Name: 饒舌的真相大公開！ | Roland Fryer | TED (In Defense of Hip-Hop | Roland Fryer | TED)
Uploaded: 2026-03-06T21:43:35.000Z
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Do you remember where you were when you first heard the Sugar Hill Gang?

你還記得第一次聽到 Sugar Hill Gang 的時候在哪裡嗎？

me the groove and my friends were gonna try to move your feet.

我喜歡這個節奏，我朋友和我準備要讓你動起來。

我第一次聽到那首歌，大概是 1985 年。

It was a block party in Daytona Beach, Florida, and

那是在佛羅裡達州戴通納海灘的一個派對，

people were moving in ways I'd never seen before.

Now, I'm not talking about my friend Manman.

現在，我說的不是我的朋友 Manman。

她做的動作我看了之後忘不掉。

That was 40 years ago, and hip hop has taken over.

那是 40 年前的事了，而嘻哈已經席捲全球。

It is the most popular music genre in the world, particularly among young people.

它是世界上最受歡迎的音樂類型，尤其是在年輕人之間。

It has its effect on music, on language, on.

對服裝、對社群媒體都有影響。

Even to a data nerd like me is immeasurable.

即使對我這樣的數據宅男來說，影響也是無法衡量的。

但不知怎麼的，這些都很明顯，對吧？

It didn't really dawn on me until a few months ago.

And I went to New York for the live ride.

我去了紐約參加現場騎行活動。

I peep the person next to me, and her handle is ride or die 2000.

我瞄了一眼旁邊的人，她的名字是 ride or die 2000。

And they get us up out of our saddles 35 minutes in.

然後在 35 分鐘的時候，他們要我們站起來騎。

And on beat, she gets up out of the saddle, she starts screaming and pounding the handlebars.

而且隨著音樂節奏，她站起來，開始尖叫並敲打手把。

第一，嘻哈紅遍全亞洲了，各位。

There is a middle aged white woman from Charleston, South Carolina, talking about murdering somebody in public.

有個來自南卡羅來納州查爾斯頓的中年白人女子，在公開場合談論殺人。

And number two, according to some of y', all, because of those lyrics, she's likely to murder someone this afternoon.

而且第二，根據你們其中一些人的說法，因為那些歌詞，她今天下午很可能會殺人。

A team of us collected data on every radio station in America.

我們有一個團隊，收集了美國所有廣播電臺的資料。

And for every radio station, we know the genre of the song.

而且對於每個廣播電臺，我們都知道歌曲的類型。

So as this interactive graph gets more red, that is the spread of hip hop across every county in America.

所以，隨著這個互動式圖表變得越來越紅，這就是嘻哈在美國每個縣的傳播範圍。

Now, to collect the data, first we went and got literally every radio handle.

現在，為了收集資料，我們首先實際取得了每一個廣播電臺的頻道代號。

And for every radio handle, we have the broadcast frequency and range from each one of them.

而且對於每個頻道代號，我們都有它們的廣播頻率和範圍。

And then for Some of the radio stations, we actually have the playlists that were on the radio.

然後對於一些廣播電臺，我們實際上還擁有了當時廣播的播放列表。

And for those playlists, of course, we have the songs.

而對於這些播放列表，我們當然也有歌曲。

We analyzed every lyric that has been played on many radio stations in America.

我們分析了美國許多電臺播放過的每一句歌詞。

Now, it took a team of us to do this, and

好了，這需要我們團隊一起努力，而且

with the advances in AI, we made more progress in the last six months than we made in the first 10 years.

隨著 AI 的進步，我們在過去六個月的進展，比前十年加起來還要多。

Now you can imagine having research assistants sit and listen to a bunch of hip hop and score it all day long.

你可以想像一下，讓研究助理整天坐著聽一堆嘻哈音樂並為它們評分。

We've looked at the evolution of the types of hip hop played on the radio over the last 40 years.

我們觀察了過去 40 年來電臺播放的嘻哈音樂類型的演變。

The bottom is what I call alternative, or what they call alternative or experimental hip hop.

最下面是我稱之為另類，或他們稱之為另類或實驗性嘻哈的。

It's a small portion, but this is the kind of hip hop that pushes boundaries.

這是其中一小部分，但這種嘻哈音樂確實能突破界限。

The second the yellow is conscious or lyrical hip hop, think Kendrick Lamar, who was brilliant enough to win a Pulitzer Prize for his lyrics.

黃色部分是意識流或歌詞導向的嘻哈，想想 Kendrick Lamar，他才華洋溢，憑藉歌詞贏得了普立茲獎。

The big part in the middle is mainstream hip hop, the type that's played on the radio most of the time.

中間那大部分是主流嘻哈，也就是大部分時間在電臺播放的那種。

Think Jay Z or I'm a little older, run DMC now at the top, that's where the controversy is.

想想 Jay Z，或者我再老一點，現在最上面的是 Run DMC，這就是爭議所在。

That is street rap or think Dr. Dre Tupac.

那是街頭饒舌，想想 Dr. Dre 和 Tupac。

What I want you to get from this is that that was a small portion of of the overall hip hop played on the radio for the last 40 years.

我希望你們從中瞭解的是，這只是過去 40 年來電臺播放的嘻哈音樂總體中的一小部分。

It increases in the last 10 years, but even still a minority of the hip hop played.

過去 10 年有所增加，但即便如此，仍然只是播放的嘻哈音樂中的少數。

Now, as I said, we have hundreds of thousands of songs we've processed and we have the lyrics for each one of these songs.

現在，就像我說的，我們處理了數十萬首歌曲，並且我們有這些歌曲中每一首的歌詞。

So I have a graph here to show you how lyrics have evolved over the last 40 years.

這裡我準備了一個圖表，讓大家看看過去 40 年歌詞的演變。

We train the AI to grade each song in terms of how misogynistic it was, how viral, violent the content is, how profane the language is, and

我們訓練 AI 來評估每首歌的厭女程度、病毒式傳播程度、內容暴力程度、語言粗俗程度，以及

Over the last 40 years, hip hop music has gotten five times more misogynistic, five times more violent, five times more profane, but

過去 40 年來，嘻哈音樂的厭女內容增加了五倍，暴力程度增加了五倍，粗俗程度也增加了五倍，但是

only two and a half times as many drug references.

毒品相關的提及只增加了兩倍半。

My grandmother who raised me, when she'd find a CD I was hiding, and

我奶奶把我撫養大，她發現我藏起來的 CD 時，

she says, I know you don't listen to this filth, honey.

她會說，寶貝，我知道你不會聽這種髒東西。

Maybe we should lean in, you know, maybe we should just have an award for the most extreme hip hop song, right?

那不然我們就順勢而為，你知道的，也許我們可以設一個「最極端嘻哈歌曲獎」，對吧？

Now I don't think The Grammys are going to do it.

但我現在不覺得葛萊美獎會這麼做。

所以也許我們應該自己辦一個葛萊美獎。

So what we did was we scored every single song on the four dimensions I described.

所以我們做的就是，我剛剛講的那四個維度，我們給每一首歌都打了分數。

We said, who is the winner for the most extreme hip hop song of all time?

我們說，誰是史上最極端嘻哈歌曲的贏家？

Now, before I tell you, one song was so extreme that the AI refused to degrade it.

在我告訴你們之前，有一首歌實在太極端了，連 AI 都不想把它降級。