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, the online lyric site with financial backing from Silicon Valley heavyweights, has signed its first licensing deal. Billboard has learned the Brooklyn-based startup has a licensing… By ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Genius Media, the widely used lyrics-database company formerly known as Rap Genius, has been acquired by app and internet media ...

Rap Genius co-founder Mahbod Moghadam resigned today from the company and board of directors. The resignation follows an annotation by Moghadam on the manifesto written by Elliot Rodger, who went on… ...

(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 debate over HealthCare.gov’s rocky performance during its first few weeks has brought the oft-maligned but little understood world of federal contracting into the public conversation again. And, ...

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 ...