Nationality American Name Tahir Hemphill | Role Artist | |
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Born May 14, 1972 (age 52) ( 1972-05-14 ) New York, New York U.S. Known for Creative technologyMultimedia artPhotographySculpture Education | ||
Tahir hemphill presents at the 2013 creative capital artist retreat
Tahir Hemphill (born May 14, 1972) is an African-American multimedia artist, scientist and designer of the Hip Hop Word Count database.
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- Tahir hemphill presents at the 2013 creative capital artist retreat
- Tahir hemphill champagne always stains my silk
- Early life
- Hip Hop Word Count database
- Fellowships grants etc
- Exhibitions
- Works and publications
- References
Tahir hemphill champagne always stains my silk
Early life
Hemphill grew up in New York City, in the Lower East Side neighborhood. He graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School with a Regents diploma concentration in Electrical Engineering.
Hemphill graduated from Morehouse College with a B.A. in Spanish. He has a certificate in Strategic Planning from Miami Ad School. He has a master's degree in Communications Design which he received from Pratt Institute.
Hip Hop Word Count database
Hemphill created an ethnographic database of hip hop lyrics covering the period from 1979 to the present. In the database, assets are geotagged and dated according to album release dates. Hemphill calls this data a geography of language in the universe of hip hop. Hemphill faceted the information with analysis of word count, number of syllables per word, number of letters per word, polysyllabic words, as well as an education and audience reading level rating. Hemphill used Simplified Measure of Gobbledygook ("SMOG") and Flesch–Kincaid readability tests (created by plain English advocate Rudolf Flesch) to evaluate reading levels.