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As a rap fan I always felt it was silly for Genius to try and expand beyond it's niche.

The only time I've ever used the site was to look up rap lyrics. It does that extremely well, but would I really trust the Rap Lryic site to explain the Magna Carta?

You have to tell VCs something to get those sweet sweet checks.

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The entry for If by Rudyard Kipling warms my heart https://genius.com/1247142

Thank you, that's a poem I'll need re read from time to time.

How did you find this though, are you a rap fan? Maybe Rap genius could have split itself into two brands ?

Academic genius, and Rap genius

I want to say they tried some different brandings for different areas at some point.

Not the OP but I found the site back when it was frequently on top the Google search results for any lyrics, but it's a fun site to browse and I even contributed a few things over the years.

I was making a presentation on web bloat and was researching the extremes of content to container ratio. In this case its 1544 bytes for the poem vs 3 MB for the page (with uBlock).

If they ever collaborated with sparknotes on a product they could have had their vision and made money hand over fist. No clue if sparknotes is nearly so popular among students today, but in my time 10 years ago it was one of the most used websites right behind wikipedia for students.

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