Death Grips

Released: April 14, 2012

Songwriter: Zach Hill MC Ride

Producer: Andy Morin Zach Hill

[Intro]
Get up
Beats 'bout waist deep
Swallowed by beats
I stay niche
I stay-
Get up
Beats 'bout waist deep
Swallowed by beats
I stay niche
I've seen footage

[Verse 1]
What's that? Can't tell
Handheld dream shot in hell
Deep space ghetto streets (Streets, streets)
Show me somethin' I ain't seen before
Mystery 'hind that death door
Juke step electrocute the floor
What's the science of flyin' that high?
Got a no-no goin' one time
Creeps up behind me
Over my shoulder
Turn around, try to see, but it's nowhere
Noided, noided, static on my blindside
I've seen footage, I stay noided, I've seen footage

[Chorus]
I've seen footage, I stay noided, I've seen footage, I stay-
I've seen footage, I stay noided, I've seen footage, I stay- (Noided, noided)
I've seen footage, I stay noided, I've seen footage, I stay-
I've seen footage, I stay noided, I've seen footage, I stay- (Noided, noided)
I've seen

[Verse 2]
Everybody's knowin'
Where ya think you're goin' ain't goin' nowhere
Satellite, handle that
With a lead pipe
Who captures life
Who takes what's left, who stay
On that next, already know my gillicutti, like I told you
Don't touch me
What's up with it
(I stay noided) Stimulation overload account for it
Desensitized by the mass amounts of shit
(I've seen) I've seen it, I've been it
Can't delete it, feels like jail (Noided)
Full Moon in the klink
Shining, don't sleep
Surveillance post my bail

[Chorus]
I've seen footage, I stay noided, I've seen footage, I stay-
I've seen footage, I stay noided, I've seen footage, I stay- (Noided, noided)
I've seen footage, I stay noided, I've seen footage, I stay-
I've seen footage, I stay noided, I've seen footage, I stay- (Noided, noided)
I've seen

[Post-Chorus]
Get up
Beats 'bout waist deep
Swallowed by beats
I stay niche
I stay-
Get up
Beats 'bout waist deep
Swallowed by beats
I stay niche
I've seen-

[Verse 3]
Armored cop open fire Glock
On some kid who stepped so
Fast was hard to grasp what even happened
'Til you seen that head blow
Off his shoulders in slow-mo
Rewind that, it's so cold (Noided)
Rewind that, it's so cold (Noided)
I've seen footage, I stay noided
Juke step with so much boy-rude looseness
Seem like no bones in him skin (Noided)
My jaw hit the floor, like "This real footage
Gotta see that one mo' 'gain"
(I stay) Ambulance hit and run over pedestrian in Brazil
Little tiger, boy soldier
Twist cap back and kill (Noided)

[Pre-Chorus]
Seen crazy shit, man, crazy shit
Seen crazy shit, man, crazy shit, crazy
I've seen crazy shit, crazy shit, crazy shit, crazy shit
Crazy shit, crazy shit, crazy shit, crazy shit
I've seen crazy shit, crazy shit, crazy shit, crazy shit
Crazy shit, crazy shit, crazy shit, crazy shit

[Chorus]
I've seen footage, I stay noided, I've seen footage, I stay noided
I've seen, I stay noided, I've seen footage, I stay noided (Noided, noided)
I've seen footage, I stay noided, I've seen footage, I stay noided
I've seen, I stay noided, I've seen footage, I stay noided (Noided, noided)
I've seen

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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