Since Rap Genius is a YC company, that is unlikely.
This also isn't the first time a YC company has had ethical issues called out on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711
This also isn't the first time a YC company has had ethical issues called out on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711
They aren't using HN to submit content spam. (fwiw, there was another YC startup in a similar niche doing just that earlier this year. That startup appears to be dead/zombie now.)