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 ...

Popular lyrics site Rap Genius has disappeared from Google after the search giant caught it in a bit of suspicious SEO ("search engine optimization") activity. The founders insist they didn't mean to ...

As the Kendrick Lamar and Drake rap beef escalated to meteoric heights over the weekend, the rap lyrics site Genius struggled to keep up. Fans rushed to the lyrics site to decipher the cryptic ...

You could call Rap Genius a “text annotation website,” but that’s kind of selling the Brooklyn-based, venture-backed startup short. Better: Rap Genius has probably discovered the next Kanye West. Or ...

After Rap Genius rebranded to just plain ‘Genius’, their mission expanded beyond one genre of music to annotating every piece of text in the world. However, they still maintain a vast and up-to-date ...

Music website Genius says it has proof Google is copying its lyrics, displaying them in search results, and driving down traffic to Genius.com. The evidence is all in the punctuation. Genius has been ...

(AllHipHop News) After the lyric website Rap Genius was accused of uses link schemes to get unnatural hits, Google has apparently penalized the site. A link to “rapgenius.com” is no longer available ...

The site designed to decode rap lyrics has become a source of news analysis. The debate over HealthCare.gov’s rocky performance during its first few weeks has brought the oft-maligned but little ...

The furious exchange of diss tracks and the rush to interpret each song briefly overwhelmed Genius, where users can annotate lyrics to songs. By Alexandra E. Petri Cole Swain was scrolling through his ...