Roland Fryer
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253 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 4 Feb
Roland Fryer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Now, you can imagine having research assistants sit and listen to a bunch of hip-hop and score it all day long.
AI has been much, much more helpful.
We've looked at the evolution of the types of hip-hop played on the radio over the last 40 years.
The bottom is what I call alternative, or what they call alternative or experimental hip-hop.
Think outcast.
It's a small portion, but this is the kind of hip-hop that pushes boundaries.
The second is conscious or lyrical hip-hop.
Think Kendrick Lamar, who was brilliant enough to win a Pulitzer Prize for his lyrics.
That's the next sliver.
The big part is mainstream hip-hop, the type that's played on the radio most of the time.
Think Jay-Z or, I'm a little older, Run DMC.
Now, at the top, that's where the controversy is.
That is street rap, or think Dr. Dre, Tupac.
What I want you to get from this is that that was a small portion of the overall hip-hop played on the radio for the last 40 years.
Now, of course, it increases in the last 10 years, but even still, a minority of the hip-hop played.
Now, as I said,
We have hundreds of thousands of songs we've processed, and we have the lyrics for each one of these songs.
We train the AI to grade each song in terms of how misogynistic it was, how violent the content is, how profane the language is, and the drug references.
Over the last 40 years, hip-hop music has gotten five times more misogynistic, five times more violent, five times more profane.
only two and a half times as many drug references.
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