RAPPING COMPUTER IS ALMOST READY.

DeepBeat is an algorithm for generating rap lyrics developed by Eric Malmi and his colleagues at Aalto University in Finland, and its first composition is at least coherent, if not quite club-worthy, despite a few odd oedipal overtones.

DeepBeat isn't composing new flows from scratch, however. Instead, its creators basically deconstructed what makes a good rap and identified the dopest rappers, then scraped all their lyrics from a database to feed into the algorithm.


DeepBeat takes individual lines from existing rap songs and then attempts to determine which other line from its database would make the most sense to follow it, stringing together an entire song like lyrical Legos in this fashion.

Here's one resulting song created when DeepBeat was asked to "write" something based on the keyword "love" and strung together lines from rappers including Big Daddy Kane, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Common and Li'l Wayne, among others:

For a chance at romance I would love to enhance
But everything I love has turned to a tedious task
One day we gonna have to leave our love in the past
I love my fans but no one ever puts a grasp
I love you momma I love my momma - I love you momma
And I would love to have a thing like you on my team you take care
I love it when it's sunny Sonny girl you could be my Cher
I'm in a love affair I can't share it ain't fair
Haha I'm just playin' ladies you know I love you.
I know my love is true and I know you love me too
Girl I'm down for whatever cause my love is true
This one goes to my man old dirty one love we be swigging brew
My brother I love you Be encouraged man And just know
When you done let me know cause my love make you be like WHOA
If I can't do it for the love then do it I won't
All I know is I love you too much to walk away though