The Guardian’s incoming National Security editor Spencer Ackerman drops his verified knowledge bombs on Eric Holder’s recent report to Congress on the controversial U.S. drone strike program. Needless to say, the subtext is a quagmire of constitutional law and questionable ethics. Thankfully, with expert help, we’ve peeled back the layers to bring the facts to light.
Meme drugmaker Actavis, Inc. yesterday acquired US healthcare company Warner Chilcott for $8.5 billion in stock, surpassing the cost of the Tumblr deal 8 times over. A story of tax loopholes, international business, and the confused pharmaceutical world, Actavis' acquisition is a model for today’s global business environment. Check out the exclusive News Genius breakdown!
Newly verified artist French Montana just dropped his first album. We have all the lyrics, plus French broke down some of the lyrics! He talks about Max B, finally getting his Visa, breaks down “Ain’t Worried About Nothin”, and more!
He charted in the german album charts at nine with his masterpiece “Endlich Unendlich”.
Now he took some time to explain some of his extraordinary wordplay. Want an example? Here you go:
As the jukebox teases, watch my sistas throat the heartbreak,
Inhaling bassline, cracking backbone and singing thru hips.
In a beautiful convergence of hip-hop and poetry, writer, teacher, National Poetry Slam legend, and “word woman” extraordinaire Patricia Smith has broken down her “Hip-Hop Ghazal” on Rap Genius. Check out the poem and her annotations!
Daft Punk’s fourth studio album, “Random Access Memories” comes eight years after “Human After All.” As the title suggests, they were “drawing a parallel between the brain and the hard drive – the random way that memories are stored.”
- Give Life Back to Music
- The Game of Love
- Giorgio By Moroder
- Within
- Instant Crush
- Lose Yourself to Dance
- Touch
- Get Lucky
- Beyond
- Motherboard
- Fragments of Time
- Doin' It Right
- Contact
Check out Stereo IQ’s review of Random Access Memories for the Huffington Post here, and peep our video breakdown for their hit single Get Lucky over here!
Austrian rapper RAF Camora aka RAF 3.0 is now verified on Rap Genius and breakin down his lyrics.
Ezra Koenig (on Junior Reid’s “One Blood”): “Yeah, this is such a classic song. It’s been sampled a lot. And I always liked the message of the song, one blood, unity of man message. But there’s always something kind of haunting about the phrase "Modern Vampires Of The City.” And at first there was something that seemed kind of funny about calling a Vampire Weekend album Modern Vampires Of The City, but then I do feel like there’s some deeper resonance there too."
We already took it back with Snoop DOGG’s verified breakdowns of his classic tracks, but now Snoop Lion is here to take you inside the lines of his latest album REINCARNATED
Find out why Snoop chose Miley, who Snoop said went “body guard hard” on the album, what it means to live the ‘rebel way’, what he’s the most tired of and much more.
In celebration of the brand new FREE Reincarnated Track Notes App, available on iTunes now, we give you Snoop Lion!
