Rap Genius about to get shut down....
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Whats so illegal about their site? Aside from being corny
8TheMysticalTrickster
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lyrics
it's considered a form of bootlegging and distribution
usually you have the buy the CD for lyrics, but here they are giving lyrics away for free
and putting their own interpretation to it as well.
Time r changing, youtube will NOT be youtube in a few years
As soon as they got that big pump of VC funding a while back, I knew it was a wrap for them, and I'm surprised it took this long to be honest.
The site is very useful, but I heard the dudes behind the site on Combat Jack's podcast and to say they're corny would be the understatement of the year. They're the definition of cultural outsiders, don't give too shyts about rap culture or history (nor should they have to, mind you), so really,
The site is very useful, but I heard the dudes behind the site on Combat Jack's podcast and to say they're corny would be the understatement of the year. They're the definition of cultural outsiders, don't give too shyts about rap culture or history (nor should they have to, mind you), so really,
Nas put money into rapgenius? Anyways from a business/technology standpoint supposedly rapgenius is just a front/demonstration and the real secret sauce is in the technology used for annotating the web. But then again every start up has some 'secret sauce' and 99% of the time it is 99% bullshyt...
Where is www.ohhla.com 
Do most CD's actually give out lyrics in the booklets anymore though? Because if not, then I don't see how people in the industry can bytch about other people giving out the written lyrics if you're not going to do it yourself.
how the fukk is that illegal. thats fukking stupid. its the only site I go to when I need to look up lyrics
The site for overcompensating smartdumb ass cacs to flock to is getting shut down
Cacgenius
We did it
Im so used to Nas Losing I aint even notice it this timeso another one of nas investments going under, lets see thats:
1.) Esco clothing
2.) Ill Will records
3.) Rap genius
maybe Rock the Bells/Guerilla Union next
ha my shyt for yearsWhere is www.ohhla.com
came here to post that
Imagine rappers giving people their lyrics w/ cd.
Most of the people will read along slowly realizing their hearing to complete stupidity.
Most of the people will read along slowly realizing their hearing to complete stupidity.
ManBearPig
half man half bearpig
and how is that more illegal than having message boards and wikipidia?
if rapgenius go down then it would be for retarded reasons.