Death Grips

Released: March 19, 2015

Songwriter: Zach Hill MC Ride

Producer: Andy Morin Zach Hill

[Intro]
Try and tame me
Try and tame me
Try and game me

[Refrain]
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?

[Verse 1]
Try and tame me
I'll ruin you, fucker, try your luck
Luck's on your side, you're feeling yourself, huh, fucker?
That about enough
Well, guess what fucker
Fucker, try and game me, then
I'm end of your line
I need an offering, you'll do just fine
I'm Type A hell

[Refrain]
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?

[Verse 2]
Try and tame me
It's not about you, fucker
Don't make me make this about you, fucker
Try and tame me, I dare you
Try and tame me, how dare you?
I stand through you
Obviously
I laugh when you ask if you're under my spell
Obviously
I guide your demise like funeral sails
Obviously
My touch tied to strings that steer my figures inside out their wax
You pour, I swill, you're false like tears, priceless to feel my subjects crack

[Refrain]
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?

[Verse 3]
Try and tame me, I'll redirect
Ain't fucker tame me yet
Fit to try and tame me, be my guest
Just try and game me, bitch
Try and tame me - I'm like, "So, anyway"
Try and game me - I'm like, "No, not today"
This bitch
Try and tame me
I'll make you mine

[Refrain]
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?
Why a bitch gotta lie?

[Outro]
Try and tame, if you're so sure
Ain't dead or alive, ain't wore this floor
My floor tremble
Your voice, silencer
I make your choice
I make no excuses, just fucking noise
Try and tame me, maybe not up to you because
Can't tame me I'm proof of
Fuck you gonna do, scream?

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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