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monetization opportunities. Features that went live with launch allowed fans to vote directly on the set list, request shoutouts from the artist, join the Watch Party for a chance to be featured on stream, do a virtual meet and greet, and contribute to collective rewards such as unlocking a unreleased song. Custom merchandise created specifically for the Genius Live show also goes on sale with the performance. Artists that have been booked by the Artist
Relations team since launch include
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highlighting fragments of text. Texts on Genius are sorted into various topic channels, including rap, rock, and pop music, literature, news, historical texts (History Genius), sports, television and film (Screen Genius), and "X"—any other subject not covered by other categories. The site formerly offered the "Rap Map", a
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Genius pivoted part of its original content strategy to focus on a livestream approach, most notably with a new series, "Genius Live", hosted directly on the site. Its intent is to be a new platform focusing on facilitating artist to fan interactions and providing direct
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for the unlicensed online publication of song lyrics. Unlike Genius, most of the sites that were targeted were ad-supported. In response, Zechory stated that they "can't wait to have a conversation with them about how all writers can participate in and benefit from the Rap Genius knowledge project".
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began a partnership with Genius on their "Behind the Lyrics" feature, which displayed lyrics and content from Genius for selected tracks, allowing users to "watch annotated lyrics for songs as you listen to them". Initially, bringing up the album art while playing a track revealed a black tab behind
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Works and articles on Genius are annotated by community members with various lines highlighted in gray (approved annotations); by clicking on these lines, pop-up "tates" are displayed, which provide additional details and context for the lyrics in question. Users can provide their own annotations by
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On July 12, 2014, reflecting its recent expansions and growth into a platform, Rap Genius relaunched as Genius. The co-founders said that the change was because most internet users fail to "dive into" stories they find in greater detail, and that Genius aimed to "help us all realize the richness and
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Prior to the creation of this site, there were websites specifically for searching up lyrics, such as AZLyrics or SongMeanings, some were meant for specific genres, others include guitar tabs or MIDI with them (as in
Karaoke). Few lyric sites of the time actually embedded the songs that are meant to
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Genius began selling branded merchandise in mid-2016, and engaged in "a T-shirt collaboration with rapper Pusha T's Play Cloths line for Art Basel" in
December 2016. In 2017, Genius expanded its merchandise offerings with the launch of its "1997" collection, with a set of styles and themes inspired
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where Apple Music subscribers could play songs in full right from the site. In addition, Genius would provide lyrics for the main Apple Music service. On
February 4, 2020, Apple Music and Genius announced an expanded partnership, most visibly premiering flagship content series "Verified" on Apple
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annotation. Popular song pages also reward IQ to the transcriber as they reach certain view count milestones. IQ serves as measure of a community member's impact and work on the site. Editors and
Moderators gain additional means of obtaining IQ as a reward for quality assurance work on the site.
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It also received an additional $ 15 million in funding in 2018, bringing its total funding to $ 79 million since 2009. In June 2019, Genius accused Google of lifting lyrics from Genius.com without permission and publishing the lyrics directly in search pages on Google. This resulted in a drop of
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pages, as well as news related to the penalty. This happened after blogger and Rap Genius contributor John
Marbach exposed its link scheme to manipulate Google search results by offering Tweets or Facebook shares in exchange for linking to Rap Genius with keyword rich texts. Rap Genius posted an
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Registered users with 300 IQ unlock most features of the "contributor" role and can upload, edit, and annotate texts. They can also offer suggestions to improve already published texts and annotations. Editors, Moderators, and
Mediators, volunteers who are given the role by peer vote within the
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Genius community, help to generate and monitor content to ensure quality writing. Users can earn IQ with most interactions within the site, such as annotations, song transcription, votes, song page views, and also competitions/projects initiated by the Genius community and/or community staff.
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traffic to Genius.com. In
December 2019, this accusation escalated to a lawsuit filed in New York, seeking $ 50 million in combined minimum damages from Google and LyricFind, a Canadian Company that provides licensed lyrics to companies including Google, Amazon and Microsoft. Judge
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apology, promising to stop and reverse the practice. Rap Genius also pointed out that its competitors were participating in similar or worse practices, and asked Google to look at "the whole lyrics search landscape" and improve its lyric search results.
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Genius. The service also added the ability for outside publishers to integrate Rap Genius's platform into other websites to create annotated articles. However, the company also experienced some issues familiar to the online content field.
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Collective Sounds. Landmarks culturally important to the musical communities of the cities of Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, and Atlanta were spotlighted by the lyrics and pop culture moments that made them iconic. Artists
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It was created in August 2009 by founders Tom Lehman (who "entered the first line of code" for the website at 12:30 p.m. on August 19, 2009), Ilan
Zechory, and Mahbod Moghadam, the three of whom met during their undergraduate years at
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Music early, with Apple Music joining as co-producers on the show. The deal is viewed as part of a larger initiative by Apple to bring exclusive content to its platform amid competition from other digital streaming platforms like
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featured Rap Genius co-founder Mahbod Moghadam in its list of the Most Creative People of 2013. By early 2014, however, Moghadam had reduced his involvement in Genius to a part-time role, due to complications from his surgery for
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addresses. The News Genius platform was controversial because it allowed annotations to be added to websites, including personal websites, without the webmaster's consent and without an option to opt out of having annotations.
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display featuring profiles and placemarks for geographical locations related to rap culture or mentioned in rap songs. In 2021, a similar feature was launched in a branded campaign via collaboration with French cognac firm
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on January 28, 2014, also called "Genius". Genius co-founder Tom Lehman said at launch: "This is the true launch of Rap Genius. Right now, more than half of our traffic comes from mobile devices. Soon, it will be 100%".
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during the pandemic. Up and coming artists from around the world are given a chance to compete every Friday for coverage by the platform, most notably in the "Genius Freestyles" series spearheaded by the social team.
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of the transcribed songs, meaning that Genius did not hold the copyright to the lyrics and could not claim Google's display of them as a copyright violation. The dismissal was upheld in March 2022 upon appeal.
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the art reading "Behind the Lyrics", which gave users access to the feature. Later the feature was placed under the song player itself, where users could scroll up to reveal the full content piece.
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before a live audience. Genius held its first live concert event on September 9, 2017, with the IQ/BBQ festival at the Genius headquarters. The event featured performances by artists including
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be transcribed, and even fewer had annotations to explain subtleties like samples, interpolations, references to other lyrics, wordplay, double-entendres or rhyme-schemes.
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version was released in August 2015, and in 2016 and 2017, the company began producing music-focused original video content and hosting live events and concerts.
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that future redesigns could use elements from it, the redesign was not used. In mid-2015, along with its redesigned logo and webpage, Genius released its
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to annotate the various presidential debates being held at that time. The following month, Genius announced the hiring of Brendan Frederick, formerly of
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staff, though no official numbers were released. This was due to a "restructure" from MediaLab to shift the website's focus towards emerging artists.
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MediaLab in September 2021 for $ 80 million. Genius entered into agreement with MediaLab, who also own other viral websites and applications like
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Genius held a live event with Dropbox in 2018 called "Lyrics to Life," a four-day art exhibition featuring art installations inspired by music.
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that "pairs pop-up annotations with select tracks from the streaming service as well as exclusive artist content", launching with content from
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penalized Rap Genius for violating their backlinks guidelines,—particularly involvement with blog networks—by removing them from its top
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lyric. After Lehman built the earliest version of the site, he—along with cofounders Moghadam and Zechory—decided to leave their jobs at
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In 2021, Spotify's "Behind the Lyrics" feature was discontinued worldwide, and replaced with a new real-time lyrics feature, powered by
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Genius began hosting live events at their Brooklyn headquarters in 2017. On April 26, 2017, Genius hosted a listening party with rapper
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Genius began planning for the creation of original video content, and in June 2016 announced the hiring of Regina Dellea, previously of
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In 2014, Rap Genius entered into a licensing agreement with music publishers covering both past and future publishing of music lyrics.
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Ten days later, after removing links in violation of Google's Quality Guidelines, Rap Genius partially recovered from their penalty.
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described Genius as "one of the most important things we've ever funded". The company's three co-founders were named to the
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depth in every line of text". The company also raised an additional $ 40 million in series B funding led by investor
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In 2011, with the site "drawing over 1 million unique visitors per month", Rap Genius applied to start-up incubator
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crashed the Genius website, a rare case in which a single song rather than an album caused such an occurrence.
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also has a verified account with which he frequently joined discussions on the lyrics from his musicals
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in ways labeled as inappropriate. Moghadam died in March 2024 due to complications from a brain tumor.
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app was released. To reflect these new goals, the site relaunched as Genius in July 2014. An
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of Reuters was a noted early user, using the platform to create an annotated breakdown of
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enabling further growth. The site expanded in 2014 to cover other forms of media, such as
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has also been verified and has contributed several annotations. Composer and Lyricist
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dismissed the lawsuit in August 2020, finding that Genius' lyric transcriptions were
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were among those who created verified accounts. Pulitzer Prize winning author
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as the first subject. In September 2016, Genius announced the addition of
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also delivered personal accounts of what these places meant to them.
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3484:"The Hidden Spotify Feature We're Obsessed With Right Now"
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to pursue the idea full-time and bring it to fruition.
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2230:"Kanye West Tried To Redesign Rap Genius"
1707:. Search Engine Land. December 25, 2013.
1322:"Rap Genius Explains Why Worse is Better"
1270:O'Malley Greenburg, Zack (May 31, 2012).
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587:Relaunch as "Genius" and expanded funding
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3007:Alexander, Julia (August 11, 2020).
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1176:Connor, Jackson (January 12, 2016).
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647:Staff expansion and new partnerships
537:Expansion and rebranding (2014–2015)
314:Founding and early years (2009–2012)
310:" was difficult for users to spell.
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1514:GZA verified account on Rap Genius
1495:RZA verified account on Rap Genius
1464:Nas verified account on Rap Genius
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1395:Constine, Josh (October 3, 2012).
1272:"How Nas Became A True Rap Genius"
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3382:. Rap Genius. February 21, 1965.
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1818:. Rap Genius. December 24, 2013.
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1372:. Abovethelaw.com. July 2, 2010.
1370:"A 'Genius' Use of Deferral Time"
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813:for the release of Wale's album,
2698:Deahl, Dani (February 4, 2020).
2636:Deahl, Dani (October 11, 2018).
2488:Beggs, Alex (November 2, 2015).
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1893:"The Genius out in the cold"
1867:Gray, Tyler (May 13, 2013).
1765:Sisario, Ben (May 6, 2014).
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3229:"GeniusMusic on Twitch"
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2123:The Wall Street Journal
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1500:March 18, 2016, at the
249:Originally launched as
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542:New apps and features
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122:Ilan Zechory (former)
3406:"What is Genius IQ?"
2405:Fitzmaurice, Larry.
1422:"30 Under 30: Music"
860:Mariah the Scientist
2819:The Washington Post
2293:The Washington Post
1145:"Brands | MediaLab"
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