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Rap Genius rebrands itself ‘Genius’ as part of mission to ‘annotate the world’

Jul

2014

Rap Genius is ditching the rap part of its name. Genius does for everything what Rap Genius did for rap, Ben Horowitz, an early Rap Genius investor, said in a statement today. Describing the internet as the greatest store of knowledge in human history, co-founders Tom Lehman and Ilan Zechory claim that people often gloss […]

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Startup Founder Fired for Crass Calif. Shooting Remarks

May

2014

The co-founder of annotation service Rap Genius has been turfed out after making stunningly tasteless remarks on the manifesto of Santa Barbara shooter Elliot Rodger. Mahbod Moghadam called the 141-page document “beautifully written” and speculated that the shooter’s sister is “smokin hot.” Rap Genius CEO Tom Lehman said Moghadam had…

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Rap Genius launches iPhone app, a ‘pocket guide to human culture’

Jan

2014

Rap Genius today launched an official iOS app that lets users dig into the sites massive archive of song lyrics, poetry, news articles, and other text, along with the many annotations that have been added by the Rap Genius community. The company — fresh off a temporary rift between itself and Google — boldly describes its […]

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Rap Genius rebrands itself ‘Genius’ as part of mission to ‘annotate the world’

Startup Founder Fired for Crass Calif. Shooting Remarks

Rap Genius launches iPhone app, a ‘pocket guide to human culture’

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