• What’s Empath’s Emporium?

The key to writing good annotations is to strengthen our language. Empath’s Emporium is a weekly series highlighting three superbly written annotations from the past week. The goal is for us all to discuss how we can improve the quality of our writing. Plus, praise and upvotes!

Check out last week’s installment here.

• How do you decide which annotations to feature?

These annotations are already tightly written, meaning they need to be edited a maximum of 5% attribution. They should contain no unnecessary padding and minimal errors. These are the kinds of annotations we should be shooting for!

For more detailed info on the standards I’m going by, check out the Refining Language and Contextualizing Tate Talks.

• How can I get featured?

Have you seen some amazing tates? Did you write one of your own? Nominate them by sending me a message with the link!

Remember: Only annotations made between this installment and the next qualify. To avoid redundancy, make sure the tates you send haven’t already been featured in threads like This Week On Genius.

@BrianErwin continues crushing the game. Here’s a solo tate he did on “Biking” that’s just the right amount of info—not too much and not too little.

https://genius.com/11648730

Whenever @A1ex comes on to tate, he always leaves behind some dope knowledge. Here’s a recent example.

https://genius.com/11648168

With this one, @Pineapple13 uses historical context in a nuanced way to point out irony in the lyrics.

https://genius.com/11649119

Do you agree with these examples?
If so, what makes them great? If not, what could be improved?
Have you seen any other fantastically written annotations?

@genius-editorial-board

dope stuff!!

still can’t remember if i’ve ever made it to @Empath’s emporium. gonna have to kill it on kenny!

Great work everyone and another awesome installment of Empath’s Emporium!

(Third time lucky?)

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@Michael Same, maybe I’ll be able to dish out a couple good ‘tates on “Black Spiderman” tomorrow and get featured here next week, we’ll see xD

good luck @Michael 😈

@LukeHanna it’s so good lol. I need to start including it in the OP