Rap Genius Partners with Warner/Chappell Music by Genius Founders Lyrics
Rap Genius announced today that it entered into a licensing arrangement with Warner/Chappell Music (WCM). With this deal, Rap Genius joins a select group of websites with a lyrics catalog fully licensed by the major music publishers
Rap Genius founder Ilan Zechory said:WCM's songwriters are unbelievably popular and Rap Genius will help them connect with their most obsessed fans. WCM dates back more than 200 years – we think this partnership will last at least another 200.On Rap Genius, fans and the artists themselves explore lyrics interactively via line-by-line annotations that they can read, create, and edit as part of a worldwide knowledge project. Beyond music, it is the definitive source of annotated texts online, including poetry, news, history, science, the Bible, and much more.
Rap Genius founder Ilan Zechory said:WCM's songwriters are unbelievably popular and Rap Genius will help them connect with their most obsessed fans. WCM dates back more than 200 years – we think this partnership will last at least another 200.On Rap Genius, fans and the artists themselves explore lyrics interactively via line-by-line annotations that they can read, create, and edit as part of a worldwide knowledge project. Beyond music, it is the definitive source of annotated texts online, including poetry, news, history, science, the Bible, and much more.