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 ...

Rap Genius co-founder Mahbod Moghadam resigned today from the company and board of directors. The resignation follows an annotation by Moghadam on the manifesto written by Elliot Rodger, who went on… ...

Rap Genius was just the first step to fulfilling Marc Andreessen’s Netscape dream of letting people annotate the whole Internet. Today, the lyric explanation startup tries to achieve its destiny with ...

Google has removed Rap Genius from the top of its search results after it was discovered that the popular music lyrics website was trying to trick the tech giant into giving it better search rankings.

Rap Genius tops a list of 50 sites that the National Music Publishers Association has targeted for publishing unlicensed lyrics based on a report prepared by musician and college lecturer David… By ...