Death Grips
Formed in December of 2010, Death Grips is an Alternative Hip Hop group consisting of rapper Stefan Burnett (a.k.a. MC Ride), drummer Zach Hill (of the band Hella), and producer Andy Morin. Their music is a unique blend of noise, samples, noise, loud vocals, noise, and subverting and deconstructing almost every Hip Hop trope under the sun.
Death Grips' music contains the following tropes:
- All Drummers Are Animals: Zach Hill plays the hell out of those drums. On studio recordings, they tend to be distorted, brickwalled, chopped, and compressed to almost frightening degrees. When they play live, though, he produces all those sounds by absolutely brutalizing the drum kit.
- Angry Black Man: MC Ride, so much.
- Badass Beard: Again, MC Ride.
- Cloudcuckoolander: The whole band, or at least whoever's in charge of their internet presence.
- Sampling: From Link Wray's classic 60s hit "Rumble" to Arthur Brown's "Fire" to voice clips of Charles Manson.
- New Sound Album: The Money Store is a lot more refined and less angry, compared to Exmilitary. Still incredibly rough and bizarre compared to just about every other rap act out there, though.
- No Budget: Their music videos.
- Signature Song: Guillotine.
- Soprano and Gravel: On the track "Lord Of The Game", featuring Mexican Girl.
- Stylistic Suck: Their songs are intentionally brickwalled and compressed to a brutal degree, and their videos are about as close to a live-action Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff as you can get.
- X Meets Y: Public Enemy meets Industrial Metal. Some have taken to calling their particular style "Noise Rap".