First Rap Genius helped the Web understand rap. Then the startup set out to annotate everything, from literature and history to sports and film. Now with 40 million in new funding from Dan Gilbert and ...

After a year full of hip-hop rivalries, are they the key to marketing music, or do they run the risk of ruining the culture?

Popular lyrics site Rap Genius has disappeared from Google after the search giant caught it in a bit of suspicious SEO ("search engine optimization") activity. The founders insist they didn't mean to ...

The National Music Publishers’ Association has announced it will hold talks with what it deemed the biggest offender, beloved lyrics analysis site Rap Genius, before commencing any lawsuit against it.

To save money, I sublet my ghetto apartment for 2 months and flew to New York, to chill with [Rap Genius cofounders] Tom [Lehman] and Ilan [Zechory]. I was completely out of money at this point – Tom ...

Google has removed Rap Genius from the top of its search results after it was discovered that the popular music lyrics website was trying to trick the tech giant into giving it better search rankings.

Rap Genius is ditching the "rap" part of its name. The company that started as a website where users could annotate and explain hip-hop lyrics is about much more than music these days. It's now a ...

No matter how closely you follow hip-hop culture, sometimes an emcee will make a reference that will either leave you scratching your head or simply go over it. To get the inside scoop on the meanings ...

The hip-hop content space is a cluttered one, and to break through requires diligence, creativity, persistence, and a truly unique point of view. Thankfully, these are all qualities that permeate ...

If you try to game Google, you're bound to get burned. Such is the case with Rap Genius, a site that hosts and explains lyrics to songs and copy from other texts. In an attempt to rank higher in ...

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