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 ...

Sha Money XL played a large part in the production of 50 Cent's debut album, "Get Rich or Die Tryin'."Getty/Kevin Winter; Getty/Johnny Nunez 50 Cent's former producer Sha Money XL told Insider he has ...

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’s traffic is tanking. Despite a strong community, it turns out that the lyrics site still primarily derives traffic from search. Some say they were gaming that search power. When we wrote ...

On Tuesday (Feb. 4), Justin Laboy debuted the new episode of his The Download podcast featuring Ye as a guest. Fresh off a head-turning appearance at the 2025 Grammy Awards, Ye talked about a number ...

Ever wonder when the term “twerk” was first used in rap, and when it became mainstream slang? What about the number of times rappers have shouted out Obama? Well, for all of the curious hip-hop heads ...