
The second part describes Armstrong writing to her after six months of living at his own place, now being happy to live on his own.Ī video was released for the song. The first verse is Armstrong talking to his mother after three weeks of leaving her place, telling her that he's scared about being on his own. The song is sung as Billie is talking or sending a message to his mother, after moving out of her house. The song is played with the guitar tuned a half-step down, as are many of their Dookie songs. It's no place you want to walk around at night, but it's a neat warehouse where you can play basketball and stuff. It's about West Oakland, living in a warehouse with a lot of people, a bunch of artists and musicians, punks and whatever just lived all up and down, bums and junkies and thugs and gang members and stuff that just lived in that area. The house was quite broken-down but to them it became home, and this feeling is described in the song.īillie Joe Armstrong said this of the song: It is based on the band's experience moving out of their parents' houses and into an abandoned house in Oakland, California where the band members, along with a number of others, lived without paying rent. The lyrics of the song were written by Billie Joe Armstrong, and the music by Armstrong with Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool.

TF-IDF: to determine the words that characterize each hip-hop artist, we used a technique called term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf). other genres, but was only used 116 times in 26 million words. For example “lowrider” had a 255:1 ratio in hip hop vs.

These all had fewer than 1,000 occurances in the hip hop corpus. the general corpus, were still rather rare words. Some words were filtered from this list that, while indexing high in hip hop vs. We then compare that to the same math for the general corpus. For example, this is # of appearences in hip hop corpus divided by total words in hip hop corpus. Most Hip Hop: To find the words most “characteristic” of hip-hop, we computed the odds that a word appeared in the hip hop corpus vs. This included efforts to standardize spelling, remove capitalization, and apply light lemmatization. We filtered hip-hop artists by cross-referencing their primary genre on MusixMatch.įor consistency, The hip hop data was cleaned using the same script as the LyricFind corpus.

The general music corpus was formed using data from LyricFind.
