He finally stepped down from the company in May, after uploading the Isla Vista Manifesto and encircling it with commentary about shooter Elliot Rodger’s “beautifully written” prose and “smokin’ hot” sister. (“White devil sophistry” is how Das Racist described Genius in a 2012 song, its lyrics available on Genius.) Maybe you’ve seen the articles unfolding Genius co-founder Mahbod Moghadam’s bad behavior.
Or the would-be hip-hop authority ironically run by white Yale grads. If the site, created and overseen by Ilan Zechory and Tom Lehman, isn’t your go-to spot for lyrical illumination when the new Action Bronson album drops, maybe you know it as the upstart critical platform that lured Sasha Frere-Jones away from the New Yorker. But forgive me-already, I’m lost in the weeds, a cast of mind not exactly discouraged by Genius.
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