Bitchs aint Shit but good people

This photo represents Death Grips pretty well. They just don't give a fuck. Period. Listening to them is intimidating and sometimes can feel like getting punched in the face. Formed in Sacramento, California, in 2010 D.G. consists of Andy "Flatlander" Morin, drummer Zach Hill (Hella), and vocalist MC Ride. The production between Zach and Andy is simply astonishing! Most of Death Grips songs I could have listened to without any vocals and I still would be raving right now, but we get the pleasure of MC Ride yelling on all the tracks which can be abrasive from time to time. True this isn't music for everyone, its just that aggressive, which I understand. Death Grips have a point about the intensity of their music though. For example on their last album the cover art consisted of a giant dick with the title of the album written in sharpy across it. At first I really didn't enjoy the "art" of it, but it started to make sense. The cover has to do with male aggression and how that rubs off on their fan base. Figuring the cover art would turn most aggressive men in particular away.
   
     Aside from cover art though Death Grips have accomplished A Lot as a band in just three short years. Their first release was a mixtape named E-military, which you can find online for free. In 2012 Death Grips went all out, being my personal favorite artist of 2012. I'm not sure how but Death Grips managed to release two albums in one year, 1) The Money Store. 2) No Love  Deep Webb. The Money Store was a near almost perfect album, about one or two tracks that weren't perfect, the album also had my personal favorite song of the year "Hacker" which has MC Ride yelling great lines like "Gaga can't handle this shit" and "Teaching bitches how to Swim." Overall the Money store delivers and displays Death Grip's best material.

     No Love Deep Webb however is a far different story. I didn't find it as enjoyable as the money store, but boy is it still a great album with an even more incredible story. Death Grips got signed to Epic Records with a deal to complete two albums in one year, however when the band learned that Epic wasn't going to release the second record in 2012 the band took matters into their own hands.  Through social media outlets and other useful internet tools the band released No Love to the public for free and as fans were hearing it for the first time so were the record executives at Epic. Needless to say they were pissed and eventually Death Grips and Epic parted ways. What Death Grips did though I feel is classic punk rock at its finest. Releasing a studio LP for free and completely fucking over the record company at the same time. Now I do wish that I could have a physical copy of  "No Love Deep Web" on Vinyl, but that most likely won't happen. On the bright side though Death Grips showed that you don't need a "Music Industry" what so ever! Now days all an artist needs is a twitter account, access to peer to peer file sharing, along with internet access. That's pretty important.

Hacker

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