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Genius MCP for AI. Get lyrics, artist data, and deep annotations instantly.

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Connect to your AI in seconds.

Genius MCP connects your agent to a massive lyrics database, letting you search songs by title or artist and instantly retrieve full lyrics, album tracklists, artist profiles, and deep community annotations.

Stop bouncing between sites; get all the music knowledge in one chat.

What your AI can do

Get album

Gets the name, artist, cover art, release date, and full track list for a specific album ID.

Get annotation

Fetches detailed explanations from community members about a specific lyric fragment.

Get artist

Returns the artist's name, profile image, description, and unique IQ score.

+ 4 more capabilities included
Find Songs by Keyword

You can search for songs using titles, keywords, or artist names.

Get Full Song Details

Retrieves a song's complete information, including lyrics in plain text and HTML format.

Analyze Artist Profiles

Pulls detailed artist bios alongside their Genius page URL and IQ score.

Review Album Tracklists

Gets an album's full name, cover art, release date, and every track included.

Get Annotation Context

Reads community explanations for specific lines of lyrics, detailing meaning and references.

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Genius: 7 Tools for Music Data Retrieval

These tools allow you to pull highly specific music metadata like track lists, detailed explanations, or full song lyrics when general chat isn't enough.

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Get Album

Gets the name, artist, cover art, release date, and full track list for a specific album ID.

Get Annotation

Fetches detailed explanations from community members about a specific lyric fragment.

Get Artist

Returns the artist's name, profile image, description, and unique IQ score.

Get Artist Songs

Retrieves a paginated list of song titles and pageview counts for an entire artist...

Get Song

Delivers all detailed info about one song, including lyrics in both plain text and...

Get Song Annotations

Gathers community explanations for specific lyric fragments from a known song ID.

Search Songs

Searches the database by title, lyrics, or artist name, returning preliminary results and IDs to narrow down your query.

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Claude AI

Claude AI

1

Open Claude Settings

Go to claude.ai, click your profile icon, then navigate to Customize → Connectors.

2

Add Custom Connector

Click the "+" button and select Add custom connector. Paste your Vinkius endpoint URL:

https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp

Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your token from cloud.vinkius.com. For OAuth-protected servers, expand Advanced settings to add credentials.

3

Start a conversation

Open a new chat. The Genius integration is available immediately — no restart needed.

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Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and more

The Model Context Protocol standardizes how applications expose capabilities to LLMs. Instead of operating in isolation, your AI gains direct access to external platforms, live data, and real-world actions through secure, standardized connections.

This connection provides 7 powerful capabilities that interface natively with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other compatible AI platforms. No middleware. No custom integration required.

The Old Way: Jumping Between Sites for Basic Song Info

Right now, finding out what a song means is a mess of tabs. You start on one site to get the lyrics, then you have to copy that text and paste it into another resource just to find annotations or explanations. Then you open a third tab to check who produced the track—it's tedious, slow, and easy to lose key context.

With this MCP connected via Vinkius, all those steps vanish. You talk to your agent once, ask for the song details, and it automatically gathers the lyrics, the artist profile, and even community annotations into one clean response.

Accessing Music Data with get_song

Before this MCP, getting comprehensive data meant a multi-step process: finding the song ID, then running separate queries for lyrics and producer info. You often missed metadata like the album name or release date.

Now you just ask your agent to get the song. It handles all the background calls—it delivers the full plain text lyrics *plus* the artist, album, producers, and exact release date in a single chunk of data.

What your AI can actually do with this

Need to know the meaning behind a lyric? Or maybe you just need to check what tracks an artist released on their last album? This MCP gives your agent direct access to the world's largest lyrics database, letting you pull structured music metadata through natural conversation. Instead of manually searching song titles and then jumping over to different sites for annotations or artist bios, you ask your agent, and it gets you everything.

You can search millions of songs by keywords, grab complete lyrical text, see who produced the track, and even read community-written explanations detailing wordplay or historical references in those lyrics. This connection makes complex research tasks—like analyzing a decade's worth of artist output—simple to manage within your workflow through Vinkius.

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Questions you might have

How do I find songs using search_songs? +

You tell your agent what you're looking for by title, artist, or keyword. The tool returns preliminary results and IDs that you then use to get detailed info with get_song.

What does get_annotation do? +

This tool fetches community-written explanations for specific lines of lyrics. You must provide the annotation ID from a previous search result to read these details.

Can I see all songs by an artist using get_artist_songs? +

Yes, calling get_artist_songs returns a paginated list of song titles and pageview counts for the entire catalog. You can use the page parameter to navigate through results.

What is required to run get_album? +

You need an existing album ID, which you typically get from running search_songs or getting full song details via get_song. This allows retrieval of the track list and art.

If I use `search_songs`, how do I get the necessary IDs for detailed lookups? +

The initial search results contain enough information to proceed. Each result from search_songs includes a unique song ID, which you must pass to tools like get_song or get_song_annotations to retrieve full details.

What specific data does the `get_artist` tool return? +

It returns more than just the name; you get the artist's IQ score, profile image URL, a brief description, and their Genius page link. This is useful for quickly building out basic artist bios.

Does `get_song_annotations` provide only short explanations or more detailed context? +

It provides rich detail. When you use get_song_annotations, you get the annotated lyric fragments along with full explanation text, author information, and vote counts for community-written insights.

When I call `get_song` using a song ID, what kind of metadata do I receive? +

You get comprehensive data points about the track. This includes the full title, artist, album details, release date, producer information, and—most importantly—the complete lyrics in both plain text and HTML formats.

How do I get a Genius access token? +

Register at genius.com/api-clients and create an API client. You'll get an access token immediately. It's free.

Can I get full lyrics for songs? +

Yes! The get_song endpoint returns full lyrics in plain text and HTML formats. Annotations provide explanations of specific lyric fragments.

What are annotations? +

Annotations are community-written explanations of specific lyric fragments. They explain references, wordplay, cultural context, biographical details and the meaning behind the lyrics. Each annotation has vote counts showing community approval.

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