It’s hard to believe it, but 17 years ago today, Hip Hop and the world lost one of the greatest of all time, Tupac Shakur. His music lives on through our headphones, today’s rising stars like Kendrick Lamar, and on Rap Genius where his fans have annotated his entire discography.
Let’s take time today to celebrate the artist, the poet, the rose who grew in the concrete.
We’re building anticipation for Atlanta’s A3C Festival by counting down the top verified annotations from artists who will be performing there. Check out highlights from Rapsody, Rome Fortune, Ferg, Schoolboy Q, and Jean Grae here!
Eminem joined ESPN announcers Brent Musberger and Kirk Herbstreit in the booth at halftime of the Michigan vs. Notre Dame game to premier the new video for “Berzerk” and promote his track, that will serve as the intro for Saturday Night Football on ESPN this season. It was kinda awkward and all kinds of hilarious.
Atlanta’s A3C festival is coming up, so we’re bringing you the best verified annotations from the artists performing there. Part 1 of our countdown has R.A. the Rugged Man talking about how he was the years-too-early version of Eminem, Pharoahe Monch on the Trayvon verdict, Dee-1 wanting to stop “Stop Snitching,” and more. See them all here!
Albany Emcee Masai has joined RapGenius and to celebrate, he dropped another video from his latest project Almost Home right here on RG! Check out this Jack of All Trades produced song about the power our decisions make with some insight from the man himself!
Etgar Keret is one of the funniest fiction writers working today. In the story “What Do We Have In Our Pockets?” his heartsick narrator breaks down the various items he’s stuffed into his pants. And today on Poetry Genius, Keret breaks down the story itself.
His notes are a cheerful jumble, a pocketful of stuff he felt like sharing: insights on honesty and fiction, the only thing he won’t do for someone he loves, and more…
The talented Monster Mike and Vic Spencer dropped this new track “The Newport 500” produced by the The Jet Age of Tomorrow. Check out their breakdown of the song where they talk about people waiting for Jordans, #FreeCasso, listening to your own music, and more!
This episode of Outside the Lines With Rap Genius, we have a talk with one of hip-hop’s first superstars. Guy Williams, better known as Rahiem (of all the ladies' dreams), from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. The Five took their sound and style from parties in the Bronx to stages all over the world, while having massive, world-changing hit songs like “The Message” and “White Lines.” We talked to Rahiem about his life and times with the Five and afterwards, and got some incredible tales of his, and a whole genre’s, rise to the top
