Atlanta-based producer/artist Genius has been churning out his Slumchat mixtape series, and today he releases the fifth installment exclusively via XXL. The nearly 90-minute tape is dedicated to the one and only Gucci Mane just 24 hours after his well-documented release from prison.
Streaming juggernaut Spotify and leading lyric annotation site Genius have teamed up for a new initiative that brings lyrics and facts about songs straight to Spotify playlists.
If nothing else, Eminem is thorough. Having come up as a battle rapper, then a syllable-obsessed wunderkind who plied his way into every living room in America, the Detroit rapper has only become more of a fine craftsman. And where better to explain the minutiae of your work than on Genius...
As part of their effort to shed more light on 1997 and 1998 in New York hip-hop, MTV and Genius have unearthed Cam'ron's first video interview. The '98 sit-down is Cam stripped down to his base elements--before the furs, before the self-mythologizing, before Juelz...
Michael Bolton might not seem like a fixture in hip-hop, but he just explained how he became a key piece on a seminal rap album. Writing for the website Genius, the famous singer explained how lines he sung ended up in the chorus of Kanye West's Jay Z- and J...