this has been removed nowadays but this was the actual rapgenius explanation while this song was new and popular:

"(ball so hard) that s*** cray" - Watch The Throne

"The origin of the term “Cray” from the “Paris” single off Jay-Z and Kanye West’ “Watch the Throne” album is actually not a shortened form of the word “crazy”, nor is it “cray”, it’s actually “Kray”. It’s in reference to the schizophrenic twins Ronald and Reginald Kray… The Kray twins who were the crime lords in London in the 50's and 60's… The police failed to locate them on numerous occasions, which is where the line “ball so hard, muthafuckas wanna find me, that s*** Kray. That s*** Kray. That s*** Kray”."

When the co-founder was on This is America

I remember how betrayed (not really but ehh) I felt the first time i realized they do “just lyrics” as often as if not more than annotations. Then they became the top google for lyrics so it was just whatever.

Need a new annotation lyric site cuz they not cutting it anymore

Peak “you have to have a certain intellect to understand” era

I truly think it’s a chicken or the egg situation on top of it being a meme within a meme. J Cole’s career arc is an interesting case study

They're still bad, just look at the kendrick family tie verse

rapgenius.com is white devil sophistry

You say the right name,
And they display the wrong meaning like it's Rap Genius
Jesus, niggas that sheepish believe it

I remember the people who worked on Yonkers going CRAZY

Let’s annotate American Tterrorist 😄

lmaoooo nah i remember they said it was because “i” in math is the imaginary number

Someone post the Mac one where Mac actually replied

GKMC is annotated like The Odyssey over there on that site

Anyone can edit it lol

White devil sophistry

precisely why I made this thread I know there’s more out there

I figured that but there has (had?) to be some kinda merit system to determine which annotation gets displayed first right? Meaning these crazy ones were winning out more often than not

If you been editing a long time you can pick peoples edits to add. Its a weird system.

i thought it was just first come first serve cuz it only shows one annotation unless there’s also a verified one

searching the lyrics to Parade - Tyler introduced me to rapgenius and I swear I thought Tyler was the most calculated genius rapper out. Until he finally cleared it up that most of the explanations were a reach.

True but their annotations for "Mural" should be a course in college