I joined the lyrics with the Bing lexicon, a list of words which are deemed by humans as either positive or negative, and subtracted the negative words from the positive ones to get a general measure of lyrical sentiment. In order to extract the lyrics from all of Drake's individual albums, I scraped his tracklists from the Genius API.

Did his lyrics become more positive or more negative as he became more successful? How does sentiment compare to Drake's record sales? How common is profanity in his music as his career progresses? I think that his music overall will prove to be more positive now than when he dropped his first album in 2008. He is one of the few rappers that has been able to bridge the gap between underground hype and mainstream commercial success.įor this project, I wanted to examine Drake's lyrical and musical evolution throughout the years. He is currently ranked number one on Spotify's monthly listeners list and his latest album, 'More Life', reached number one on the Billboard top 200 with ease. Aubrey Graham, aka Drake, is arguably one of the greatest rappers of all time.

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