{"id":319,"date":"2022-07-16T13:48:13","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T13:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vishnusrinivas.com\/?page_id=319"},"modified":"2022-07-16T17:27:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T17:27:44","slug":"migos-song-generator-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vishnusrinivas.com\/?page_id=319","title":{"rendered":"Migos Song Generator Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Overview<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Migos are a rap trio from Atlanta who achieved worldwide fame with the release of their 2017 album Culture. Their music is infectious, catchy, and often repetitive. That got me thinking: how hard would it be to probabilistically generate a new Migos song?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using Java, a friend and I were able to build something fun, interesting, and hilarious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Note: some words have been creatively censored)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How it works<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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On the left are the lyrics to Migos smash hit Bad and Boujee<\/em>. The following steps will show how these lyrics were modfied and processed through multiple steps<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Generally, Migos songs are made up of a repeated chorus and one verse from each member. We repeated all of these steps separately for each member so that the verses generated for them were as authentic as possible.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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We wanted to “train” our program on every song off of Migos’ album Culture, so we first convert the lyrics of each of the songs into a format that java could easily read. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Then, using Java and a homemade part-of-speech database, we convert every lyric.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Using our part-of-speech lyrics, we are then able to generate a transition matrix. Each row represents a part of speech and every column represents the next part of speech in the sentence. Each value represents the frequency with which that transition occurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, the 4th row represents articles, and the 7th row represents nouns. In this section of lyrics, nouns follow articles 9 times, so the value for that entry in the matrix is a 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We used one frequency matrix dedicated to each member and one for the chorus.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Then, we divide every row by the sum of the row’s frequencies to get a probability transition matrix. Every entry in this matrix represents the probability that the row’s part of speech will be followed by the column’s part of speech<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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We then use a random number generator along with our probability matrix to generate a new verse’s worth of parts of speech.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Random words are then selected from the part-of-speech database we had made earlier to fill in the rest of the lyrics.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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And vo\u00edla! Complete songs of total Migos-themed gibberish!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Overview Migos are a rap trio from Atlanta who achieved worldwide fame with the release of their 2017 album Culture. Their music is infectious, catchy, and often repetitive. That got me thinking: how hard would it be to probabilistically generate a new Migos song? Using Java, a friend and I were able to build something fun, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"featured_image_src":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishnusrinivas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishnusrinivas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishnusrinivas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishnusrinivas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vishnusrinivas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vishnusrinivas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"https:\/\/vishnusrinivas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vishnusrinivas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}