Shareefruck
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I agree that it's more similar to mainstream music than given credit for. When I first heard about them, I was under the impression we were talking about a Captain Beefheart level of inaccessibility/avant-gardness, and I was actually a little disappointed by the supposed originality of it. I think the thing that makes it seem initially unapproachable is less that it's challenging and more that on first listen, the vocal stylings sound like they're coming from a meat-headed, dumb and (literally) herr-derr-sounding guy. The voice actually reminded me of the Gumbys on Monty Python's Flying Circus.This is getting pretty OT at this point but Death Grips are a lot more similar to mainstream rap than most seem to give them credit for, especially those who label them as "just noise" and those who think they are the most original musical act on the planet.
It's definitely more about the sound than the lyrics, but I don't think the lyrics are bad. When you read into them they do get very edgy at times but Ride does a good job building the character that he's portraying on these songs, kind of like MF DOOM. And I would agree that they're hip-hop's answer to punk, especially on their last 2 albums where they added guitars.
But yeah, it's growing on me now. Curious though, you're not actually following/understanding the lyrics as you're listening to them, right? Just reading them after the fact?
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