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Formed in December of 2010, Death Grips is an experimental hip hop group that consists of rapper Stefan Burnett (aka MC Ride), drummer Zach Hill (of the band Hella) and producer Andy Morin.Their music is a unique and hyper-aggressive blend of noise, samples, noise, Hill's insane drumming, Ride's loud vocals, chaotic production, noise, and subverting and deconstructing almost every hip hop trope under the sun. (But to make for less of a mouthful, it's been summarized as "industrial hip hop" — although that doesn't even cover everything they do.)They're also known for the sheer nightmarish ferocity of their live shows and the massive following they've gained on the Internet, especially on 4chan's /mu/ board (as well as the Fountain of Memes that has grown as a result).They're (in)famous for using this extensive following to confound or deliberately mislead fans' expectations, with a famous example being when they announced that they were disbanding in 2014... only to continue making music several months later, to no one's surprise.Discography: Death Grips (EP) (2011) Exmilitary (mixtape) (2011) The Money Store (2012) NO LOVE DEEP WEB (2012) Government Plates (2013) Fashion Week (2015) The Powers That B (double album) (2015) Niggas on the Moon (disc 1) (2014) Jenny Death (disc 2) (2015) Interview 2016 (EP) (2016) Bottomless Pit (2016) Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix) (EP) (2017) Year of the Snitch (2018) Gmail and the Restraining Orders (EP) (2019) | |
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Madness Mantra | |
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Madness Mantra: The very beginning of "Steroids". "World of Dogs" also has MC Ride repeating "It's all suicide" over and over in a Creepy Monotone. All of MC Ride's "lyrics" in Gmail and the Restraining Orders consist of nothing more than several repeated sentences. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: NO LOVE DEEP WEB (somehow) manages to be this despite the band already having some of the darkest output of any rap group, with both the lyrics and musical production being bleaker to commemorate the album's focus on atmosphere as opposed to The Money Store, which relied mainly on catchy hooks. The Powers That B manages to be even darker than that. | |
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The Anti-Nihilist | |
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The Anti-Nihilist: "On GP" has MC Ride deciding against suicide after a lengthy rant. The whole band seems to be this, based on interviews. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: The upload of "Black Paint" on the official Death Grips YouTube channel features an image of someone dressed as the Grim Reaper holding a can of black paint. Death grips black paint. | |
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The Quiet One | |
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Stefan Burnett on the other hand is quite the opposite. | |
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Face on the Cover | |
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Face on the Cover: Sua Yoo (the person who made the Money Store artwork) on the cover of Fashion Week. Matthew Hoffman on the cover of Interview 2016. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: Their general view of the world, most clearly shown in "Artificial Death in the West." | |
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Anti-Police Song | |
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Anti-Police Song: "Klink", "Black Quarterback" | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: While they still fall under the umbrella of industrial hip-hop, each of their albums is this compared to the previous one. Exmilitary was a lot more hook- and beat-driven than their debut EP. The Money Store was considerably more electronic and less sample-based than Exmilitary. NO LOVE DEEP WEB eschews catchy hooks in general in exchange for a deeper focus on atmosphere. Government Plates took this to a new level, with a much larger emphasis on experimental electronic production and much less rapping from MC Ride. And then Ride returned in a big way for Niggas on the Moon, which in general features more frenetic production, cleaner, quieter, yet far more absurd verses from Ride, and samples from Björk on every track. Let's not forget Fashion Week, which takes the roots of Government Plates and plays with them at will, having special amounts of freedom since it's a wholly instrumental album. Bottomless Pit hearkens back to the accessibility and catchiness of Money Store combined with the raw aggression of Exmilitary which, at its most intense, begins crossing into grounds of heavy metal ("Giving Bad People Good Ideas", "Ring a Bell", "Bottomless Pit"). Year of the Snitch leaned even harder on their hip-hop roots (complete with scratches), but expanded their pallet even further, going into uncharted territory for the group. | |
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Title Track | |
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Title Track: Their self-titled debut EP, No Love Deep Web, Government Plates, The Powers That B, and Bottomless Pit all have one. Well, NLDW is a bit unique, in the sense that there are two tracks named "No Love" and "Deep Web." | |
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Take That, Us | |
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Take That Us: Once described themselves as "V E R Y SHALLOW LISTENING" circa Bottomless Pit - this may be a Take That! to critics who deem them as inferior to B L A C K I E, dalek, and other experimental hip-hop groups in terms of content. When tweeting out a phone number for fans to access music from Bottomless Pit before it came out, the band instructed to "press 1 for trash", with "trash" referring to their music (specifically, the song "Trash"). | |
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Bring My Brown Pants | |
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Bring My Brown Pants: MC Ride causes someone to do this in "Lil Boy". | |
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The video kicks off with footage of first responders trying to communicate with Galen Pehrson (who animated the True Vulture video) after he suffered a seizure. With a banana randomly floating across the screen. | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Ax-Crazy: MC Ride in most songs. Probably best exemplified in the music video for "You Might Think..." in which he completely loses it in front of the camera. | |
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Miniscule Rocking | |
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Miniscule Rocking: "5D" and "Cut Throat", both off of Exmilitary, are around a minute in length. | |
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Stoic Spectacles | |
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Stoic Spectacles: Andy. | |
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Number of the Beast | |
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Number of the Beast: Occurs at the beginning and ending of "Takyon". The song's opening line on is "triple six, five, forked tongue", and it ends with a sample saying "six million ways to die" that is intentionally stuttered to repeat the "six" three times. | |
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Scary Black Man | |
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Scary Black Man: MC Ride, and how. Stefan Burnett on the other hand is quite the opposite. | |
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Ascended Meme | |
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Ascended Meme: The phrase "JENNY DEATH WHEN" became something of a meme, being used frequently as a burning question asked by Death Grips fans during the waiting period in between halves of Powers That B. On the album Fashion Week, all of the tracks' letters spell that phrase. "Zach here, thanks man" finally appeared on the official Death Grips twitter on April Fools' Day 2015. The first track off Year of the Snitch is called "Death Grips Is Online", a phrase infamously retweeted en masse by the band's Twitter when tweeted out by fans. | |
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Uncommon Time | |
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Uncommon Time: | |
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Face Death with Dignity | |
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Face Death with Dignity: "Come Up and Get Me" is an extremely dark variation. | |
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Take That, Critics! | |
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Take That, Critics!: "Eh" seems to be directed towards haters and critics of the band, to which the band merely responds by saying "eh". "Disappointed" seems to be venting about the band constantly being judged by others. | |
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Take That, Audience! | |
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Take That, Audience!: "BB Poison" directly talks about the strange and twisted relationship the band has with their fans, considering fan freakouts and meme explosions have become an integral part of the band's culture. | |
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Stylistic Suck | |
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Stylistic Suck: Their songs are intentionally brickwalled and compressed to a brutal degree, and their videos are about as close to a live-action Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff as you can get. Take the videos for "Guillotine," "The Fever (Aye Aye)," and "Takyon," for example. This applies to the visuals for Government Plates. A music video was made for each song, and most of them include rotating 3D art looping over and over on a black background. "Eh", fitting for a song about indifference, is deliberately phoned-in—it even has the only video not directed (or co-directed) by the group. | |
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Title Scream | |
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Title Scream: The chorus of "Takyon". Good grief. "Spread Eagle Cross the Block" starts with Ride shouting the song title three times. The same sound clip is reused later in the song. The beginning portion of "I Break Mirrors With My Face in the United States" features Ride doing nothing but repeatedly shouting the song title. At least half of it: "NO LOVE!" "Black Paint" has MC Ride repeating the titular phrase after almost every line. "Hahaha" and "Shitshow" off of ''Year of the Snitch' qualify. | |
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Song Style Shift | |
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Song Style Shift: "Steroids", being 22 minutes long, does this about a half dozen times. Gmail and the Restraining Orders follows the same principle. | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
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Tranquil Fury: Ride's vocal delivery in "Linda's in Custody" comes across as this. | |
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Trope Codifier | |
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Trope Codifier: For industrial rap. While groups like The Disposible Heroes of Hiphoprisy had been combining industrial elements with rap and hip-hop since as far back as the late 1980s, Death Grips' sound has come to define the style since their inception. | |
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Pretty in Mink | |
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Pretty in Mink: After the "short film" in the "Come Up and Get Me" video, we see Ride rapping the song in a fur coat. Sua Yoo appears this way on the cover of Fashion Week. | |
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Metaphorgotten | |
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Metaphorgotten: One would have to read interviews from around the time to understand why "The Horn Section" was not a Non-Indicative Name for an instrumental featuring an extended drum solo. | |
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Re-release the Song | |
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Re-release the Song: "Takyon", "Known For It", and "I Want It I Need It (Death Heated)"note although on the EP, it was called "Where's It At (Death Heated)" on the debut EP would later become part of the Exmilitary track list. | |
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Scenery Gorn | |
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Scenery Gorn: The video to "Inanimate Sensation" is shown through the TV display of a basketball court—which has just fallen off the ceiling and gone straight through the floor. A lesser case in "The Powers That B," which consists of sped-up footage of Stefan and Zach cleaning up a torn-open beanbag chair. | |
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Genre Roulette | |
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Genre Roulette: Any given song on Bottomless Pit leans either towards the band's normal electronica-tinged industrial rap or more aggressive sounds more reminiscent of heavy metal. Taken to a new extreme on Year of the Snitch, which throws a new curveball with every track. | |
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Motive Rant | |
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Motive Rant: "Beware" can be considered one, as Ride lays bare his incredibly individualistic and nihilistic philosophy in it. | |
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Male Frontal Nudity | |
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Male Frontal Nudity: No Love Deep Web's cover is literally just Zach Hill's penis. | |
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All Drummers Are Animals | |
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All Drummers Are Animals: Zach Hill's playing has been known to break lug casings and bend the top hoop of his drums. He's fractured his own hand in a rehearsal once. It's not uncommon for his kit to be broken and splattered with his own blood by the end of some performances. Rehearsal footage used in the video for "No Love" shows him drumming full-force with his bare hands and headbutting his crash cymbal. | |
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Makes Just as Much Sense in Context | |
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In the "Hustle Bones" video, we see an open bottle of milk tossed into a dryer. When the dryer starts working, the bottle and milk go flying every which way, including the camera lens. | |
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Sampling | |
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Sampling: Extensively. Often overlaps with Everything Is an Instrument (see above). The following examples are just some of the examples in their music. Their debut EP's first track primarily samples Nancy Sinatra's "Lightning's Girl". Exmilitary: The album starts with the famous "I roll the nickels" clip by Charles Manson. "Klink" primarily samples Black Flag's "Rise Above". "I Want It I Need It" primarily samples Pink Floyd's "Interstellar Overdrive". "Lord of the Game" features the "I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE!" clip from Arthur Brown's "Fire". "Spread Eagle Cross the Block" primarily samples Link Wray's "Rumble". The band has actually sampled themselves on multiple albums. This is most prevalent in Year of the Snitch, which mostly samples Exmilitary. | |
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Bookends | |
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Bookends: In "Beware," the song starts out with the chorus, moves onto the "And I know soon come my time" verse, and proceeds into three minutes of other verses, before repeating the same "And I know soon come my time" verse and ending with the chorus. If The Powers That B really was the band's final album (as was thought to be the case upon release), the first and last songs of their discography would've been called "Death Grips"note the first song on their debut self-titled EP and "Death Grips 2.0". | |
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Minimalism | |
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Minimalism: No Love Deep Web uses this extensively to an unsettling effect. "Hunger Games" is probably the most stripped-down song on the album. | |
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Country Matters | |
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Country Matters: "Centuries of Damn" features the line "Nailed to crucifix / Lilith shoved up her cunt". "Linda's in Custody" has the refrain "Eat it like the devil's cunt". | |
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Lucky Charms Title | |
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Lucky Charms Title: No Love Deep Web is sometimes stylized as NØ LØV∑ D∑∑P W∏B. | |
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Three Chords and the Truth | |
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Three Chords and the Truth: NO LOVE DEEP WEB is kind of like their version of this. The majority of the sounds are produced from basic synthesizers and 808 drums, and there are comparatively few instances of what can be identified as samples. Hill has, for the most part, traded his drumkit in for some electronic drumpads. Government Plates can be argued to be even more stripped down. | |
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Fainting Seer | |
Death Grips (Music) / int_5cc04812 | comment |
Fainting Seer: Referenced in "Billy Not Really". | |
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Through the Eyes of Madness | |
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Through the Eyes of Madness: Applies to the band's discography as a whole, but really gets explored on Exmilitary. "No Love" is apparently about a psychotic breakdown and beatdown, while "Come Up And Get Me" has Ride trapped at the top of an abandoned building hallucinating that people are coming to kill him. | |
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Religion Rant Song | |
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Religion Rant Song: "Beware" briefly becomes one with this lyric: | |
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Audience Participation Song | |
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Audience Participation Song: "Guillotine" really seems to be a fan favorite. Everyone always shouts the "triple six, five, forked tongue" line at the start of "Takyon". Audiences have also been known to shout the intro to "No Love" alongside Ride. "Death Grips Is Online" is one of the few songs where Ride will take his mic away from his mouth and into the air for the audience to shout out the eponymous line. | |
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Death Glare | |
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Death Glare: Prominently featured in Exmilitary's cover art. | |
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Non-Indicative Name | |
Death Grips (Music) / int_6509bb9f | comment |
Nonindicative Name: "Outro" is the second-to-last song on Year of the Snitch. | |
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Drone of Dread | |
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Drone of Dread: Frequently used in the instrumentals, notably in "Guillotine" and much of NO LOVE DEEP WEB. "Flies" ends with one that sounds like an air raid siren. | |
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Interface Screw | |
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Interface Screw: Year of the Snitch drops several hints that it deliberately presented its tracks in the wrong order, such as Siamese Twin Songs not playing right after the other, and a song titled "Outro" as its penultimate track. | |
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Creepy Circus Music | |
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Creepy Circus Music: Provides a backing beat throughout "Double Helix". | |
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Evil Laugh | |
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Evil Laugh: Courtesy of Björk in "Up My Sleeves". | |
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Changed for the Video | |
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Changed for the Video: In the video for "No Love", the song is occasionally interrupted by a harsh, distorted noise and "1000%! I USED TO GIVE A FUCK!" pops up on the screen, in keeping with the "on the [X]th day I gave a fuck / did not give a fuck" scrolling across the bottom of the screen. This interruption doesn't appear in the actual song. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: "Beware", "I Want It I Need It (Death Heated)", "No Love", "Artificial Death in the West", "Whatever I Want (Fuck Who's Watching)", "Up My Sleeves", "Inanimate Sensation", "Beyond Alive", "The Powers That B", and "On GP" are all over 5 minutes, which counts by the band's standards. "Steroids (Crouching Tiger Hidden Gabber Megamix)" is 22 minutes long. Gmail and the Restraining Orders eclipses them all, at nearly a half-hour worth of music. | |
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Singer Namedrop | |
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Singer Namedrop: They reference "Death Grips" in a few different songs, but the most poignant example has to be in "On GP". | |
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Out-of-Genre Experience | |
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Out-of-Genre Experience: Some of the Powers That B tracks ("On GP" comes to mind) go from the band's usual experimental rap style and goes into full-on rap rock. It's essentially something you'd find on Exmilitary, but on steroids and crack. Year of the Snitch is experimental even by their standards, having an odd amount of influence from classic rock, jazz, and even shoegaze. | |
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N-Word Privileges | |
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N-Word Privileges: Actually averted in most of the band's discography. The word only shows up in the title of Niggas on the Moon, and even then isn't used in the actual lyrics of the album. | |
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"I Am" Song | |
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"I Am" Song: "Beware" may be the most brutal, nihilistic example of this trope to ever exist, and is by extension a perfect summary of the band's ethos. | |
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New Media Are Evil | |
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New Media Are Evil: "Culture Shock" off of Exmilitary explicitly decries technology's influence, using the anti-tech argument that no one needs that much information and that phones and other newfangled gadgets are stripping people of their free will, to be replaced by mass media. | |
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Murder Ballad | |
Death Grips (Music) / int_7aea8bae | comment |
Murder Ballad: "Takyon", which appears to be about a gunfight. "Guillotine" mixes Boastful Rap and this. | |
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Siamese Twin Songs | |
Death Grips (Music) / int_7d276626 | comment |
Siamese Twin Songs: "Culture Shock" and "5D" off of Exmilitary. Year of the Snitch features several cases. Most notably, "Dilemma" and "The Fear" are presented as such, but the tracklisting places one song between them. This suggests to some that the album is meant to be played in a different order than initially presented. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
Death Grips (Music) / int_7febc23b | comment |
Establishing Character Moment: "Full Moon (Death Classic)" and "Beware" are arguably the most concrete summaries of the Death Grips ethos that they've ever put out. | |
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Breather Episode | |
Death Grips (Music) / int_80a247a9 | comment |
Breather Episode: "Eh" and "80808" are two more chilled out tracks on the manic Bottomless Pit. "Streaky" off of Year of the Snitch also qualifies. Their instrumental albums, Fashion Week and Interview 2016, are this for their discography in general. | |
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Nausea Fuel | |
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And to top it all off, we come back to Zach wiping himself four times (with the same piece of toilet paper, no less) to reveal purple, green, blue, and black liquids on the paper, with footage of Zach placing his hand a weird crystal planted on top of the actual crystal in shot, presumbably for weirdness' sake. | |
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Motor Mouth | |
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Motor Mouth: Ride does this on both verses on "Shitshow". | |
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Rouge Angles of Satin | |
Death Grips (Music) / int_83ea0763 | comment |
Rouge Angles of Satin: Their current Twitter handle is bbpoltergiest, with "poltergeist" deliberately misspelled. | |
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Humanoid Abomination | |
Death Grips (Music) / int_851dda8f | comment |
Humanoid Abomination: MC Ride himself in a couple songs, like "You Might Think..." and "The Powers That B." | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Andy Morin was missing from October 2012 until SXSW 2013, and it has yet to be addressed or explained. | |
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Badass Boast | |
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Badass Boast: "I Break Mirrors With My Face in the United States". "Turned Off" gives us this gem: The famous hook to "Beware" also qualifies. Andrew Adamson gives one on the band's behalf in "Dilemma". Even Zach gets one in, on "Little Richard" | |
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Eldritch Abomination | |
Death Grips (Music) / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: One interpretation of The Powers That B. | |
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Rap Rock | |
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Rap Rock: Some of their songs that incorporate samples of old rock songs ("Klink" comes to mind) could be classified as this. For about half of Jenny Death, the band is joined by a live organist and guitarist. "On GP" takes this even further, featuring Andy Morin on bass guitar. | |
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Spoken Word in Music | |
Death Grips (Music) / int_8c00118f | comment |
Spoken Word in Music: The iconic sampling of a Charles Manson speech at the start of Exmilitary. "Dilemma" has one from Andrew Adamson. | |
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Powers That Be | |
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Powers That Be: They have a double album called The Powers That B. | |
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Demonic Possession | |
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Demonic Possession: The lyrics to "You Might Think..." depict Ride dying and possessing someone else through his spirit. | |
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Arc Number | |
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Arc Number: Three. The band is composed of three members. I've Always Been Good at True Love (the album by the ILY's) has 9 (or 3 squared) tracks. Thirteen. Exmilitary, The Money Store, No Love Deep Web, Bottomless Pit, and Year of the Snitch all have 13 tracks. Government Plates was released 13 months, 13 days, and 13 hours after NO LOVE DEEP WEB. The starting sample on the song "Fuck That" is 13 seconds long. No Love Deep Web and The Money Store have 13 letters in them. The video for "No Love" was released on February 13. | |
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Accidental Pun | |
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Conversely, "Giving Bad People Good Ideas" was filmed on (literally) a shoestring budget and has a shoe being dismantled, and even lip syncing some parts of the song. | |
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Boastful Rap | |
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"Guillotine" mixes Boastful Rap and this. | |
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Vulgar Humor | |
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Vulgar Humor: While most perceive the album cover of NO LOVE DEEP WEB as this, the alternate cover goes a step further by showing socks with "SUCK MY DICK" embroidered on. | |
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Free Handed Performer | |
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Free Handed Performer: MC Ride only raps while Zach is on drums and Flatlander is on keyboards. | |
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Lyrical Cold Open | |
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Lyrical Cold Open: "Spread Eagle Cross the Block", "Hunger Games", "Whatever I Want (Fuck Who's Watching)", "Giving Bad People Good Ideas". | |
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Singing Voice Dissonance | |
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Singing Voice Dissonance: A rare rap example — if you heard Stefan speak, you'd never believe he was MC Ride. | |
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Blast Out | |
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Blast Out: "Takyon" depicts a frantic, free-for-all gunfight. | |
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Careful with That Axe | |
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Careful with That Axe: MC Ride's modus operandi; choice examples include "Voila" (which includes screams that sound like he's being disemboweled), "Spread Eagle Cross The Block" ("SHIT IS MINE/IT'S ALL MINE/ALL THE TIME!"), and "Full Moon (Death Classic)" (in which he shouts his raps for the entire song). There's also the agonized female scream in "You Might Think". Year of the Snitch gives us two of Ride's finest screams: "DON'T JUMP" in "The Fear" and "WHY ME" in "Disappointed." | |
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Camera Abuse | |
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Camera Abuse: In the "Hustle Bones" video, we see an open bottle of milk tossed into a dryer. When the dryer starts working, the bottle and milk go flying every which way, including the camera lens. Let's not forget Ride viciously humping the camera in "Double Helix." The video for "I Break Mirrors With My Face In The United States" consists of rehearsal footage in which the camera is strapped to the performers' wrists. | |
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Digital Piracy Is Okay | |
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Digital Piracy Is Okay: No Love Deep Web was leaked by the band themselves in response to Epic refusing to release the album in 2012; the album racked up over 30 million BitTorrent downloads, making it the most legally torrented album of the year. While not exactly piracy, the list of works self-released for free reads far longer than their list of conventionally released works: the Death Grips EP, Exmilitary (and its accompanying stem collection Black Google), Government Plates, Niggas on the Moon, Fashion Week, Interview 2016, Steroids, and the first two albums from side project The i.l.y's, I've Always Been Good at True Love and Scum With Boundaries. Both the instrumentals and an unmastered version of The Money Store have been put out there, as well as the instrumental/acapella stems for Bottomless Pit and instrumentals for Year of the Snitch. The band also uploads all their music to YouTube and SoundCloud on the day of release. Jenny Death, in fact, was released on YouTube nearly two weeks before its official release in response to it being leaked. | |
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Homage | |
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Homage: The infamous cover of No Love Deep Web is both this and a Shout-Out to a Black Flag poster featuring a penis on it, right down to the angle of the . . . shaft. | |
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Sensory Abuse | |
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"Full Moon (Death Classic)" switches between Ride ferociously rapping as the footage flickers to no end and grotesquely candid footage of one bird preying on another. | |
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Loudness War | |
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Loudness War: Done on purpose, though not in a negative fashion. Exmilitary brings it to the point of Sensory Abuse. Fortunately though, an unmastered version of The Money Store exists on the web and isn't hard to come by, and it avoids the brickwalling of the released versions. All the stems of Exmilitary also exist on the web, so it shouldn't be hard for anyone with the right programs to make their own master that isn't so abrasively loud. | |
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Odd Friendship | |
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Odd Friendship: With Robert Pattinson. He's been photographed hanging out with Ride on several occasions, is apparently a huge fan of the band, and is apparently behind the electric guitar on "Birds". | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
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Idiosyncratic Song Naming: The tracks on Fashion Week all share a naming theme: the word "Runway", and then a letter. As the track listing shows, all of the letters spell "JENNY DEATH WHEN". | |
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Xtreme Kool Letterz | |
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Xtreme Kool Letterz: Not too extreme, but still fits here; "Takyon" is most likely derived from a tachyon, a hypothetical particle that travels faster than light. | |
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Distinct Double Album | |
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Distinct Double Album: The Powers That B, which consists of two halves: Niggas on the Moon and Jenny Death. The first disc is extremely abstract and experimental, while the second has heavy influences of Rap Rock. | |
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Leave the Camera Running | |
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Leave the Camera Running: The 9-minute film at the start of the "Come Up And Get Me" video consists of numerous notably long takes of next to nothing happening. The video for "On GP" has the band sitting extremely still in a room while the song is blasted over the speakers. There's also the video "June 22", which is about 7 minutes of weirdly distorted footage of a hooded figure rolling a toy truck around. | |
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Spoof Aesop | |
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Spoof Aesop: "I Want It I Need It (Death Heated)" has a very true statement. | |
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Squick | |
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Once the ACTUAL video starts, we aren't just treated to a couple of legs kicking frantically out from a bush, but Zach wiping his ass and a Gross-Up Close-Up of some random lady peeing on the ground. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: In "Hacker": Year of the Snitch repeatedly points its barbs at Linda Kasabian, a Manson Family escapee and a key witness against him. This extends to its title and its release date—it came out right after her 69th birthday. That fact is alluded to in "Hahaha," itself titled in reference to a Charles Manson interview. | |
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Executive Meddling | |
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Epic Records giving you some Executive Meddling on your new album release? Just go and release the album for free immediately. Having an erect penis on the cover wouldn't hurt, either. | |
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Pretender Diss | |
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Pretender Diss: "The Powers That B" ends with a particularly scathing one. | |
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Indecipherable Lyrics | |
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Indecipherable Lyrics: Nay nay, Ride, we don't know what you're sayin'. | |
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Cement Shoes | |
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Cement Shoes: Referenced in "The Fever (Aye Aye)". | |
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Slasher Smile | |
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Slasher Smile: The video for "You Might Think...". It's the one time Ride isn't always frowning, and after watching the video, you'd wish it would stay that way. | |
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Mind Screw | |
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There's also a hint of this on Government Plates and Niggas on the Moon, though those two are just incredibly abstract for the most part. | |
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Rock Me, Asmodeus! | |
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Rock Me, Asmodeus!: MC Ride has a tattoo of a symbol from the Necronomicon called the "Sigil of the Gateway". | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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The video finally ends with more footage of Galen suffering from a seizure, only this time he's naked. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The song title "You might think he loves you for your money but I know what he really loves you for it's your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat" is of course a Bob Dylan lyric. "Hunger Games" kind of goes without saying. See Exorcist Head above. Niggas on the Moon seems to reference "Niggas in Paris" by Kanye West and Jay-Z. Likewise, Jenny Death is the name of a fictional member of Coil spinoff Black Light District. The last verse of "Inanimate Sensation" is ripe with references to various (mostly) rock songs, namedropping "Mean Mr. Mustard", "For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)", "Watch That Man", "Endless Nameless", "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)" and "Brooklyn Zoo". "Streaky"'s chorus starts with "Don't throw it on the ground", which is enunciated in the same way, cementing the reference. "Centuries of Damn" seems to have a sly reference to Neon Genesis Evangelion of all things in its lyrics, with imagery apparently referring to the crucified Angel Lilith. "Black Paint" is likely a reference to "Paint It Black". The physical release of No Love Deep Web packages the album in an outer black nylon bag to obscure the cover photo of Zack Hill's penis, borrowing a technique from both Roxy Music (for Country Life, albeit with a green bag) and fellow Harvest Records alum Pink Floyd (for Wish You Were Here (1975), also with a black bag). "Blood Creepin" drops in a reference to Sonic Youth. | |
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Self-Titled Album | |
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Self-Titled Album: Their debut EP. There are also numerous songs that feature their name in the title, including “Death Grips (Next Grips)”, “@DeathGripz”, “Death Grips 2.0”, and “Death Grips is Online”. | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
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Cloudcuckoolander: The whole band, or at least whoever's in charge of their Internet presence. | |
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Taking You with Me | |
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Taking You with Me: "Come Up and Get Me" has Ride intending to do this to the people he thinks are hunting him. | |
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Nothing Is Scarier | |
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"Come Up and Get Me" has a 9-minute "short film" at the start, which treats us with largely silent black-and-white footage of Ride going insane. | |
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch! | |
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This Is for Emphasis, Bitch!: Used frequently by Ride, usually molded into his famous "BEEYOTCH." | |
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Alternate Reality Game | |
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Alternate Reality Game: The band conducted an intense one to drum up hype for NO LOVE DEEP WEB around two months before the album's release, extensively detailed here◊. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome | |
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Deliberately Monochrome: The first nine or so minutes of the "Come Up and Get Me" video is abstract black and white footage seeming to depict Ride going insane. It's also mostly silent. | |
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One-Word Title | |
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One-Word Title: Exmilitary: The album title, "Beware", "Guillotine", "Takyon" (not counting the Either/Or Title), "Klink", "5D" The Money Store: "Blackjack", "Hacker" NO LOVE DEEP WEB: "Whammy", "Stockton", "Pop" Government Plates: "Birds" The Powers That B: "Voila" Bottomless Pit: "Spikes", "Warping", "Eh", "Trash", "Houdini" Year of the Snitch: "Flies", "Shitshow", "Streaky", "Dilemma", "Outro", "Disappointed" | |
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Heartbeat Soundtrack | |
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Heartbeat Soundtrack: Used as the backing beat for "Blackjack". | |
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ToiletHumor | |
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"Shitshow" (which was actually removed from YouTube for its "sexually provocative content" and "fetishes",f and re-uploaded onto Vimeo, so obviously NSFW) contains a fuckload of weird and downright disgusting imagery: The video kicks off with footage of first responders trying to communicate with Galen Pehrson (who animated the True Vulture video) after he suffered a seizure. With a banana randomly floating across the screen. Once the ACTUAL video starts, we aren't just treated to a couple of legs kicking frantically out from a bush, but Zach wiping his ass and a Gross-Up Close-Up of some random lady peeing on the ground. We then see Zach crawling around like a loon in front of people on the hills of Hollywood before sliding back down the hill. And to top it all off, we come back to Zach wiping himself four times (with the same piece of toilet paper, no less) to reveal purple, green, blue, and black liquids on the paper, with footage of Zach placing his hand a weird crystal planted on top of the actual crystal in shot, presumbably for weirdness' sake. If you look closely, you can slightly see Zach's balls. The video finally ends with more footage of Galen suffering from a seizure, only this time he's naked. | |
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Refuge in Audacity | |
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Refuge in Audacity: Oh, let us count the ways... Epic Records giving you some Executive Meddling on your new album release? Just go and release the album for free immediately. Having an erect penis on the cover wouldn't hurt, either. Government Plates and Niggas on the Moon, both deliberately made with high mindfuck levels in the experimental production. | |
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Walking Shirtless Scene | |
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Walking Shirtless Scene: Ride, more often than not. | |
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Either/Or Title | |
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Exmilitary: The album title, "Beware", "Guillotine", "Takyon" (not counting the Either/Or Title), "Klink", "5D" | |
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Performance Video | |
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"No Love" is a Performance Video with the footage split into two parts put up against each other; one part is completely tinted red, and the other is tinted green. Not to mention the sliding captions at the bottom that are in an order such as this: "on the first day I gave a fuck", "on the second day I did not give a fuck", "on the third day I gave a fuck". This then leads to the song and video sometimes being interrupted by a caption that reads: "1000%!!! I USED TO GIVE A FUCK" and a video-only metal-esque guitar riff. | |
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Animesque | |
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Animesque: The cover art for The Money Store, which features a topless wide-eyed moeblob with "DEATH GRIPS" razored into her chest and a dog gimp mask, led around on a leash by another anime-styled girl dressed as a dominatrix, as drawn by Sua Yoo (who draws zines in this style). | |
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Obligatory Bondage Song | |
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Obligatory Bondage Song: Parts of "No Love" and "Spread Eagle Cross The Block". | |
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Blood Bath | |
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Blood Bath: Mentioned in one section of "Steroids". | |
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Broken Record | |
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Broken Record: The hook to "World of Dogs". "It's all suicide, it's all suicide..." The title of "I Break Mirrors with My Face in the United States" is repeated ad nauseam around the start of the song. | |
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Freudian Threat | |
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Freudian Threat: The rather memorable line "I'm the coat hanger in your man's vagina," off of "Deep Web". | |
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Everything Is an Instrument | |
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Everything Is an Instrument: Especially in the sense that their beats are sample-based and often take instrumentation straight from those samples. "Face Melter" samples, of all things, a Kodak printer. The bass of "Hustle Bones" is an overmodulated and pitch-shifted motorcycle engine. "System Blower" sampled the sound of a passing train and fashioned its distinctive bridge from the sound of Venus Williams returning a strike. "Death Grips is Online" and "Outro" feature Lucas Abela playing plate glass—with his face, through a pickup and a bunch of guitar pedals. | |
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Word Salad Lyrics | |
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Word Salad Lyrics: All the time. Doesn't make them less cool, though. | |
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Animal Motifs | |
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Animal Motifs: "World of Dogs" is fairly self-explanatory, comparing modern civilization to a pack of feral dogs. "Flies" uses flies as a shorthand for death and decay, while "Linda's in Custody" features numerous references to worms in much the same fashion. | |
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Exorcist Head | |
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See Exorcist Head above. | |
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Not Quite Dead | |
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Not Quite Dead: Despite the band making a big statement that they were breaking up, they not only put out more music afterwards but left lots of fans in disbelief—not shocked disbelief, but "I know that this isn't true" disbelief. Soon enough, the band not only completed The Powers That B but confirmed on Facebook that their music-making days aren't quite over. | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist | |
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Self-Backing Vocalist: Like most rappers, MC Ride stacks his vocals—but given his trademark style, this is how it typically sounds. | |
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The Oner | |
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The Oner: The video for "You might think..." and the first video for "On GP". In fact, the latter actually confused viewers initially, since the band members are so still in the video that many thought it was a still image (they do move later in the video). "I Break Mirrors With My Face In The United States" is uninterrupted footage of the band rehearsing the song taken from cameras attached to the band members' wrists. The first time, it's shown from Zach's camera; then, the same footage is shown from Ride's camera. | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The video for "You might think he loves you for your money but I know what he really loves you for it's your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat" consists almost entirely of MC Ride smiling and laughing. | |
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Creepy Monotone | |
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"World of Dogs" also has MC Ride repeating "It's all suicide" over and over in a Creepy Monotone. | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song: Their calmest songs musically tend to be their heaviest lyrically, such as "On GP" mostly being nihilistic brooding about life and the pointlessness of it. | |
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Surreal Music Video | |
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Surreal Music Video: Almost their default. "Guillotine" has Ride rapping the lyrics in the passenger seat of a car, with a majority of the screen being consumed by grainy distortion. "The Fever" has the band performing the song, but with an extremely weird darkening filter on the footage. "Full Moon (Death Classic)" switches between Ride ferociously rapping as the footage flickers to no end and grotesquely candid footage of one bird preying on another. "Come Up and Get Me" has a 9-minute "short film" at the start, which treats us with largely silent black-and-white footage of Ride going insane. "No Love" is a Performance Video with the footage split into two parts put up against each other; one part is completely tinted red, and the other is tinted green. Not to mention the sliding captions at the bottom that are in an order such as this: "on the first day I gave a fuck", "on the second day I did not give a fuck", "on the third day I gave a fuck". This then leads to the song and video sometimes being interrupted by a caption that reads: "1000%!!! I USED TO GIVE A FUCK" and a video-only metal-esque guitar riff. "Eh" has an interesting visual effect where all of the people in the video are rendered through neon-like lines of digital animation. Conversely, "Giving Bad People Good Ideas" was filmed on (literally) a shoestring budget and has a shoe being dismantled, and even lip syncing some parts of the song. "Takyon" alternates between a masked individual exploring an abandoned office and Ride rapping with a weird, watery effect on top of the footage. "You Might Think" starts with 15 seconds of a fire being lit and then has a close-up of Ride as he utterly loses his shit in front of the camera. Every other song on Government Plates has a video featuring loops of CGI animation except for "Whatever I Want", which features a POV meeting with a strange, skull-masked character who eventually leads the viewer to Ride laying face up on a bed, eyes wide open. "Streaky" features a womannote Zach Hill's girlfriend, staring into a flashing multi-coloured LED light as glitter is periodically thrown on her, with 2 alternating gifs of a hand squishing some weird objects in the top-right corner. "Flies" has MC Ride floating in the air by way of a stopmotion effect, coupled with a TV screen in a pitch-black room, displaying footage of MC Ride in a white hoodie. "Shitshow" (which was actually removed from YouTube for its "sexually provocative content" and "fetishes",f and re-uploaded onto Vimeo, so obviously NSFW) contains a fuckload of weird and downright disgusting imagery: The video kicks off with footage of first responders trying to communicate with Galen Pehrson (who animated the True Vulture video) after he suffered a seizure. With a banana randomly floating across the screen. Once the ACTUAL video starts, we aren't just treated to a couple of legs kicking frantically out from a bush, but Zach wiping his ass and a Gross-Up Close-Up of some random lady peeing on the ground. We then see Zach crawling around like a loon in front of people on the hills of Hollywood before sliding back down the hill. And to top it all off, we come back to Zach wiping himself four times (with the same piece of toilet paper, no less) to reveal purple, green, blue, and black liquids on the paper, with footage of Zach placing his hand a weird crystal planted on top of the actual crystal in shot, presumbably for weirdness' sake. If you look closely, you can slightly see Zach's balls. The video finally ends with more footage of Galen suffering from a seizure, only this time he's naked. | |
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Sanity Slippage Song | |
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Sanity Slippage Song: Almost every song on No Love Deep Web, particularly "Come Up and Get Me" and "Deep Web". The line "Tongue cut out the mouth of reason and chucked off the river's edge" is a pretty nice summary for the whole album. There's also a hint of this on Government Plates and Niggas on the Moon, though those two are just incredibly abstract for the most part. | |
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Soprano and Gravel | |
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Soprano and Gravel: Any time they have a guest vocalist, they and Ride will be several octaves apart. | |
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Fading into the Next Song | |
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Fading into the Next Song: Exmilitary has several examples: The sampled voicemail message that closes "Beware" ends with "It goes, it goes, it goes, it goes, YUH!", which is the hook of the next track, "Guillotine". The computerized female voice sample that recurs throughout and ends "Culture Shock" leads into the start of "5D". The sample at the end of "Takyon" transitions into "Cut Throat" to form the phrase "Six million ways to die, choose— death." The digital turntable scratches at the end of "Cut Throat" segue into the opening of "Klink", which starts with an analogue turntable scratch. On No Love Deep Web, the echoing voice clip of Ride at the end of "World of Dogs" sets the tempo for "Lock Your Doors". Niggas on the Moon commonly segues directly from one track to the next. Almost every song on Year of the Snitch flows seamlessly into the next, with some being Siamese Twin Songs. | |
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Last Stand | |
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Last Stand: "Come Up And Get Me" is about one, though in the song MC Ride's not even sure if his attackers are real. | |
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Harsh Vocals | |
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Harsh Vocals: One of the very few rap examples. | |
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Textless Album Cover | |
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Textless Album Cover: Fashion Week, Bottomless Pit, Steroids, Year of the Snitch, and Gmail and the Restraining Orders. The Money Store, if the "DEATH GRIPS" carved onto the masochist's chest doesn't count. There is, however, a "clean" (so to speak) version of the cover where the album's title is shown in a white text box that censors the masochist's breasts. | |
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