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 ...

Can a company of brogrammers—best known for explaining Kanye West lyrics and telling Warren Buffett to do unseemly things— actually annotate the world? Genius’s task is now a cultural, not technical, ...

When two greats get together. Eminem may not be clocking in the studio hours like he used to, but like any bonafide lover of hip-hop, he’s still up-to-date with what’s driving the culture. READ: ...

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 ...

The National Music Publishers’ Association has announced it will hold talks with what it deemed the biggest offender, beloved lyrics analysis site Rap Genius, before commencing any lawsuit against it.

The operators of the popular song lyrics database Rap Genius learned this the hard way after Google caught on to an attempt by the site’s management to use scam links to boost its ranking in searches.

DETROIT, MI -- A rapper named Raymond Jones who is part of a group called Hotstylz is reportedly suing Eminem and his label for $8 million because he claims Slim Shady sampled his song "Lookin Boy" ...

The controversial, well-funded Rap Genius site is among 50 lyrics sites being hit with stern takedown notices from the National Music Publishers Association. The trade organization’s goal is “to ...

About a mile down Sunset Boulevard from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, artist Peggy Noland sits in her ground floor studio on a furry couch shaped like a pair of lips, surrounded by a pastel panorama ...

Before resigning in disgrace after publically annotating UC Santa Barbara killer Elliot Rodger’s manifesto, Mahbod Moghadam considered his Genius co-founders Ilan Zechory and Tom Lehman his best ...