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| Jul 14, 2014 | Do You Feel Pressure Or Do You Apply Pressure? | Ben Horowitz Contributor
To whoever think their words affect me is too stupid
And if you can do it better than me, then you do it
—Kanye West, “Cold”
One obvious yet under-appreciated law of business physics is:
For any given company, the l... |
| Jul 11, 2014 | 14,000 dead men receive draft registration notices after data snafu | reader comments 100 with 66 posters participating
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| Jun 27, 2014 | This Week in Racism - Stop Using Black People as Props for Viral Videos | Welcome to a special "hood pranks" edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking shitty internet videos on a scale of one to RACIST, with “one” being the least racist and “RACIST” being the most racist.
You may not know this, bu... |
| May 28, 2014 | Facial recognition medical advertiser raises $285K [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
Williamsburg’s Hoolux Medical, a company that serves up tailored ads in hospital waiting rooms using facial recognition software, raised $285,000 in an equity round, according to the SEC.
Who’s making moves?
Educational... |
| May 26, 2014 | Rap Genius cofounder forced out over insensitive comments about Santa Barbara shooting | Annotation service startup Rap Genius announced today that it has ended its relationship with cofounder Mahbod Moghadam.
Over the weekend, Moghadam participated in annotating a 141-page manifesto from Elliot Rodger, a 22-year-old who shot a... |
| May 21, 2014 | Spotify, Please Chill With The [Censored] Music | Spotify is a magic music box. It’s [Censored] an amazing tool. I like to [Censored] people that the $10 I send it each month is the [Censored] money I spend. Having access to such a massive catalog of tunes on every device I own is the [Cen... |
| May 10, 2014 | Dr. Dre Is Probably Not The First Billionaire In Hip-Hop | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2e5ZibypDk%5D
The tech world is exploding with the news of Apple’s reported $3.2 billion acquisition of the Beats Headphones. Last night, the company’s cofounder and former rapper Dr. Dre took to You... |
| Apr 2, 2014 | KitchenSurfing // Atavist // Smartgift [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
KitchenSurfing raised $15 million in a Series B round, according to Mashable. The funds helped it to expand from New York to Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Berlin.
Who’s making moves?
Wool&Prince has announced it’... |
| Mar 17, 2014 | This West Chester rapper and developer is joining 500 Startups | In two years, Jarrett Abello went from power user on Rapt.fm to member of the founding team.
Abello, 31, has been rapping since he was 17. The former West Chester resident quickly became a power user on Rapt.fm, an online platform for rap b... |
| Feb 12, 2014 | Dash software for paying bar tabs raises $400k [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
Here’s the official announcement that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures raised an $8,251,000 fund, according to an SEC filing. We covered the announcement of this funding round last week.
Dash Software raised $419,691, according... |
| Feb 6, 2014 | Snippit Launches An App To Add (Brief) Soundtracks To Your Photos | Snippit is a just-launched app offering a twist on photo-sharing.
The idea is pretty straightforward — instead of sharing a photo on its own, Snippit allows users to add a 4-to-10-second clip of their favorite song. The song can be somethin... |
| Jan 13, 2014 | The FDA Wants To Dig Through Everyone's Stuff In Order To 'Monitor Online Sentiment' | The FDA would like to know what you’re thinking. It doesn’t want to read minds and it couldn’t care less about your lesser, non-FDA-related thoughts. That stuff’s for other agencies with even creepier intentions and more nefarious toolsets.... |
| Jan 7, 2014 | Google Accused Of ‘Double Standard’ Over Rap Genius Penalty Lift | Google is being accused of employing a double standard for its handling of web spam and enabling one penalized site to recover speedily from a manual action. While the search giant has certainly been accused of double standards by angry web... |
| Jan 6, 2014 | Rap Genius Climbs Out Of Google Penalty Box | As you may have heard, lyrics site Rap Genius was hit with a big Google penalty around Christmas time for unnatural linking practices.
The site was telling people they could be a “blog affiliate” and get “MASSIVE traffic” when they posted R... |
| Jan 4, 2014 | Google Puts Rap Genius Back Atop Searches, Favoring Smart Results Over Holding A Grudge | Google apparently cares more about giving the best search results than punishing spammers, as it’s returning lyrics site Rap Genius to its high rankings for searches after it was exiled for SEO spam 10 days ago. What looked like a death sen... |
| Jan 2, 2014 | Traffic to Rap Genius is crashing: how one SEO trick prompted a Google crackdown | 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 about annotated lyrics site Rap Genius ea... |
| Dec 26, 2013 | Rap Genius And The Problem With The Venture Capital Fueled Growth Hack | |
| Dec 25, 2013 | Google Destroys Rap Genius’ Search Rankings As Punishment For SEO Spam, But Resolution In Progress | Google hit back hard today after it learned lyrics site Rap Genius had been using dubious SEO tricks to attain top spots in search results. Now RapGenius.com doesn’t appear on the first page of results for a search of “Rap Genius,” and popu... |
| Dec 24, 2013 | Lyrics site Rap Genius admits to SEO chicanery in an open letter to Google | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Dec 24, 2013 | Rap Genius Apologizes For Not-So-Genius SEO Spam Tactics | Those lovable rascals from Andreessen Horowitz-backed Rap Genius are stirring up trouble again. But this time it’s not for controversial statements they’ve made — instead, the company came under fire for spammy SEO tactics.
Yesterday, follo... |
| Dec 24, 2013 | Lyrics site Rap Genius admits to SEO chicanery in an open letter to Google | One of the more popular sites for finding lyrics to that song you can’t get out of your head is Rap Genius. However, the company came under fire from Google recently for apparently using unscrupulous SEO methods to make sure it pops up as t... |
| Dec 16, 2013 | The tech behind Rap Genius and its goal to annotate the web | Technical.ly Brooklyn spoke with Rap Genius the same day that Beyonce released a surprise new album on the world. Needless to say, for a site driven heavily by music culture, this was a big day. Ronald Metellus, a member of the company’s ma... |
| Dec 4, 2013 | ToyMail and goTenna succeed in funding rounds [Startup Roundup] | Who’s getting money?
goTenna, which calls itself a hardware-software product that will connect you when you don’t have cell phone service, raised $1.8M on an oversubscribed seed equity round, according to an SEC filing. The company is accep... |
| Nov 12, 2013 | When Is A Lyric Site More Than A Lyric Site? | Honestly, if there’s anything more stupid than the music industry and song-writers going after lyrics sites, I can’t imagine what that thing might be. We’ve talked in the past about how short-sighted it is for the profiteers of interest in ... |
| Oct 24, 2013 | SA 100 2013: The Coolest People In New York Tech
Check out the 2012 Silicon Alley 100 list | Business Insider / Mike Nudelman
Yahoo's $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr really put New York tech on the map this year.
But over the past few years, New York City has become a tech hotspot. Scroll through this year's Silicon Alley 100 &g... |
| Oct 15, 2013 | YouTube Kills Livestream Of Convention When Audience Starts Singing 'Happy Birthday' | Nothing kills an event hosted by YouTube (and other streaming services) quicker than a spontaneous rendition of the song everyone sings when it’s someone’s birthday, but yet somehow “belongs” solely to Warner Music. Granted, this didn’t act... |
| Oct 11, 2013 | Rappers Are Rapping About Being Verified (Or Not) On Twitter | Here’s a question: Are rappers rapping about being verified on Twitter? As it turns out, a number have, both in the positive (verified) and the negative (not verified). And, it also turns out, I am way, way behind.
The lyrics, as you might ... |
| Sep 10, 2013 | 2 Chainz Is Turning His Penchant for Instagramming Food Into a Cookbook Called #MEALTIME | 2 CHAINZ — sorry, can’t say it without yelling. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/GettyImages)
Throw out your Ina Garten cookbooks, because you won’t be needing them anymore.
Hiphop DX reports that rapper and SEO specialist 2 Chainz, née Tity Boi, pla... |
| Sep 5, 2013 | Rapt.fm Launches In Beta To Enable Live Rap Battles To Happen Anytime, Anywhere | We first met Detroit-based startup Rapt.fm back in November 2012, when we were swinging through town for the TechCrunch Northern Meetups. It’s safe to say that Erik Torenberg was the first startup CEO I’d ever met whose demo included a free... |
| Aug 19, 2013 | Diigo, A Tool For Highlighting And Adding Sticky Notes To The Web, Gets A Facelift | The social bookmarking, web annotation and research tool Diigo is launching a redesign and refresh today. The site has 7 million registered users, but the boot-strapped company is seeking a path to profitability. The founder tells TechCrunc... |
| Jul 26, 2013 | Pulitzer prize-winning author Junot Díaz uses Rap Genius (YC S11) to creatively annotate his works | Pulitzer prize-winning author Junot Díaz has laid bare the inspirations behind parts of his celebrated 2008 novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in a series of annotations to the text posted on a social media site that lets rap, rock ... |
| Jul 5, 2013 | Science He Wrote: Hip-Hop Legend GZA’s Geekiest Hits | Editor’s note: This post was originally published by our partners at PopSugar Tech.
More than 20 years after Wu-Tang Clan released their 1993 critically acclaimed debut album, Enter the Wu-Tang, one of Rolling Stones’ 500 greatest albums of... |
| May 14, 2013 | YC alums named in Fast Company Most Creative 2013: Apoorva Mehta, Katelyn Gleason, Mahbod Moghadam | Apoorva Mehta is the CEO of Instacart, a nearly year-old grocery delivery service that has already raised $2.3 million. For just $4 plus tip–roughly the price of a cup of Blue Bottle’s finest drip–Instacart customers can order food online f... |
| May 6, 2013 | Monday In Tech And Hip-Hop: Sheryl Sandberg Joins RapGenius, Everyone’s Obsessed With Snoop’s New App | Mondays aren’t always smile-inducing, but today two news stories cropped up that were pretty fun — and showed the increasing crossover between the worlds of technology and hip-hop.
First, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg signed up for a verifie... |
| May 3, 2013 | MA Teen Arrested And Held Without Bail For Posting Supposed 'Terrorist Threat' On Facebook | I’m going to take a guess and say the national Terrorism Mood Ring is still set to ‘OVERREACT’ if this story is any indication. Cameron D’Ambrosio, a Methuen, MA high school student, was arrested May 1st and charged with “communicating terr... |
| May 1, 2013 | Rap Genius Reveals Its Business Model Will Be ‘Enterprise Genius’ Collaborative Annotation Tool | How could a site for explaining rap lyrics make good on its $15 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz? Because it’s also a collaborative text-annotation platform that enterprises are asking for. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, the Rap Ge... |
| May 1, 2013 | Rap Genius Will Now Save Journalism Thanks to ‘News Genius’ | The future of news. (Photo: Instagram/Owen Thomas)
The bros from Rap Genius opened up the final day of TechCrunch Disrupt NY with a very special announcement. They’re launching soon a new vertical called News Genius, which follows the parad... |
| May 1, 2013 | Are Rap Genius’s founders insane, or is it just a gimmick? | Most startup founders fresh off raising $15 million from Andreessen Horowitz would show up at a tech conference ready to prove themselves further. Not the people behind Rap Genius.
Brooklyn-based Rap Genius offers a service for annotating s... |
| May 1, 2013 | Rap Genius Is Getting Into Breaking News Analysis With News Genius | The founders of lyric website Rap Genius revealed today that they’re starting to move into annotating news content too, under the name News Genius.
They were onstage at Disrupt NY, where they gave a surreal, joke-y interview without too muc... |
| May 1, 2013 | Are Rap Genius’s founders insane, or is it just a gimmick? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Most startup founders fresh off raising $15 milli... |
| May 1, 2013 | Rap Genius’ Co-Founder Apologizes To Zuck (Then Says They’ll Be Bigger Than Facebook) | If you aren’t at Disrupt NY or watchin’ the livestream back at home, you just missed something … pretty special.
Our own Josh Constine took the stage with the co-founders of Rap Genius, the text annotation service that recently raised $15M ... |
| Apr 26, 2013 | Rumor Roundup: Zuck’s in Hawaii, While Kevin Systrom Looks So Maj Next to Rachel Zoe | Ditching the suit for a swimsuit. (Photo: Flickr.com/gpaumier)
Hawaii Zuck-O Look who ditched the hoodie (but kept the Adidas sandals). Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was recently spotted indulging in a little Hawaiin R&R with wifey Prisc... |
| Apr 25, 2013 | Rap Genius: Brooklyn’s $15M venture-backed ‘lyrical OKCupid’ [Q&A] | You could call Rap Genius a “text annotation website,” but its founder says that’s selling the Brooklyn-based, venture-backed startup short. Better, he says: Rap Genius has probably discovered the next Kanye West. Or best: Rap Genius might ... |
| Apr 23, 2013 | TC Cribs: Inside LinkedIn, The Professional Social Network With A Surprisingly Casual HQ | It’s time for a brand spankin’ new edition of Cribs, the TechCrunch TV series where we snoop around inside the employee-only sections of the tech industry’s hottest companies.
Just like Walt Whitman, the tech industry contains multitudes, a... |
| Mar 9, 2013 | Bring On The Platform Wars! | Jon Evans Contributor
Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weekend columnist since 2010.
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| Mar 4, 2013 | 2010 Microsoft Wrote Some Checks That 2013 Microsoft Can’t Cash | MG Siegler Contributor
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The RapGenius breakdowns of recent Andrew Mason and Warren Buffet statements by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz are, well... |
| Mar 2, 2013 | Rap Genius responds to Heroku’s call for ‘respect’ amid allegations of fraud | A couple days ago, we sat down with Heroku general manager Oren Teich to talk about an ongoing PR and customer service problem: allegations by a small startup, Rap Genius, that Heroku had intentionally misled and overcharged its customers b... |
| Mar 2, 2013 | Marc Andreessen And Ben Horowitz ‘Decode’ Groupon CEO Andrew Mason’s Farewell Memo — On Rap Genius | When Andreessen Horowitz invested a whopping $15 million into Rap Genius this past fall, they were keen to point out that the platform can be used for decoding more than song lyrics, and extend to other forms of wordplay — literature, histo... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | The Foul-Mouthed Founders Of Rap Genius Will Stir Up Trouble At TechCrunch Disrupt NY | There are not a lot of startups who’ve both raised $15 million from a top investor like Andreessen Horowitz but have also told Mark Zuckerberg and Warren Buffet to fellate them.
We’re not shy about controversy, though, so I’ll be interviewi... |
| Feb 28, 2013 | Heroku chief opens up about Rap Genius, legendary hires, & developers’ woman problem | In the moments before Heroku’s developer conference, Waza, kicks off, its general manager, Oren Teich, took a few moments to talk to VentureBeat about his company’s values, its successes, and its struggles.
Although it’s possibly the least ... |
| Feb 24, 2013 | Remember CliffNotes? This Startup Could Wipe It Out | Gustty via Flickr Rap Genius, the lyrics site that breaks down the meaning behind rap songs, has launched a new project called Poetry Brain.
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Instead of annotating rap songs, Poetry Brain offers crowdsourced annotations of clas... |
| Feb 24, 2013 | Remember CliffNotes? This Startup Could Wipe It Out | Gustty via Flickr Rap Genius, the lyrics site that breaks down the meaning behind rap songs, has launched a new project called Poetry Brain.
Instead of annotating rap songs, Poetry Brain offers crowdsourced annotations of classic literary t... |
| Feb 21, 2013 | Rap Genius Cofounder Is Soliciting Diss Tracks About Warren Buffett, Tells 82-Year-Old Investor to Suck His @$%* | Mark Zuckerberg is hardly the first billionaire turned off by the antics of Rap Genius cofounder Mahbod Moghadam. As Betabeat learned while reporting a feature on the startup’s $15 million investment round from Andreessen Horowitz, Mr. Mogh... |
| Feb 15, 2013 | 'Offensive Lyric' Prompts Epic Records To Attempt The Impossible: 'Erase' The Track From The Web | The general rule of thumb is: once something's on the internet, it's there for good. But this simple fact eludes a great many people, many of whom demand the internet erase all the bad stuff or they'll sue/pass legislation. But you simply c... |
| Feb 14, 2013 | Heroku Admits To Performance Degradation Over The Past 3 Years After Criticism From Rap Genius | Heroku, the popular cloud application platform, may not be quite as fast today as it was three years ago. Yesterday, Rap Genius‘ James Somers , posted a widely read blog post, arguing that Heroku had quietly changed the way it distributes t... |
| Feb 14, 2013 | Yes, The Founder Of Hot Startup Rap Genius Really Did Just Say What You Think He Said | Twitter Rap Genius' co-founder Mahbod Moghadam isn't afraid to say what's on his mind.
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In an interview with tech newsletter Wakefield, Mahbod ripped Mark Zuckerberg and the New York Times with pretty vulgar language.
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| Feb 14, 2013 | Yes, The Founder Of Hot Startup Rap Genius Really Did Just Say What You Think He Said | Twitter Rap Genius' co-founder Mahbod Moghadam isn't afraid to say what's on his mind.
In an interview with tech newsletter Wakefield, Mahbod ripped Mark Zuckerberg and the New York Times with pretty vulgar language.
Rap Genius is a site th... |
| Jan 16, 2013 | Startup News: Warby Parker Ate Way Too Much Salad and Sold a Lot of Monocles This Year | Katie Couric in Warby Parker. (Photo: Facebook.com)
Rose-Colored Glasses Warby Parker just released its annual report for 2012, and it’s a pretty fun slideshow to click through. The glasses empire now has 113 full-time employes and 42 part-... |
| Jan 7, 2013 | Now With More Genius: GZA Will Join Us Onstage At The Crunchies | The 6th Annual Crunchies Awards promises to be the best yet. We’ve announced the finalists who are all excited to don their most formal hoodies and join us for tech’s big night. The Daily Show’s John Oliver will be our evening’s host and th... |
| Nov 29, 2012 | Meet Rapt.fm, The Startup That Lets Rappers Show Their Skills With Freestyle Battles On The Web | Rap music has certainly evolved over the decades to become a pretty mainstream thing, but the act of rapping itself is not exactly seen as a commonplace hobby.
But Detroit-based entrepreneur Erik Torenberg thinks that’s something that shoul... |
| Nov 26, 2012 | Rap Genius CoFounder Searching for a Lucky Lady to Eat Sushi Off His Penis | The cofounders behind the lyric annotation database RapGenius are kind of like a trio of Tom Haverfords, albeit with a $15 million series A instead of a couple hundos from a certain mustachioed grump. In an attempt to further solidify their... |
| Nov 23, 2012 | Who will launch Rap Genius for healthcare to translate EOBs and CMS rules? | This is a Nelly and those are his Grillz
Here’s another example: Nelly’s song Grillz gets explained thusly: “Got 30 down at the bottom, 30 more at the top, all invisible set in little ice cube blocks” refers to the fact that Nelly is wearin... |
| Nov 5, 2012 | Rap Genius Cofounder Responds to ‘The Haters’ with Yet Another Diss Video | Last Friday, Betabeat followed up on reports from author Byron Crawford about offensive racist IMs shared in one of Rap Genius’ editor chatrooms. (For those of you unfamiliar with Rap Genius: A. Where the hell have you been? And B. Here’s o... |
| Nov 4, 2012 | “Greed Trumps Race”: How To Be A Successful (African) American in Silicon Valley | Editor’s note: Dr. Paul Judge is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He is chief research officer at Barracuda Networks, co-founder and Chairman of Pindrop and Limitless Smart Shot, and previously led three companies to successful exits. Fo... |
| Oct 17, 2012 | Mo’ Money for Rap Genius: Impish Ivy Leaguers Raise Millions for Internet Decoder Ring | Visitors who search for Harlem rapper Azealia Banks’s breakout hit “212,” on Rap Genius, an online platform that crowdsources explanations of hip-hop lyrics, will find nearly every verse annotated by the site’s users, who clocked more than ... |
| Oct 5, 2012 | Rumor Roundup: Eric Schmidt’s BlackBerry Problem, a Foursquare Stalker & Sheryl Sandberg’s Frenemy | Meme-tastic! (Photo: Politicker)
If your week was as hellish hectic as ours, you must be in need of a stiff drink. Pour yourself a cocktail and get comfy: here comes this week’s rumor roundup.
Step Away from the Crackberry! In case you miss... |
| Oct 4, 2012 | Rap Genius Raises $15M from Andreessen Horowitz | Rap Genius, a web site where people explain rap lyrics, has raised $15m from Andreessen Horowitz.
Explaining the investment (read here, Marc Andreessen said they invested in the company because of the community, its potential to expand beyo... |
| Oct 3, 2012 | Andreessen Horowitz Invests $15M In Text Annotation Startup Rap Genius | Here’s an investment out of left field, but not really. Andreessen Horowitz is dropping $15 million into startup Rap Genius. It’s not just about rap, though. Think of it as “crowdsourced explanations of lyrics and historical texts.”
Here’s ... |
| Oct 3, 2012 | Ben Horowitz And The Founders Explain Why A16Z Put $15M Into Rap Genius: “Knowledge About Knowledge” | Ben Horowitz loves hip-hop, but in an interview with TechCrunch he outlined a deeper vision behind his firm’s $15M investment into Rap Genius. “Knowledge about knowledge over time becomes as important as the knowledge itself”, said Horowitz... |
| Oct 3, 2012 | Andreessen Horowitz invests $15M in hip hop Wikipedia Rap Genius | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Apr 20, 2012 | Venture Capital slightly down in Q1 2012, while Splunk IPO surges | reader comments 3 with 3 posters participating
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| Mar 22, 2012 | Deal Sites Selling Deals On Deals Sites: Google Offers Discount on Design Discounter One Kings Lane | Betabeat received a very meta treat in our inbox this morning: a link to this Google Offers deal sent along by a tipster who appended the Kanye-esque hashtag #salesonsalesonsales. The Google deal apparently offers a 50 percent discount to b... |
| Mar 20, 2012 | The Top Tech News (and Parties) From SXSW Music | As tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurs nursed their hangovers and headed home after SXSW Interactive, there were still newsworthy launches, panels, and campaigns going on at SXSW Music. MOG hinted at its future revenue streams, Sean Parker p... |
| Nov 30, 2011 | Hip Hop Don’t Stop: Rap Genius Aims To Explain…Everything | “We need more uppers in our verticals,” joked Mahbod Moghadam, co-founder of Rap Genius, sipping water from a gallon jug at the Modca coffee shop in Williamsburg. The site is akin to Wikipedia, with a community of users explaining and annot... |
| Nov 4, 2011 | Rap Genius Plans to Explain The Meaning Of Rock, Poetry and The Bible | If rap lyrics like “Real G’s move in silence like lasagna” stump you, check out Rap Genius. The crowdsourced hip-hop lyrics explanation site will inform you that Lil Wayne is describing how skilled gangsters can assassinate someone without ... |
| Nov 1, 2011 | Three’s a Trend: Another Rapper Spits a Line About Tumblr | Childish Gambino, AKA, Donald Glover, AKA, Troy from 'Community', AKA Another Rapper On Tumblr.
Yesterday, we noted that—following in Odd Future’s lead—yet another “hot” rap act has dropped a reference to Tumblr in one of his songs: critica... |
| Oct 31, 2011 | Rapper Pusha T Lays Down Diss…on Tumblr! | Pusha T does not care for your Tumblrarity.
What tipping point is represented when your startup and/or social network is being referenced by some of the most popular rappers being listened to at the moment?
Whatever it is—and whatever it re... |
| Sep 22, 2011 | Why lyrics are the consumer web’s next big thing, again | The next big thing for the consumer web could actually come from one of its oldest content verticals: lyrics. Services like RapGenius and TuneWiki are spearheading a new way of publishing and making money from song lyrics.
Lyrics are a mass... |
| Sep 22, 2011 | Why lyrics are the consumer web’s next big thing, again | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The next big thing for the consumer web could act... |
| Who will launch Rap Genius for healthcare to translate EOBs and CMS rules? | So I read an article the other day about a new company called Rap Genius. The company consists primarily of a website that relies on crowdsourcing to explain rap lyrics to the masses who are not down with the urban vibe (aka, people over 30... |
| Now you can pay online for your McChicken or McVeggie, McDonalds adds a payment gateway | According to the recent survey by IAMAI, 59% of the 3,480 respondents used credit cards to shop online and 28% used debit cards while 40% paid cash on delivery. This simply denotes that Cash On Delivery is currently popular mode of transact... |
