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Rap Genius

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Rap Genius is your guide to the meaning of rap lyrics

You can listen to songs, read their lyrics, and click the lines that interest you for pop-up explanations – we have thousands of canonical rap songs explained (2Pac, Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z – even the beginning of the Torah..)

Our aim is not to translate rap into “nerdspeak”, but rather to critique rap as poetry

Anyone can create an account and start explaining rap. Highlight any line to explain it yourself, suggest changes to existing explanations, and put up your favorite new songs.

If you make good contributions you’ll earn Rap IQ™, and if you spit true knowledge, eventually you’ll be able to edit anything on the site.. just like a hip-hop Wikipedia..

Recent Milestones

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  Rap Genius received $15M in Venture Round funding. (10/3/12)
  Posted 10/3/12 at 5:53pm via techcrunch.com
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  Rap Genius received in Seed funding. (9/1/11)
  Posted 5/6/13 at 12:36pm
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  Rap Genius added Tom Lehman as Co-founder.
  Posted 2/22/13 at 11:12am
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  Rap Genius added Ilan Zechory as Co-founder.
  Posted 2/22/13 at 11:13am
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  Rap Genius added Mahbod Moghadam as Co-founder.
  Posted 2/22/13 at 11:13am

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Screenshots

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Above: Rap Genius Screenshot -- #1
Uploaded: 10/3/12

Above: Rap IQ
Uploaded: 10/4/12

Sources

1. Citation Needed [add]
2. Andreessen Horowitz Invests $15M In Text Annotation Startup Rap Genius (techcrunch.com) [edit]