RapGenius thread

sometimes when i google for rap lyrics and find some bunk misheard bullshit i wonder why someone would 1) be feeling a track that they can't even understand the lyrics to

Wait, isn't this why people google for rap lyrics?

nah i mean dudes that are sitting there listening to a styles p song and are feeling it enough to type out the lyrics. "'knockin everyday, struggle with BI / malcolm rake one ghost-face purple tape' man styles got bars. i gotta get this on the internet."

Very tempted to start a site called crapgenius.com, a WebMD/rapgenius hybrid where users can submit stool samples for others to examine for their medical significance.

i wonder why someone would 1) be feeling a track that they can't even understand the lyrics to

pretty much my entire relationship to pop music for pretty much my entire life has been feeling tracks i don't understand the lyrics to,

BUT WHY WOULD YOU BE FEELING A STYLES TRACK THAT YOU CAN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND
IT'S NOT KESHA OKAY IT'S SERIOUS RAP MUSIC

this is like a perfect storm of bad internet: rapper that Rap Genius editors don't care about has lots of sloppy inaccurate RG lyric transcriptions, Buzzfeed does listicle of cuh-razy lyrics by that rapper that are mostly completely wrong RG transcriptions

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/14-bizarre-lyrics-that-prove-flo-rida-knows-no-one-can-under

yeezus wept ;_;

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/fashion/anger-management-why-the-genius-founders-turned-to-couples-therapy.html

music streaming services like spotify integrate their own lyrics into the programs now, like spotify with musicmatch, taking a huge chunk of hits away. the annotations thing is very good when done well though, obviously.

lol the mogador. mess

I guess we can put this here (disclaimer: the review in question was written by me) http://themuse.jezebel.com/genius-annotates-a-pitchfork-review-and-every-music-cri-1755277152

wow

When you come under a microscope that assholish, you must be doing something right. Keep up the good work, Katherine!

that all makes sense, but i think it's hard to say what the quality of the site will look like in a few years, as the community grows and becomes more vigilantly self-policing. wikipedia is a lot less amateurish now, i think, than it was when it started, and a similar thing might happen with rapgenius.

― Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the (Treeship), Sunday, June 30, 2013 8:22 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is it just me or in the 2 and a half years since this comment has rap genius actually gotten much much worse?

It seems like with unpopular artists the annotations are super thin (same with pop music that doesn't even need annotating but is on the site for some reason anyways) , and with popular artists its all a race to fill up the song as fast as possible so that many things get overlooked, hooks that change throughout a song now all get the same annotation, entire verses are lumped together under a singer annotation that only explains a single line, etc etc

And then nobody bothers to go back and flesh out annotations because the song is now "done"

I think I made a similar comment recently in another Genius thread. Yes, it seems worse.

def seems like there was a time when it was relatively useful, like you could actually use it to help do a good close reading of lyrics, and now it's just this ridiculous free-for-all.

http://genius.com/Twaimz-llama-song-annotated

yes, I am that llama, that llama you despise, with those big ass eyes, and them luscious thighs.

Jesus motherfucking christ

I see they are now doing bizarre videos too
https://youtu.be/g3c_AXMR5CE

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a22709637/sacha-baron-cohen-genius-founder-mahbod-moghadam/