The Genius went from one community to explain lyrics of rap music to a whole web annotation tool. Now, renewed its website and its app for iOS; and launched an app for Android.

With this new redesign, the yellow color became prevalent throughout the Genius. Music pages have been improved and there’s a new featured section for popular bands of various genres and also the most popular non-music content.

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Despite the growth over the past seven years, the Genius was too caught up in what he was: a tutor of rap lyrics. The truth is that 2009 will already there. Today, Rap Genius is only Genius, and features not only rap, like other musical styles, from rock to country, not to mention the pop and R & B. But not only does the music if Genius: above all, we are talking of an annotation platform and the idea is not just to write down music, such as around the web. Without losing the musical roots, this redesign back some maturity to the Genius brand.

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The iOS version of its app has 38 million users, more 11% from July. The launch of an app for Android, which will initially only allow users to rate the notes, you can open the new Genius many millions of users. Both apps let you play music and read the lyrics, navigate through the tracks and most popular posts of Genius, learn more about the sounds with notes of artists / producers checked and also enrich the experience with videos and GIFs.