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Editors’ picks
- Lil Wayne – Nah This Ain't the Remix Lyrics
- Wale – 88 Lyrics
- Lil Wayne – Live From 504 Lyrics
- Hypertext – True Hallucinations Lyrics
- IAM – Marvel Lyrics
- The Holy Karon – Murderous Tendencies Lyrics
- Drake – Girls Love Beyoncé Lyrics
- Ice Cube – It Was a Good Day Lyrics
- Lil Wayne – Hello Lyrics
- Kanye West – I'm In It Lyrics
Popular songs
- Kanye West – Blood On The Leaves Lyrics
- Kanye West – New Slaves Lyrics
- Kanye West – Bound 2 Lyrics
- Macklemore and Ryan Lewis – Same Love Lyrics
- Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines Lyrics
- 2 Chainz & Wiz Khalifa – We Own It (Fast & Furious) Lyrics
- Wale – Bad Lyrics
- Kanye West – Hold My Liquor Lyrics
- Kanye West – On Sight Lyrics
- J. Cole – Rich Niggaz Lyrics
- J. Cole – Crooked Smile Lyrics
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Are you in the DC or NYC areas? Are you gifted when it comes to understanding Wale’s lyrics? Break down a bar from his new lyrical gem “88” for your chance to win a pair of tickets AND an advance copy of his new album, The Gifted.
Each day we’ll release a new song and tomorrow and Friday we’ll premiere lyrics for UNRELEASED tracks with 2 winners every day — so stay tuned!
DC show: June 23 @ Howard Theater
NYC show: June 24 @ Best Buy Theater
Make sure you tweet your breakdowns to @RapGenius and @Wale with #TheGifted. More info here
Purchase tickets for the album release shows here
Pre-order Wale’s album, The Gifted on iTunes now!!!
Pick up the album today and check out all the lyrics here. Don’t forget to check Mac Miller’s verified annotations all over “S.D.S.” and “Goosebumpz”
Peep his verified account here
Yeezy goes in on this album with his infamous “New Slaves” and “Black Skinhead” as well as the long-awaited “I Am God.” New tracks to look out for are “I’m In It” and “Blood on the Leaves”
Easily Cole’s best album to date, Born Sinner is well-produced with plenty of Biblical references you could only understand on Rap Genius! The album includes the incredibly dope single “Power Trip” and the powerful “Chaining Day”. Definitely check out “Forbidden Fruit” with a hook by Kendrick Lamar, as well as the very popular “Let Nas Down”
With the amount of music being made in the world today, it’s difficult to listen to it all. Luckily, Rap Genius gets to experience a ton of new, great music!
Here’s part two of our “If You Don’t Know…” series showing some love to verified artists you should not be sleeping on!
The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) got a verified account on Rap Genius and broke down a lyric on Kanye’s “New Slaves”. Check it out here!
Also don’t forget to check out their verified account
Don’t forget to check out all the annotations on his new album Watching Movies With The Sound Off only on Rap Genius!
Verified artist Joey BADA$$ dropped a new track on June 12, the 1-year anniversary of the release of his first tape 1999. “95 Til Infinity” is now broken down by Joey Bad himself, check out the song with his annotations here
Don’t forget to peep his verified account!
Last year, Rap Genius partnered with the Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA and Teachers College’s Chris Emdin to create Science Genius, an urban science initiative in NYC public schools. See the project, in action this semester, as GZA attends Bronx Compass high school in NYC to work on rhymes about Darwin’s theory on natural selection (also on Rap Genius!)
Find out more about Science Genius here. And check out the finalists in PBS’s contest spin on Science Genius here.
The dope new single, “Money and The Power”, by RG Verified artist, Kid Ink, is out now and with verified break downs.
See what Ink had to say about his newest bars and check out all the lyrics to the new EP, Almost Home on RG!
Check it all out here and Make sure you buy Almost Home — available on iTunes now!
