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It may be all the words, but it is not the entire lyrical work. Intonation and cadence are incredibly important for the genre. Songs like Freeway, Kanye and Mos
by greg5green 13y ago
It may be all the words, but it is not the entire lyrical work. Intonation and cadence are incredibly important for the genre. Songs like Freeway, Kanye and Mos Def's "2 Words" do not have even close to the same impact without being heard.
Also, the entire work includes the beat. I'm guessing Kanye would argue the beat to "2 Words" was pretty important too.
- dangero 13y agoI think a pretty close comparison would be a complete transcript of a movie or television program.
- greg5green 13y agoI know a lot of the songs up there don't have much in the way of annotations, but wouldn't an album review heavy with lyrical analysis be more appropriate in this case?
- dangero 13y agoIn the case of a heavily annotated song, I agree that's a decent comparison.
- alanh 13y agoIn a weird way, it would seem that every song on RapGenius starts off nearly naked of annotation, and — it would seem — essentially illegal, but may end up heavily annotated and “transformative.” You can’t start at the end, though. One is reminded of mathematical induction. Somehow, though, I don’t expect the law to agree that because lyrics-prime is a legal, transformative work, that lesser-annotated copies are therefore also legal. IANAL
- hipsters_unite 13y agoA better comparison would be reviewing a song by uploading it to Soundcloud and then using the 'annotate at this timestamp' feature to review it. If you didn't have permission to do so (as far as I know, Soundcloud has no licences in place) then you would be infringing copyright, and a takedown could be fairly issued. This is functionally the same due to the dual-licence nature of music copyrights.