Death Grips

Released: June 28, 2011

Songwriter: Zach Hill MC Ride

Producer: Andy Morin Zach Hill

[Intro]
Blalala-lack... mist

[Verse]
Mister who you rise to picket pick it big dick, big dick
Rise the gutter to the surface, never did, never did
Liked to wonder why the shoot end of the ache
I get lost in the shutter of the view
Click click, freeze frame in the floor
Hit the ceiling like a brick, fired up
Every day, every day, every night, every night
Every day giving less of a shit from the side
Through the eye of a shadow
That's what's this, fired up
I'm so high, told rigor mortis grips, fired up
To the sky and out the sky
Where is it, where the fuck is it and why
Did it happen like this, fired up
Told ride through the sky of black mist
Two, three, four, five
We must die, this is it, fired up
Zero the sleazy
We forget that you control how that go drink gallon [?]
At the speed of wrist to read through chose me push to turn
Through his soul to wear yellow to funerals, fired up
Magic coffin all his end of the way let go
Like a high that keeps me low
Oh yeah yeah why
Are you sure that it's tonight
Cause if it's not I might get got
The complication of your system
Unexpected, don't wanna be the victim

Death Grips is an experimental multi-genre group from Sacramento, CA, formed in 2010. Their music and live performances consist of vocals from Stefan “MC Ride” Burnett and production from Zach Hill and Andy Morin. On July 2nd, 2014, the band officially announced their disbanding via a note on their Facebook page. However, on October 21, 2015, they announced they ‘might make some more’ music together, and released a new album, Bottomless Pit in 2016. Their latest album, Year of the Snitch, was released in 2018.

The band’s music has been described as punk rock, hip-hop, noise, industrial, and electronic. Their sound ranges from minimalistic and trunk-rattling heaviness (such as on “No Love”), to rapping about dark subjects over heavily distorted samples (like on “I’ve Seen Footage”). They have also released two entirely instrumental albums, Fashion Week and Interview 2016, which feature abrasive and violent electronic beats and some guitars.

Frontman Stefan Burnett’s violent lyrics draw inspiration from a struggle both against himself and against the world at large, focusing on themes of individualism, paranoia, mental illness, drug use, occultism, and the emotionally degenerative nature of modern society.

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