RapGenius sells out; becomes Genius.com
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Jeffrey Lebowski
i'm the dude
Dan Gilbert making moves
Piff Perkins
Veteran
smh @ nobody thinking of this idea before these corny ass dudes. I respect their vision but jeez, these dudes are fukkboys...
i don't know much about them but given this announcement i want to look into it. plenty of people probably wanted to do something like this but they didn't capitalize. that's how it goes, more often than not it seems when it comes to hiphop.
I think there is an element of luck to it... think of a site like whosampled.com , I could make a project like that but it would just sit around instead of getting venture capital.. meanwhile RapGenius really took off... so there's a mix of various factors
jilla82
Veteran
why exactly does that site need 40m?
the cac mamba
Banned
to be even cornier
criminology
hearse initiator
Probably a million went to just buying genius.com.
This was their stated plan all along. They said it years ago. They want publicly to annotate everything. Last year you could already find public domain books like ulysses on there with some notes.
Rapmastermind
Superstar
If you are a fan of Hip Hop to it's core then you will eventually understand it's language without the use of a wikipedia style lyrics site. I know Hip Hop/Black/Hood Slang isn't for everyone but the lingo is apart of the culture. This is why I've never been a fan of the site. Of course they are expanding. You dudes thought they were in it for the love of Hip Hop? Ha.
2manyFCKNrappers
mentally i measure kilos
i wonder how much they had to pay for that domain name
Prince.Skeletor
Don’t Be Like He-Man
Ppl dont go there for slang, they go to urban dictionary for that sons
prophecypro
Hollywood North
Nas still got a stake in this?
The Dust King
A Childrens Story
yea these kids are cultures vultures all the way. if i need lyrics i still check ohhla
very rarely if ever did i check them for lyrics.
mind you those 3 kids are corny, spoiled rich camron stans
thats why they made the site to begin with which apparently doesnt even do its job
shyt is filled with wrong edits, wrong terminology, obviously ignored terms because of ignorance and last but not least it compiles lyrics but leaves incorrect or trolling entries
also lets not forget that google scam that they ran and got them banned from google last year
lol