Andreessen Horowitz invests $15 million in website Rap Genius
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Venture capitalist Ben Horowitz is famous for starting his blog posts with rap lyrics. Now, he will be putting his money into the mix. His firm, Andreessen Horowitz, announced Wednesday a $15 million investment in Rap Genius, a website using crowdsourcing to dig into and explain arcane details of rap lyrics. Think of Rap Genius as the Talmud, Horowitz said in a phone interview on Wednesday, referring to the Jewish text that interprets the Old Testament. As an example, Horowitz cited a Lil Wayne lyric, "real G’s move in silence like lasagna. . . .
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