Big Pimpin’ meets Big Data in a unique Jay Z class at UTA

By Chris Vognar

April 29, 2016

URL: https://www.dallasnews.com/arts-entertainment/music/2016/04/29/big-pimpin-meets-big-data-in-a-unique-jay-z-class-at-uta/

Call it “Big Pimpin'” meets Big Data. In analyzing the stats, Kenton Rambsy and his students seek to find the quantifiable elements of Jay’s work, from the number of slant rhymes in his lyrics to the geographic locale of the artists he samples. It’s a digital humanities course with a hip-hop flavor.