Check the founders of RapGenius

[Kaypain]

Why should I give a fukk?

 

[Morose Polymath]

Yeah they got exposed a few years back that some of their staff members were saying racist type comments behind the scenes.

They also made a wack vid trying to exploit and play Chief Keef and call him high and/or slow when he wasn't vibing with them like that.

They jacked most of their shyt from OHHLA anyway, fukk them forever

 

[SubZero]

Isn't it funny/troubling that almost all "black" spaces on the web are owned by cacs?

Bossip, LSA, hiphopwired, theGrio, MadameNoire, Datpiff etc.? And almost all the people are Jews, yet folks were arguing with me on a thread about Jews when I said they are overrated and they're parasites who depend on a host (mostly black folks) to thrive. They can't thrive on their own.

Go on a "black" site and end up making a cac richer, brehs. These cacs have infiltrated everything black.

 

[100Percent]

That white chick aint got shyt to do with RG she jus married one of the founders
You got the bytch all over the OP for what? We been know it was started by some cacs but the annotations are crowdsourced so why does it matter. If theres a black owned website thats doin the same shyt please drop a link if not

 

[gogogubari]

If you need Rap Genius to grasp the concept behind songs, as an adult, I have to question whether you really get the music. And, the insults are breaking down common and widespread slang, or references,

 

[DaveyDave]

OHHLA.com 4 life


Spit in these Rapgenius.com motherfukkkers faces

these young c*nts don't know about OHHLA

 

[mbewane]

Free market

I personnaly used it like a handful of times, English isn't my mother tongue but most of the times I'm just like "If I get I get it, if I don't I don't" it's actually "fun" to try understand lyrics, when you have the feeling they're worth understanding (not talking about Young Lil mumble thugs obviously).

 

[Higher Tech]

White folks got their hand in every part of black culture. I bet white folks are cuttin up and packaging chitlins (no I don't eat them). They sign the recording deals, the label deals, they choose whats on the radio and TV. They make the liquors that these rappers endorse, and the stadiums these rappers "own." They monetize every ounce of our culture. In 50 years, the average person will have no clue that black people birthed hip hop. It's headed the way of rock and roll and we refuse to take care of it no matter how blatant it is. If you think somebody's a c00n for using this site, then you're really in for a rude awakening.

 

[Booker T Garvey]

hip hop is the new jazz...look at this shyt:

^^^ we invented jazz and played it for decades...now they tour cruises, play on beaches and make millions every year off of it

and what's crazy is that we don't even complain about it....hip hop is just beginning the "complaining" phase, but pretty soon it'll be like jazz, we won't even give a shyt

 

[Booker T Garvey]

OHHLA.com 4 life


Spit in these Rapgenius.com motherfukkkers faces

we use to go here all the time back in the day...

then out of nowhere, rapgenius because the shyt..like, overnight. WTF!?!?

 

[Cynic]

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The main reason I don't fukk with cacgenius.

Probably voted for Trump too.



They love to reign control over black folks in one way or another whether music culture economics etc ..

Rapgenius is just "genius" now

They always wanted to use rap for a proof of concept and move on to decoding law.

 

[grandpianos]

they attempted to finesse the SEO exploitability of rap lyrics so hard they got de-listed by Google at one point

then they got legit, got VC funding, dropped the co-founder who had any personality at all and it was a wrap

 

[Cynic]

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At first lyrics sites like OHHLA, that I browsed in like 2000, were to find songs, discover artists catalogs, it would be like an equivalent to Youtube, as far as finding rare freestyles, and unreleased tracks, then I'd have to make a list and have someone burn me the cd, as I didn't have one. I heard songs I'd only read the lyrics too, through that process, like 'Drunk By Myself', or Nas freestyle over 'Eye For an Eye', 112 and Shyne 'Anywhere Remix'....And yeah, you could read the lyrics, as some songs had edits, or poor quality, but it was never like an interpretation, which is insulting one, and treats the art and culture like a zoo, for white hipsters. Rarely do I need help with lyrics, even slang I don't know, regionally, it's all in the context. Sites like Rap Genius are really just kind of an insight into how those people really view the genre. They have no real connection to the music, or the lifestyle it can portray, it's all just words, trends, and memes to them.

Not all hip hop listeners come from the inner city America breh. What connection do you expect kids from other countries/cultures to have to hip hop ? A brazilian/greek chick whose never set foot in the U.S. can now gain better insight in their native countries and thus understand it more.

Same applies for immigrants, rich cacs and middle class cacs....

Just because you dont need help doesn't mean others dont.

 

[Crayola Coyote]

Rapgenius was really for all the cac bloggers and culture vultures who didn't understand the coded lingo of hip hop and didn't really want to do the work to decode and decipher. They created a place where others who knew could provide them with the information so they could then be able to latch on and catch on to our shyt. Real listeners just keep playing it and playing it and then sometimes weeks, months or even years may pass before it hits us. That's the beauty of lyrics, not some forced, contrived over thought out contraption to lay everything out. Cac shyt 101.

Well damn didn't catch on to that

 

[Crayola Coyote]

You're using a site co-created by a white man.
Shut the fukk up, especially since most of the rappers you stan don't give a fukk about which race listens to their music/gets involved in Hip Hop.
Genius has the most correct lyrics out of any lyrics site, and they have good information when they aren't stretching the meanings out.

Super Sambo to the rescue!