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Kendrick Lamar - Coggle Diagram

- - - - linguistic analysis of rap, with liks to features of AAE (Werner 672)
      - morphosyntactic difference to pop lyrics LYPOP (all lyrics from top ten selling albums from 200-2015) (Werner 672, 675)
      - focus on identity markers (Werner 674)
      - all lyrics from 15 mainstream American rappers from 1991-2016; from azlyrics (Werner 675)
      - 27 features of AAE (Werner 678, list Werner 694) -> in more than 70% of the cases the rappers use these features (Werner 679), also Eminem (680)
        
        there is a canon aof features in HH, but internal variability (Werner 682)
      - keyword analysis
        
        top 30 entries (Werner 682)
        
        hh associated with non-standard lexis to establish social and cultural realness (Werner 682)
        
        screenshot of words in Werner 683
        
        niggaz as marker of authenticity in HH (Werner 684)
        
        most often semantic fields: sex (bitch, fuck, ass, hoes, pussy, dick); blackness / political issues (nigga (s/z), hood), crime and drugs (weed, shots, gun, clip, glock, nine), monetary succces, profanity (shit, fuck, nigga (s/z) (Werner 685-687)
        
        normative blackness (Werner 691)
        
        no more profanity in HH in the time period (Werner 689), but profanity as non-standard form to establish realness (Werner 690)
- - - - rappers sgnify membership, role and status; especially defiance of mainstream langauge and non-whiteness (Werner 678)
        
        nevertheless audience is predominantely white -> want to address them (audience design/referee design) (Werner 679)
    - - assumption that AAE features occuring often in rap (Werner 673)
        
        styling: sometimes delibrately used to form group identity (social image); how rappers want to be seen by others (Werner 674)