这家名为Rap Genius的初创公司目前的任务可能是“诠释世界”，但该网站本身在本土仍处于最佳状态：提供一些启发性的音乐琐事片段。里克·鲁宾就是一个很好的例子：三天前，这位超级**人开始为自己创作或喜欢的歌曲和专辑做注释，结果将幕后见解和从《杀戮者》到《坎耶·韦斯特》等最受欢迎曲目和艺术家的直截了当的推荐完美地结合在一起。

想象一下如果其他鲁宾那样的专家也加入进来

我们已经在下面突出了他最好的注释的选择，但是您可以查看他在Genius上验证的个人资料，以了解更多信息。当然，这些笔记本身很有趣，但是他们也提出天才如何获得更广泛的相关性：如果鲁宾的能力专家能够被吸引对他们的特定兴趣领域发表评论，那么普通的网络用户可能有一个很好的理由定期访问这个网站，而不是仅仅忘记第二句“99个问题”。天才最近雇用了纽约人的音乐评论家建议他们也知道这一点。

Jay Z的《99个问题》第一节

Jay wrote the first verse in about twenty minutes, sitting in the back of the control room. He would just be kind of humming, and we’d keep looping the track, and maybe after thirty minutes he jumped up and was like "We got it!" And he did it ten times, and every time he did it, it was different. Most of the words were the same, but the phrasing was different. He’d written and memorized the words and then was playing with different ways of doing it. It was incredible.

在《屠夫之血》中的吉他独奏：

I really love the solos on that record because they have nothing to do with music. It’s just about speed. How fast can a guitar, or how fast can anything play? We’ll use this guitar, because we have these, but it has nothing to do with guitar playing or music. And also the fact that they had two lead guitar players who would trade off these guitar solos, neither of which made sense. Like: "This thing doesn’t make sense, and now I’m going to out not-make-sense you. You think you can do that? I’ll do this." It’s so insane. There’s one where I think its like five back and forth of just insanity. Unbelievable.

关于与亚当·霍洛维茨一起写Beastie男孩的“女孩”：

On the train back, we wrote "Girls." It was rooted in an Isley Brothers song, "Shout." It was written with that music in mind and then we sort of did our version of what that would have been. We just wrote really stupid, offensive words.

关于是什么吸引了他到一个系统的下降（鲁宾已经产生了他们所有的五张专辑）：

You’ve got this unbelievable band that don’t sound like anyone else, ever. They’re four Armenian guys. I went to see them live, and every label had passed on them. They were at the Viper Room, it was packed. It was the funniest show. I couldn’t stop laughing. It was intense. The problem with hard music is that it almost all sounds the same. Heavy metal has very strict guidelines. The beauty of System of a Down is that it’s so weird and so groovy but hard as ****. And the singer is great.

在Yeezus上，Kanye West的第一张专辑“对它的发行方式感到满意”：

I remember a few days after Yeezus came out, Kanye sent me a message, so excited, like, "I just realized there’s no snare drum on Yeezus until the sixth song! How cool is that?"

在职业生涯即将结束之际，在鲁宾的美国唱片公司（American Recordings）旗下与约翰尼·卡什（Johnny Cash）录制《受伤》（Hurt）时：

For all the records we made together, he would play me songs and I would play him songs until we got to the point where we both liked the songs... "Rusty Cage" was mine, "Hurt" was mine. He wouldn’t have heard those. Something like an old Jimmie Rodgers song, chances are he brought it.

What I came to realize about that whole Johnny Cash experience was that he was a great storyteller. The song didn’t matter — all that mattered were the words. All that mattered was if the character of Johnny Cash — the mythical Johnny Cash, the man in black — would say those words. If that’s what you would want to hear him talking about, then that would be a good song to do. So it was never about like melody, it was just about if the lyrics were right.