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Its very scary to build your business on being ranked high on Google. When you build your house on sand...

• amandabertha 13y ago
  More like... when your entire business is built on google rankings maybe you should consider reading their rules. Closely. This is a case of Rap Genius brazenly breaking the rules and thinking they can get away with it because of their gilded connections (their spoiled frat boy persona seems to reflect the reality of their behaviour: thinking they're too rich and connected for the rules to apply). Acting like a clown, like Donald Trump, definitely gets you money and exposure. But personally I wouldn't take any amount of money if it meant I became a person making public rape jokes, making startup culture even more sexist, regressive, pathetic... not to mention racist. Their tongue-in-cheek appropriation of black english is mocking both the rap community as well as the poor black AND white communities that actually use that language for serious (and have no chance of going to elite schools let alone getting a half decent education). Anyway Rap Genius is a nice service (and I'm a fan of hip hop) but the behavior of the founders is disgusting. Shameful behavior does not suddenly become cool just because it can make you a hundred million dollars. Capitalists always sell away their values eventually. It's sick. Know what's cooler than a billion dollars? Being a decent human being.