Rap Genius co-founder resigns over insensitive comments on California mass shooter’s manifesto
May27
A co-founder of Rap Genius, the service that allows users to view, annotate and discuss the meaning behind song lyrics, news and other types of writing, has resigned after he annotated an alleged mass shooter’s manifesto with grossly insensitive comments. ValleyWag had reported on the annotations that Mahbod Moghadam made on the 141-page manifesto written by Elliot Rodger, who is alleged to have murdered six people in a seaside college town in California — including a guess that “his sister is smokin hot”. In a statement, Rap Genius co-founder and CEO Tom Lehman said that Moghadam “annotated the piece with annotations that not only…
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