics on a written-spoken/formal-informal cline (Schneider, 2022a; see also Broll & Schneider, this issue), the discursive representation of socially salient topics in lyrics (Schneider et al, 2022), or the occurrence of idioms (Amin et al, 2021) are treated, and (ii) sociolinguistic work on German rap (e.g. Androutsopoulos, 2003;Bohmann, 2010;Wiemeyer & Schaub, 2018), occasionally also involving a contrastive German-English perspective (Lüdtke, 2006). 1…”