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?
― MrExplorer, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 03:33 (eight years ago) link
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
― MrExplorer, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 03:35 (eight years ago) link
And then nobody bothers to go back and flesh out annotations because the song is now "done"
― MrExplorer, Wednesday, 27 January 2016 03:38 (eight years ago) link
I think I made a similar comment recently in another Genius thread. Yes, it seems worse.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 04:46 (eight years ago) link
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.
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Wednesday, 27 January 2016 04:47 (eight years ago) link
http://genius.com/Twaimz-llama-song-annotated
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Monday, 22 February 2016 02:57 (eight years ago) link
yes, I am that llama, that llama you despise, with those big ass eyes, and them luscious thighs.
Jesus motherfucking christ
― you are no man. take the balls. (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 February 2016 04:43 (eight years ago) link
I see they are now doing bizarre videos toohttps://youtu.be/g3c_AXMR5CE
― niels, Saturday, 3 February 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a22709637/sacha-baron-cohen-genius-founder-mahbod-moghadam/
― Hakim Bae's TMZ (s.clover), Thursday, 23 August 2018 01:56 (five years ago) link