This just comes across as petty and a low-blow to the website for no apparent reason.Hip-hop star J. The principles behind RapGenius exist in the minds of EVERYBODY who listens to music for its lyrical substance, they’re just bringing it to the light.īut again, to each his own. I just don’t see how people can demonize it as if it’s doing something so radically different and regressive to hip-hop music. I understand if you don’t use the site, whatever.
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Lyrics, and especially those in hip-hop music, can be hugely misinterpreted and purely out of their love for the art they put the effort into decoding these lyrics for free just so people can know what they mean. Many odd references have been decoded by RapGenius, but people seem to allude to the fact that they make mistakes as a way to completely dismantle the foundation of the site when in reality they’re only reinforcing the ideals behind it. And for the most part, they do a pretty exceptional job of that. Like I said, RG isn’t about saying exactly what the lyrics mean, it’s about speculating and giving listeners some sort of insight into their meaning. I wouldn’t consider it a prescriptive exegesis though. You all seem very biased and generally unintelligent to me, but I could be wrong since that’s purely SPECULATION. That’s because you’re all missing the fundamental idea behind RapGenius, which is -speculating- what lyrics mean and not giving -absolutely definitive- answers. Many explanations on RG have actually been confirmed as wrong by the artists themselves, but it hasn’t stopped them. It’s a forum where people can explain rap lyrics, and even when somebody is only using the site to explain lyrics, it’s still a forum. RapGenius is as much the messiah of hip-hop as KanyeToThe or any other hip-hop forum. However, you guys have the entire goal of the website misconstrued. For example, what is he supposed to say about “A fuck nigga, that’s that shit I don’t like”? Everything is explained within the line. I partially agree with this article in that not all rap music can be explained. You sound like YOU have missed the point. I would like to see where they state that lyrics are the most important part of hip-hop. Whatever the people at Rap Genius are smoking, it’s definitely interfering with their understanding of rap. Chief Keef smokes a lot (a lot of rappers do), but at least he can still function. Rap is more than lyrics and it’s definitely more than geniuses fools attempting to explain it. By posting this video, Rap Genius tried to cover up the underlying silliness of its mission, but ended up exposing it even further. Tone, mood, rhythm, cadence, flow and a million other things are just as important as the actual ABCs. Even if he did, wordplay is only one aspect of hip-hop. Let’s be real: Chief Keef doesn’t give a damn about wordplay. Being high had nothing to do with Chief Keef’s lack of explanation. The real idiots are the folks at Rap Genius. Rap Genius uploaded a video of the interaction, in which Keith is clearly not comprehending how the site works, taking a page from Media Takeout’s playbook by titling it “Chief Keef Gets TOO HIGH to Explain his Lyrics on Rap Genius.” In the video, surrounded by Rap Genius employees and filmed by the shakiest camera of all time, Chief Keef is presented as an idiot.
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These “final” (read: pretentious) explanations limit the meanings of songs and support the fiction that all rap lyrics actually have a meaning in the first place.Īttempting to crack The Meaning of some Chief Keef songs, Rap Genius brought the precocious Chicago native into their offices and asked him to give them some explanations of some of his songs. Though the site’s mission to explain rap lyrics is ostensibly admirable and simple, the site has repeatedly disrespected hip-hop culture by offering unequivocal explanations of poetry. Rap Genius‘s sophistry has reached unprecedented levels. But making fun of Chief Keef (read: beating a dead horse) was a low stoop. Maybe that point wasn’t expressed so clearly. C-section trolls, remember, this issue ain’t about Rap Genius’s legitimacy so much as its foray into the world of PR, where buzz and hits are dollars and cents. Rap Genius has since retitled this video “CHIEF KEEF rolls through RAP GENIUS.” Which was the right thing to do.
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