In rap music,“flow” refers to a rapper's delivery of the lyrics. This dissertation is a systematic
analysis of three main parameters of flow: rhythm, rhyme, and pitch. The first chapter reviews …

To date, scholars have engaged the rhythm of the rapping voice far more often than its pitch.
I detail the construction of a corpus of pitch features of “post-Golden Era” emcees. Using …

This article examines the structural and semiotic functions of vocables in rap music.
Analytical studies of the rapping voice have predominantly focused on lyrics, rhyme, accent …

[0.1] Corpus studies are powerful tools for analysis due to their ability to examine trends
across a relevant body of work. Traditional approaches to music corpus development …

The notion of a musical repertoire's" sound" is frequently evoked in journalism and
scholarship, but what parameters comprise such a sound? This question is addressed …

The best-known track on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly,“Alright” has come to be
regarded as a protest anthem, fueled by Lamar's charged performances of the song at the …

This article is a study of the ways in which collaboration is signaled in the delivery of rap
lyrics. I begin by describing the importance and prevalence of unified flow in music released …

The last two decades have witnessed a dramatic rise in dissertations, theses, and other
academic publications exploring hip-hop music, while college courses on hip-hop history …

Beginning in the late 1980s, North American hip-hop music grew into a dominant cultural
force. Regional scenes boasted their own MCs (rappers) whose individual musical styles …

MCs (rappers) such as Cardi B, Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Big Sean and Young Thug use
triplet rhythms in their rapping, a practice that is known as triplet flow. This paper argues that …