Released: June 8, 2014

Songwriter: MC Ride

Producer: Andy Morin Zach Hill

[Automated Voice]
Doors and windows on
Motions on
*Beep beep beep*

[Refrain]
Sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my

[Verse 1]
(I'll take my life like I kept it)
I'll take my life like I kept it
Up my sleeves never sounds like you meant it
Up my sleeves, I'll take my life anyway I can fetish
Snatch my fetish, snatch it only as directed
Snatch it cause I got the queen's tits
Up my sleeves, snatch it like you're the queen's bitch
Up my sleeves, I hold your ground with my perch
Up my sleeves, feel my slur, quench my hearse
Up my sleeves, I don't wanna cut my nap
I don't wanna fuck you back
I'm whirling, ohh, my agony's priceless
I'll take my life any way you can slice it
Snatch my shaman fetish
Diner in the desert for effect, for effects
Snatch my shaman like connect, disconnect
(I'm a) I'm the wretch Maya

[Background: Refrain 2]
I've always known
I've always known

[Verse 2]
If you can't snatch my fetish, I'll FedEx it (I've always known, I've always known)
Notify me when you miss it
I'll be in my liquid
Pickle punked lavish (I've always known, I've always known)
If you miss it, I'll track it (Don't but when I do, I'll tell you how I knew)
My fetish like magic (I've always known, I've always known)
Feel contrived instant you snatch it

[Bridge]
Snatch my, snatch my, fetish
I keep it, up my-
Snatch my, snatch my, fetish
Snatch my, snatch my, fetish
I keep it, up my-

[Interlude]
Like I'll ever know
Was like I even want to know
Was like I never didn't know
Was like I don't know I don't know
If I'm so necessary
Blank blank obituary
At Broadway cemetery
At Broadway cemetery
Was like I'll ever know
Was like I even want to know
Was like I never didn't know
Was like I don't know I don't know
If I'm so necessary
Blank blank obituary
At Broadway cemetery

[Verse 3]
Tsk tsk tsk, my terracotta army
Disarms me, disowns me
Also, also, also, Mr. Whippy told me
Hit play highway hocus, ain't much more highway can ride me
My dead mother in my dream, remember when December
Blew her ashes 'cross my jeans, off these jeans
Something's only I have seen, some people only I have been
Used to know who I was, fuck if I knew who that was
Pay no mind, illogical, just don't die in a hospital
Oh, yeah, I should be worried, oh, yeah, I'm temporary

[Background: Refrain 2]
Don't but when I do
I'll tell you how I knew
I've always known
I've always known

[Verse 4]
I was conceived, by my disease, up my sleeves (I've always known, I've always known)
Anyhow, anymore, anyone, anything (Don't but when I do, I'll tell you how I knew)
Anywhere, anytime, snatch my fetish (I've always known, I've always known)

[Refrain]
Sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my sleeves
Up my sleeves, up my

[Outro]
Nothing you can offer I ain't hocked (Up my sleeves)
Everything's nothing to me, I'm knocked (Up my sleeves)
We can't maim a martian till you come (Up my sleeves)
I abstain from being and succumb (Up my sleeves)
Don't feel none, I flog the remedy, up my sleeves (Up my sleeves)
Alchemy for your bodily, up my sleeves (Up my sleeves)
Nonsensically, up my sleeves (Up my sleeves)
Got a pendleton on my valley, up my sleeves (Up my sleeves)

Death Grips

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.