Taiwan Hip-Hop Map

A public, interactive map of Taiwan's jazzy hip-hop lineage — 121 people, 14 labels, 151 songs — grown from my DJ research into who sampled whom. Labels open into artists, artists into songs; every connection cites its source.

Taiwan hip-hop's connective tissue — who sampled whom, who produced whom, who came up under which label — lives scattered across interviews, liner notes and fan wikis. You could read about the scene for years and never see its shape.

A force-directed graph (d3-force driving a hand-written Canvas 2D renderer, no build step) that opens with 14 labels and grows as you click: labels into artists, artists into albums and songs. Sampling edges animate in the direction of influence, and clicking any line explains why those two are connected — with the source. The data is one JSON file per artist in a public repo, CC BY 4.0, open to pull requests.

Research discipline applied to culture: sourced genealogy work with a hard 'verified or marked unknown' rule, shipped as a public artifact anyone can explore — and correct via pull request.