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Re:N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section by steveklabnik on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @01:13PM (#6328932)
My understanding was that RapGenius was always a text annotation platform, with the hip-hop stuff serving as an exemplar, rather than being the actual product.
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Re:N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section by jere on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @01:35PM (#6329083)
Always a text annotation platform? That's a bit revisionist from what I've read.

Fred Wilson initially told them "I think lyrics is a very crowded space and almost entirely reliant on Google for traffic" and they admitted "our pitch back then was a bit too lyrics-focused.."

http://news.rapgenius.com/Lemon-how-rap-genius-raised-s18m-i...

You can find those quotes in an annotation in the above link (which makes me realize the problem with annotations is you can't ctrl-f them).

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Re:N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section by wwarnerandrew on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @01:42PM (#6329114)
Here is a permalink for that annotation: http://news.rapgenius.com/1900809

You can get that by clicking "share" in the annotation footer

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Re:N-gram Analysis of the New York Times Weddings Section by steveklabnik on Wednesday September 04, 2013 @02:45PM (#6329564)
Fair enough! I don't have a citation for my understanding, I just read waaaaay too much HN, and that's what was stuck in my brain. Thanks for clarifying.
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