Charting the Popularity of Tech Through Hip-Hop Lyrics

Charting the Popularity of Tech Through Hip-Hop Lyrics

Rap music is usually a pretty good marker of what’s trendy—or what’s going to be trendy in a few months. Maybe people were bragging about Sidekicks in the early aughts, but when did that drop off? RapGenius’s new RapStats feature shows you.

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Here’s a Translation of All that Gangsta Slang in the iTunes Terms of Service [Apple]

For the critically unhip who don’t know their way around even the simplest of hip-hop slang, RapGenius is something of a translator, cataloging the ins and outs of the genre’s jargon, and spoon-feeding it to squares like me. And what could be more packed with impenetrable slang than the “lyrics” to the iTunes Terms of Service agreement? More »