# robbiebarrat/rapping-neural-network

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

Repository: https://github.com/robbiebarrat/rapping-neural-network
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rapping-neural-network
Language: Python
License Family: other
Topics: neural-network, lyrics, songs, rhymes, machine, learning, rap, rap-songs, generative-art, songwriting, mp3
Last push: 2023-07-23T21:35:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3590, "days_push": 1137, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1062, forks 164 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:26.192227+00:00)

## What it is
A generative art project: a recurrent neural network trained on Kanye West's discography that writes rap lyrics word by word with rhymes and flow. It was built as a high school programming club project and includes a Google Colab notebook for running it.

## Use cases
- generate rap lyrics with a neural network
- learn how RNNs generate text
- write songs in the style of a rapper
- experiment with lyric generation models
- teach a machine learning workshop with a fun example
- generate rhyming song text word by word

## When to choose
- you want a small, hackable example of character/word-level text generation
- you're learning RNNs and want a fun, well-known demo project
- you want to generate rap-style lyrics for entertainment

## When to avoid
- you need production-quality lyric generation or modern transformer models
- you need a maintained project with a license
- you need commercial use - there is no license granted

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: abandoned
- function: machine-learning, nlp, data-generation
- domain: artificial-intelligence, entertainment
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: generative-art, lyrics-generation, recurrent-neural-network, kanye-west, songwriting, experimental-ai, natural-language-processing

## Member repositories
- robbiebarrat/rapping-neural-network (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:26.192227+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:56:46.328522+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/robbiebarrat/rapping-neural-network (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:26.192227+00:00, sha 17ffe96c1479)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.