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https://github.com/robbiebarrat/rapping-neural-network

Rap song writing recurrent neural network trained on Kanye West's entire discography
https://github.com/robbiebarrat/rapping-neural-network

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Rap song writing recurrent neural network trained on Kanye West's entire discography

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# Rapping-neural-network

This is a generative art project I made for my high school's programming club - which ~I'm the president/founder of~ I was the president/founder of until I graduated.



It's a neural network that has been trained on Kanye West's discography, and can use any lyrics you feed it and write a new song *word by word* that rhymes and has a flow (to an extent).



Quartz did a really nice profile on me and the program here; https://qz.com/920091/a-west-virginia-teen-taught-himself-how-to-build-a-rapping-ai-using-kanye-west-lyrics/



## UPDATE: Here's a Google Colab notebook that runs the project: https://goo.gl/GHSWzZ



# Let's hear something it made

Okay... Here's a song it wrote *word by word* using kanye's discography - excuse the vulgarities, the neural network wrote it and not me.

https://soundcloud.com/rapping_neural_network/networks-with-attitude



# Lyrics to above song



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Bust a playa with the kids I never had



All his time, all he had, all he had, all he had



Most you rappers don't even stop to get the most press kit



Playas is jealous cause we got the whole city lit



But without it I'd be worried if they playing that bullshit



You wanna complain about the nights even wilder



I swear to God I hope you have got to hear



I'll touch every curve of your favorite author



No more wasting time, you can't roam without Caesar



Back when Gucci was the best summer ever



Before Cam got the hundred with the peer pressure



She walking around looking like Herve Leger



So next time I'm in between but way more fresher



And they say you never know, never never NEVER



...



You the number one I'mma beat my brother



And I know a sign when I heard it's the magic hour



Get Olga Kurylenko, tell her to do better



That know we get them hammers, go on, call the lawyer



But still supported me when I get richer



This my first pair of shoes, I made the Bulls play better



Or use my arrogance as a wholesaler



Prince Williams ain't do it can't be your damn liar



You say I dress white, but my broad way thicker



If I be Don C, we got that, that thing clear



I dropped out of your body like a wrestler



I can't believe I'm back to a cold killer



Lady Eloise I need another lover



He loved Jesus when he off the power



So I pour the potion, so we gone dress whiter



Old folks talking bout Linda, from last September



Might spend 50 racks on my life like a fucking loser



...



He don't even stop to get this difficult



She told me that I stayed at home with my own vault



She's so precious with the space for the safe belt



Girl he had the strangest feeling lately



Fuck you playa I know it's especially



But let some black people to think logically



Fire Marshall said I could give you this feeling



And wrote hooks about slaves that the youth is missing



I know this part right here, history in the ring



Well I guess she was messin wit me when I'm cumming



I'm way better than some head on a chain gang



On a scale of this, and now you doing your thang



Y'all I know you're living your life so exciting



Started a little blog just to say nothing



I'mma need a fix, girl you was celebrating



Mayonnaise colored Benz I get my engine revving



And my chick in that old lady on Boomerang



Wifey gonna kill me, I do a gangbang



I put an angel in your life so exciting



Right when I do it right if you was celebrating



I was in Benzes, I was still at Burger King



It feel like this but playas don't know what you're drinking



Really Doe told you come on homie they wilding



I swear this right here, feel free to sing along



Shoulda known that was gonna come as it's good I'm young



...



These playas read the pimp manual, but I just want your girl you was clubbin'



First I spin around and vomit, then I made it from the day you just pretendin'



But I bet you they respect the name Kanye from the heart, y'all all frontin'



We in the same thing like a fat trainer takin a bite or somethin



Abbey Lee too, I'm a jerk, you need that happy beginnin', middle and endin'



That mean I forgot better shit than you ever heard about all this name callin'



Cause I can never be as laid back as this flow end, I'mma let Mos begin



And I bet you they respect the name Kanye from the heart, y'all all frontin'



...



My mama used to stay recession free



All my friends says implants is a beat from Ye



I want is what I do, act more stupidly



With no response make you wait longer than A.C.



Loud as a shorty I looked up to this degree



Young Walt Disney, I'ma tell you once ting



Straight to jail, yo, in a Bentley shining



Why you trying to make it just ring and ring



Now why would I listen to T-Pain and sing



Everything I throw them all laughing



So glad I ain't gotta borrow nothing



So I promised her everything



I've been waiting on this rocket, Yao Ming



I don't drink the drama that your dude bring



Kanye West is the making of a romantic



Play strings for the World's game, this is tragic



...and this is the making of a romantic



I done wore designers I won't get specific



The layers to my roots, I'm like a paraplegic



Come on, let's take a lot more than the music



I mean, after all the way we was magic



...



## Setup



Install (with python 2.x)



    pip install -U -r requirements.txt 



## Usage



### See [documented_model.py](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbiebarrat/rapping-neural-network/master/documented_model.py) for notes as python comments.



### Data preperation

**If you'd like to use Kanye's lyrics - skip this section**

`Lyrics.txt` comes with Kanye's entire discography in it. You can either use this, or fill it with other lyrics.



Guide to using your own lyrics with `lyrics.txt`

* Avoid including things like "[bridge]" or "[intro]" 



* Seperate each line by a newline



* Avoid non alphanumeric characters (besides basic punctuation)



* You don't have to retype everything - just copy and paste from some lyrics website



### Training

**Skip this part if you are using the default kanye lines**



* In `model.py`, change the variable `artist` to the name of the new artist you've used in `lyrics.txt`



* In `model.py`, change the variable `train_mode` to `True`



* Run the program with `python model.py`, and allow training to finish.



### Generating raps



* In `model.py`, if you've trained a new network, the variable `train_mode` will be `True`, set this back to `False`



* Run the program with `python model.py`



* The rap will be written to the output of your terminal, and also to a file called `neural_rap.txt`



### Performing raps



* speech.py will "rap" the generated songs with a text to speech over a generic rap beat (`beat.mp3`), just run `python speech.py`



## How it works



Alright, so basically a markov chain will look at the lyrics you entered and generate new lines. Then, it feeds this to a recurrent neural net that will generate a sequence of tuples in the format of 



    (desired rhyme, desired count of syllables)



The program will then sift through the lines the markov chain generated, and match the lines to their corresponding tuples. The result is the rap.



# Future goals:



1. Use lyrebird.ai to have it rap in Kanye's voice... I'll probably have to hire a Kanye voice impersonator to supply me with 5 minutes of audio to train the net with though... Either that or jailbreak an old iPod and use it to do text to speech with Siri's voice.



2. Bring back the seperate 'verses' and appropriate pauses that the first version had.



3. Generative rap beats that it can rap over.



Once I get the lyrebird.ai thing working where it can rap and imitate someone's voice, I really want to do some type of 'album' where there's a separate track on it for each really popular dead rapper (The 90's had some really good ones, Notorious B.I.G., Big L, etc.) - where each track would have the network rapping with lyrics / flow in the style of the said rapper, and imitating their voice with lyrebird's network (admit it, the current text to speech I have is pretty trash). Kind of like an AI resurrection of dead rappers...