Death Grips

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what sold them was lots of static + mc ride lolling around like a a sleepwalking henry rollins & tweeting AYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYEAYE

I dunno why ppl itt are doing stupid backflips about what to call this since there's like no short tradition of like Beatnigs, Death Comet Crew, Dalek, Techno Animal, Kill The Vultures, k-the-i???, Sensational, Hawd Gankstuh Rappuhs & half-the-Wordsound-roster dudes rapping or "rapping" over noise

yeah, but 'dudes rapping or "rapping" over noise' is a stupid thing to call it, so...

do love dalek & death comet crew. the former got a lot of hype & attention circa filthy tongues, but i have no idea why they fell off the map for so many people after that. definitely deserve more attention & credit than they generally get.

Death Grips is like rapping without hip hop. Maybe it's NuMetal!

i think it kind of is, or 90s-style rap metal. not such a bad thing.

I'm calling it "rap"

whiney's comment about how the freewheeling energy / no samples cleared vibe on ex-mil trumps this otm
not that this is bad at all and i am going to JUMP THE FUCK AROUND to i seen footage when they play it

Whiney you forgot New Kingdom

There's two things that are pretty constant in hip hop that Death Grips lacks. One, even with freaky stuff like Odd Future or Ghetto Boys, there's an implied community, or at least a crew that's got your back. Two, there's a generally a steady BPM. Waka Floka sorta just yells too, but it's steady. Ex Military fits in on http://grindcorekaraoke.com/ 'cause a lot of that stuff is lone kids with sequencers building up a barrage that sounds like a full band changing tempo ever few seconds. Death Grips is like rapping without hip hop. Maybe it's NuMetal!

why did no one call this out as being completely wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoJ37xCi3KQ

I mean, these guys basically built their entire career on stutter-stop polyrhythmic flow and they weren't the only ones, and nothing flow-wise on the Death Grips album is further out there or less arhythmic than anything happening on the Shabazz Palaces releases, which I don't think anyone would argue against fitting into hip-hop because the dude doing it used to be in Digable Planets

Was hoping someone would call it out! Just throwing it out there. But I guess my point is that DG breaks two things- being twice out of step is what makes it seem iffy.

Those two things are kind of arbitrary? I mean, you can make an argument about hip-hop acts presenting themselves within their music as parts of larger posses and the sense of community that context provides, but it ignores a bunch of stuff that had at least a national profile which was undeniably tied to hip-hop (not only alt/underground stuff like Urban Dance Squad, Dream Warriors and MC 900 Foot Jesus, but mk I Digable Planets).

Also, the rhythm thing just is completely wrong and makes zero sense. I really don't know what the people comparing dude's flow to PMT-era Tricky are actually listening to because it doesn't appear to be either Death Grips release.

(which btw, I'm listening to the first one after a weekend of mainlining Siouxsie and the Banshees instead of Depeche Mode and it's making a lot more sense now, lol)

also: ctrl-f "pet shop boys" yields no hits

shame on all of you

i guess maybe every single element of death grips has been done before or better or in a more avant way, but none of that takes away from the amount that they just RULE IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE

^ yah, quit needing to explain it and just enjoy it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MUGAxpI0Bc

i would erase everything that Death Grips has ever recorded to save the master tapes to "Ante Up"

oh well duh

i've been liking this more and more as i've listened more

thing it kinda reminds me of in a weird way is Von Sudenfed the Mark E Smith/Mouse on Mars thing

i really need to go out and get this in a store, just to support the idea of shit like this coming out on a major label

I will buy at the show and have every intention of taking a permanent sharpie to a white shirt and making a DEATH GRAPES tee to wear there

i'd been waiting for you to quietly mod the thread title to "Death Gripes"

man yesterday the first album just CLICKED for me

"Guillotine" is just.... YES

it goes

YUH

Just semi-committed to going to Hopscotch this year, before I noticed that they're playing the festival. YUH

definitely liking this more and more and it's good advice to stop worrying about how it compares the first one

front page of the guardian today, money money money

finally got a chance to listen through the new one, it's banging in a diff way than ex-military but their vibe def comes thru. plus I dig a cool sample as much as the next guy but it's nice to listen to them without getting "rumble" ruined for all time.

apparently they canceled all their tour dates? fuckers

waht

Quite a few people on their Facebook page are pissed.

that's a little weird

yeah, cancels include a local show they were supposed to play tomorrow night

http://thirdworlds.net/shows.php
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am i missing something?

Death Grips
3 hours ago
we are dropping out to complete our next album NO LOVE. see you when it's done. (there are no longer any scheduled shows)

they got a career now, yo

NO LOVE lol

dick move

no love is name of new alb btw

what the fuck, then don't book your tour you assholes

that said, tickets are still available for sale on ticketmaster so ahma wait and see

Event Cancellation Notice
The following event has been cancelled:

Death Grips
06/14/12 8:00 PM EDT
TT the Bear's

The tickets you purchased will be automatically refunded to the credit card used to make the purchase. Please allow up to five business days for the refund to post to your account.

yeah, they cancelled ny now too. this is that bullshit

kinda bummed cuz it woulda been cool to see them in a small room like TT, next time they come through they'll prolly be at some 1000 capacity venue

kinda wanna say fuck these guys. they've been talking up this two albums in 2012 thing long enough to know before they booked the tour that they weren't going to have enough time, should've just never booked it in the first place.

kinda bummed cuz it woulda been cool to see them in a small room like TT, next time they come through they'll prolly be at some 1000 capacity venue

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Monday, May 7, 2012 12:05 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kinda bullshit if it was just a way to get out a small club tour and re-book it in bigger venues...

around the time that her big song was breaking adele cancelled a gig at First Avenue because of a "sore throat", which just happened to be re-booked 2 months later at the 20,000 capacity target center

it could very well be a result of a label dispute re: contractual touring obligations

do you know those guys or something?

lol. no.