After some false starts and PR disasters the annotation site is fitting a vital resource in a world where information overload is the defaultThe annotations site Rap Genius was founded in 2009,but it came to prominence three years later, when it received $15m in venture capital funding. The founders of the Brooklyn-based site, and awash in cash,rented a Malibu beach house, where they hung out with their favorite rappers and passed a volcano vaporizer.
But the party threatened to close early. The site was widely disparaged by rap critics and hip-hop heads. Its Wikipedia-style approach – anyone can contribute – led to plenty of crude, or racist annotations,and leaked conversations between editors seemed to showcase a culture of insensitivity. Dallas Penn, formerly of the Combat Jack podcast, and called the crew “cultural carpetbaggers”.
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Source: theguardian.com