Rapgenius got a 15 MILLION dollar investment

[Capitol]

Every user who comes in here talking about how that site turned them onto SO many artists or how now they know the meaning of their FAVORITE LINES, are fukking fraudulent. And i don't have a ounce of respect for your soft body. Read a fukking book.
I was locked up for a minute (county aint shyt doe foreal) and i was around some REAL ILLITERATE IGNORANT ASS GOONS who was schooling me on LUPE lines, giving me mad knowledge on all shynes shyt, the lox, some go-go, g-rap, big pun, nas and telling me how i need to step my game up. If yall really fans and care about the music/craft and listen to it all the time how much is a white website really gonna help you out? This site is dissecting the LYRICS in RAP. The FOCAL point, the HEART of rap. Do you all have any idea how powerful words are? This is OUR MUSIC and yall okay with EVERY rap song becoming some sing-a-long follow-the-bouncy-ball-lyrics type shyt? This site is making everything our favorite artists accomplished impersonal.
If yall can't see whats happening to rap yall blind.

SHINING EXAMPLE --- WHO OWNS THESE LABELS WE ADORE
BET IS USING RICK ROSS, YOUNG JEEZY, AND DEF JAM ARTIST TO PROMOTE THE HIP HOP AWARDS..... - YouTube

Man if you nikkas don't stop writing essays battling these invisible demons and trying to uphold this imaginary sanctity of hip hop

 

[Prince Akeem]

I did though. shyt made me feel a certain type of way.

That's why I don't joke about race with white people...Some of them know our issues and problems and will say some shyt that cuts deep and hide behind "its just a joke" type BS.

 

[Real]

So a 12 year old from the south that had never been to NY or the East Coast in general could listen to mid 90's rap and automatically understand everything with zero reference or knowledge of it?

Some of you on here try too damn hard to prove how "hip-hop" you are.

U said "most ppl". 12 year old demographic isn't "most ppl". I see right thru yo weak ass. Stfu.

 

[jadillac]

@†ZULU† I agree with you

Rap Genius (as handy as it is) is inadverntantly taking the soul out of hiphop. I don't think there should never be a 3rd party breakdown of a lyric. Leave that to the artist to do if the choose to.

So you're also opposed to people creating threads on here to dissect/discuss lyrics?

It's the same thing.

Music is for the people. Donny Hathaway "Someday We'll All be Free", he said was simply about his friend who was going thru a personal issue.

But instead people have used it at funerals, at rallys & marches, just as inspiration in general...NONE of which were the intention of the artist.

I like reading one persons take on what a lyric means as opposed to what I believe.

U said "most ppl". 12 year old demographic isn't "most ppl". I see right thru yo weak ass. Stfu.

Ummm...ok, so let's go with MOST people.

What I said still applies. Unless you're familar with NYC or you'd been there, you didn't know everything they were rapping about. You didn't understand every slang specific to NY, you didn't understand every location they rapped about.

 

[Heelish]

OHHLA really fukked up, they had people send in corrected lyrics all the time

 

[†ZULU â€]

Man if you nikkas don't stop writing essays battling these invisible demons and trying to uphold this imaginary sanctity of hip hop

what happened to the moors and native americans. What happened to the monumental achievements of our predecessors (REAL BLACK HISTORY). what happened to jazz. what happened to rock. what happened to the blues. What happened to R&B. What happened to rap. you just dont get it do you

 

[Real]

So you're also opposed to people creating threads on here to dissect/discuss lyrics?

It's the same thing.

Music is for the people. Donny Hathaway "Someday We'll All be Free", he said was simply about his friend who was going thru a personal issue.

But instead people have used it at funerals, at rallys & marches, just as inspiration in general...NONE of which were the intention of the artist.

I like reading one persons take on what a lyric means as opposed to what I believe.



Ummm...ok, so let's go with MOST people.

What I said still applies. Unless you're familar with NYC or you'd been there, you didn't know everything they were rapping about. You didn't understand every slang specific to NY, you didn't understand every location they rapped about.

Give two examples than.

 

[Capitol]

what happened to the moors and native americans. What happened to the monumental achievements of our predecessors (REAL BLACK HISTORY). what happened to jazz. what happened to rock. what happened to the blues. What happened to R&B. What happened to rap. you just dont get it do you

Rapgenius is going to be the down fall of black culture? Makes perfect sense now that I think about it First they take rap then they take our basic rights

 

[†ZULU â€]

Rapgenius is going to be the down fall of black culture? Makes perfect sense now that I think about it First they take rap then they take our basic rights

you're proof it already has

You need to wake up. Matter of fact ask yourself (without google/lifelines) how many completely black run businesses you know of? How many generations back do you know your family tree? How many black families do you know on a personal basis? Why are you an african-american? 15 major contributions "african-americans" have given to american society (the cell-phone is one btw), what is the origin of your name, how many situations in your life have been birthed from direct media influence (be honest). You sleep bruh

 

[Capitol]

you're proof it already has

You need to wake up. Matter of fact ask yourself (without google/lifelines) how many completely black run businesses you know of? How many generations back do you know your family tree? How many black families do you know on a personal basis? Why are you an african-american? 15 major contributions "african-americans" have given to american society (the cell-phone is one btw), what is the origin of your name, how many situations in your life have been birthed from direct media influence (be honest). You sleep bruh

I.......I don't know

 

[No1]

I can't be mad at the Yale boys.

 

[zerozero]

seems like they're investing in the team and technology

the hip hop part is just incidental

 

[prophecypro]

I didnt know the site was THAT big...

 

[ManBearPig]

rap genius was useful with Lupe Fiasco

 

[Mac Casper]

An artist I'm working with (I produce) told me about this and he's proud because one of the site runners asked him to feature his lyrics on there and gave him some praise