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 ...

You could call Rap Genius a “text annotation website,” but that’s kind of selling the Brooklyn-based, venture-backed startup short. Better: Rap Genius has probably discovered the next Kanye West. Or ...

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.

Remember Genius? The startup that started out decoding rap lyrics (and named Rap Genius) but then wanted to create a new layer on top of the entire internet and “annotate the world”? The one that The ...

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 site designed to decode rap lyrics has become a source of news analysis. The debate over HealthCare.gov’s rocky performance during its first few weeks has brought the oft-maligned but little ...

Rap Genius doesn’t just post song lyrics, they also annotate them. In that way, the company believes, their use of lyrics falls under fair use. They are creating something new. So the Rap Genius team ...

Ever wonder when the term “twerk” was first used in rap, and when it became mainstream slang? What about the number of times rappers have shouted out Obama? Well, for all of the curious hip-hop heads ...