dear rap genius : people died due to a mentally ill man who had deeply warped problems with women and a dangerous streak of misogyny .
the comments were first written about by valleywag , which published images of moghadam ’s annotations like the one above .
when i first met the cofounders in the fall of 2012 at their williamsburg penthouse , moghadam told me that rap genius planned to make money through
rap genius co - founder mahbod moghadam resigned from both the company and its board of directors , effective immediately , after leaving inappropriate annotations on the manifesto by elliot rodgers , the alleged santa barbara shooter .
it read in part : “ however , mahbod moghadam , one of my co - founders , annotated the piece with annotations that not only did n’t attempt to enhance anyone ’s understanding of the text , but went beyond that into gleeful insensitivity and misogyny .
before it was removed , one annotation said : " my guess : his sister is smokin hot " before the resignation , moghadam , lehman , and a third cofounder , ilan zechory , were all classmates at yale university .
in his explanations , moghadam applauded rodger 's writing and commented on the attractiveness of rodger 's sister .
rap genius allows anyone to annotate a snippet to text .
in a statement , rap genius co - founder and ceo tom lehman said moghadam had resigned as an employee and also from the board of directors .