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Happy Twelfth Night! (“Twelfth Night” Is on the Site)
What is love? ‘Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter. What’s to come is still unsure. In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty; Youth’s a stuff will not...
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Rap Genius/Poetry Brain in the Classroom
Lincoln still blasts his EP at Rap Genius As this blog has demonstrated again and again in the past few months, the energy around Rap Genius’s recent launch of Poetry Brain is a powerful force. The...
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Adam Mansbach: Poetry Brain’s First Verified Novelist
Chapter 1 of Adam Mansbach’s “Rage is Back” now on Rap Genius! If you are one of those readers who remains confused about the relationship between Rap Genius and Poetry Brain, Adam Mansbach, our first...
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Happy Birthday, John Steinbeck!
On this day in 1902, American novelist John Steinbeck was born. Had his life not been cut tragically short in 1968, he would be 111 today. Steinbeck, the author of such classroom favorites as Of Mice...
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New Robert Greene Explanations on Sun Tzu!
A little while back we put up Sun Tzu’s The Art of War on Rap Genius. Not long after, we featured an excerpt from Mastery (Viking Adult, 2012), the new book by power and strategy expert Robert Greene....
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Roger Ebert: Au Revoir and Much Love
“I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do…We...
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A Novel Built on Hip-Hop: T. M. Wolf’s “Sound”
Today we proudly present a sample from T. M. Wolf’s Sound, an experimental novel modeled on hip-hop beats. Wolf has contributed verified Rap Genius annotations to Chapter 3 of the book, along with an...
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Jay-Z’s “Open Letter” and the White House Response
With all the crazy publicity surrounding Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s recent visit to Cuba, three Republican members of Congress cried out, demanding proof from the White House of the legitimacy of the trip....
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Happy Mother’s Day!
Well, it’s that time of year again! Sure, you could just invest in the same old same old—bouquet of assorted flowers, kitschy card—or you could bring your beloved mother a delicious brunch in bed,...
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All of Joyce’s “Ulysses” Is Now on Rap Genius
Yes I said yes. The most groundbreaking novel of all time is now on Rap Genius in its entirety. Help us decode James Joyce’s Modernist masterpiece, Ulysses. Sure, there are a number of thorough...
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