Rap Genius gets a 15mil investment

[drizzle]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalley ... ap-genius/

[peanut butter]

Mayans were right


PEACE

[Philaflava]

never even heard of until this post

[bbatson1]

I just looked at the site. Dumb as shit. So you can pretty much count on it being successful.

[peanut butter]

Fanute the knowledge, God

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/magaz ... wanted=all


PEACE

[Moolah]

Is this rele trew?

http://rapgenius.com/Ras-kass-nature-of ... eat-lyrics

[EichTurner]

^^ only made it to the hindu swastika part but that was pretty informational and kewl actually.. i've only checked a few rap genius pages and it's just been like 'cheese= money' .. should have delved deeper if they have shit like shopenhuer on nature of the threat. also i don't get the verifieed accounts do the rappers actually explain their own lyrics i haven't been able to find any like that if they do but that would be cool.

[drizzle]

Fanute the knowledge, God

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/magaz ... wanted=all


PEACE

big fan of this one, sums up a lot of the problems with the site reallly well

will stalley is a good writer

[Larry2times]

shit like them rapgeniusing Willy's article almost makes me wanna respect them
http://rapgenius.com/Willy-staley-lady- ... ics-lyrics
One of the founders responds to criticism with godawful YouTube freestyles, the most spectacular ones where he n-bombs and calls himself a transvestite have since been deleted though

[Thun]

Fanute the knowledge, God

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/magaz ... wanted=all


PEACE

big fan of this one, sums up a lot of the problems with the site reallly well

will stalley is a good writer

Shockingly dumb article.

[Reason]

never even heard of until this post

[The Frankest]

"I've helped millionaires get to that very position..."

has been a big proponent of the site this year, that's how I heard of it. And now this happens. HUH...

[sleazy_j]

http://www.byroncrawford.com/2012/10/ra ... acism.html

http://www.byroncrawford.com/2012/10/th ... music.html

[peanut butter]

Rap twitter been trolling the fuck outta these guys and its fun to watch.



PEACE

[Mindbender Futurama]

http://www.byroncrawford.com/2012/10/ra ... acism.html

http://www.byroncrawford.com/2012/10/th ... music.html

VOM



did all the respect i was slowly building for that website that i found myself increasingly visiting in the last 2 months just disappear in one fucking minute?

methinks so

x x mo'

shoutout to all the white people NOT FUCKING BEING RACIST PIECES OF SHIT WHILE EXPLOITING HIP HOP CULTURE AND BLACK HISTORY ~FROM THE INSIDE~

sooo fucking

this is the best thing Byron Crawford has ever done in his internet career: expose this fuckory.

rap is outta control. no genius.
chriiiiist

[WiCkEd22]

That Rap Genius guys is a fuckin fgt. He's from Malibu, CA. *shaking head*

[illuminati_guy]

this is comedy

[WiCkEd22]

The past few hours that Rap Genius fgt was involved in a "Twitter Beef" with Robbie of Unkut and Dallas Penn. haha

[Philaflava]

so can this site and that 15M funding go away now? you want to understand the lyrics? listen to the song a few more times or just come to the realization you just ain't that bright.

[peanut butter]

http://tumblinerb.com/post/34418855275/ ... d-geniuses
http://www.byroncrawford.com/2012/10/vi ... omney.html
http://www.thefader.com/2012/10/29/ivy- ... entalists/
http://gawker.com/5953079/your-guide-to ... investment
http://www.unkut.com/2012/10/rap-genius-rapsloitation/
http://grandgood.com/2012/10/27/not-so- ... worthless/



PEACE

[Mindbender Futurama]

we don't believe you, you need more people.

fucking backpedallers.

if you want to be super-racist pieces of exploitative, hip-hop-cocksucking Euro-trash or Ignorant Immigrants, you have every right to be all that you can be. Don't fucking simp out now that you get caught. Own up to that shit and get your Kevin Federline on. If anyone kills your chump ass for faking the funk, they are a murderer, and you were just a piece of shit racist fuck. Your white privilege-blessed rapgenius meme will be immortalized on the internet within minutes.

I don't need any more internet addictions, but I was JUST about to sign up to that website and start adding my genius.
They got a lot of Company Flow's lyrics wrong and un-defined... but after this shitstorm

FUCK THESE FUCKING FUCKS

x x

[Larry2times]

lol at only realizing Rap Genius is terrible after the more blatant racism

[Philaflava]

Not a fan of opportunist and I think both Noz and BC may have a little more of a reason to roast these dudes, but I surely hope RG is exposed for what it is. A month ago you had rappers trying to praise them and be apart of that hype train. OHHLA is the og of this shit. The world has enough Jewish Ivy Leaguers ruining it.

[Larry2times]

Im just glad rap internet still has a few self-clownings left in it and Bol is joining in again.

[Mindbender Futurama]

nothing worse in the world than self-entitled racist pieces of shit making fun of other people's history and suffering.

literally the worst kind of fucking scumbags on earth.

the KKK is bad... but at least they stayed in their own lane.

this kind of shit is fucking the pinnacle of patheticness, cause these fucks are nothing without hip hop culture... but they secretly mock and degrade and lambaste it on the low, while benefiting IMMENSELY for praising it and loving it in public

fuck you pieces of shit.

you aren't as smart as you think you are.

[Larry2times]

http://www.byroncrawford.com/2012/10/ra ... p-map.html



regional thugs

[Myjah]

I knew of the site. User created content so it's really hit or miss. I have found some pretty hilarious stuff on there googling lyrics for certain songs.

I read this article http://betabeat.com/2012/10/rap-genius- ... et-talmud/ on the investment the other day and it talks a lot about the founders and how they are basically gigantic douche bags. The site can be fun to play around on but I'm skeptical as hell that it can make real money.

I DID find it hilarious they are planning a legal version and think they could charge law firms for it like westlaw/lexinexis. I have no fucking idea how the "roll over for an explanation" format makes it easier for lawyers to find all the relevant cases on a particular legal issue. The whole thing is backwards, it should be explanations leading to cases not cases leading to explanations. Do they not teach basic legal research at stanford law? Seems like the kid just snorted a fucking 8 ball and thought a law rap genius was the best idea ever.

Cliff notes: Site creators are idiots from wealthy ass families who duped this investor. The end.

[Myjah]

Rap twitter been trolling the fuck outta these guys and its fun to watch.



PEACE

I have missed this and that makes me very sad.

[peanut butter]

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/an-annotate ... rap-genius


PEACE

[drizzle]

this one si pretty funny

http://rapgeniusgenius.tumblr.com/