If you enjoy Hip-Hop or any other lyrically dense music, Genius is absolutely the best place to dig deeper and enjoy it. But they spent a ton of time and effort to branch out to other genres, and to be honest, there is almost nothing gained there.
Kind of a bummer that they raised at such a high valuation and repeatedly set their sights on scaling to areas with minimal chance of success.
Also always thought about how the need for annotations is probably a lot lower in other genres / types of text content. I rarely need an abridged Wikipedia-level explanation of who Donald Trump is, but these kinds of clues tend to be key in interpreting the wordplay of hip hop.
They're frankly turning into a hip hop publication at this point, much to my dismay. I don't find their content very attractive beyond their core competency of verified artists.
I never found most hip-hop lyrics being so deep that hey need some annotations for explanation.
Then it felt like very far fetched to me that people who considered annotating hip-hop lyrics now want to "annotate the world".
And now they can't live up to their promises, which perfectly fits in my, probably wrong, model of hip-hop culture in general.
For example I really like grime but I haven't lived in England for over a decade so I have no clue what a lot of their references mean when I first hear them because I never hear them in my day to day. Genius helps with that and a lot of other cases.
Jiggy-jabberjaw vitamin idol and primal rages
When bible page verse tidal waves begun (Water won)
I wrote the book that shook America to splinters
In a winter wasteland icicle-bound barren township
Call Baron Münchhausen and proud gimps to clinch this chemical war pig
Delinquent sinking like a paper tugboat well beneath your holidays
Beached on a red tide infested shore corroding eastern seaboard beauty
I'm a jigsaw slab, but all the pig saw was dirt bag