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 furious exchange of diss tracks and the rush to interpret each song briefly overwhelmed Genius, where users can annotate lyrics to songs. By Alexandra E. Petri Cole Swain was scrolling through his ...

(AllHipHop News) Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert has not been afraid to spend part of his reported $3.8 billion dollars net worth in recent days. First, he was able to bring LeBron James back to ...

This week in Lil B: A song extolling the virtues of winning, Charlie Sheen-style. Not the first to come from the rap world by any means (see: …), but the most easily digestible, and the most ...

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 ...

Limited-edition Sprite cans featuring 50 classic hip-hop songs will be available in a new campaign, The Living Tracklist, in partnership with Genius. Sprite’s newest campaign, dubbed The Living ...