Day 50
Death Grips - Beware
Well if I had a song that was the absolute soundtrack and mood of my day it's gonna have to go to this one. The bludgeoning opener of the groups debut mixtape Exmilitary. To me it sums up the mission statement of what Death Grips is (I mean who else starts and album with a Charles Manson sample with a weird kind of creepy bass line?) with the chorus of "I close my eyes and see it/I clench my fists and beat it/I light my torch and burn it/I am the beast I worship!" the song introduced the world to the fractured skitzo persona that Rode plays in the songs. This lunatic who has absolutely no moral center and extremely violent tendencies. The production is thick and heavy mashing distorted guitars, trumpets, electronic sounding drums, and one of my absolute favorite vocal samples. And on the point of vocals come MC Ride's performance which is my favorite of any Death Grips song. As per usual his vocals rip into your throat and tear out your insides, but he has a special type of vicerality that not many of their songs reack, like he literally jumps out of the songs puches you in the face, puts you in his car, takes you to his basement, toes you up, and as torture screams at you for eons. One of my absolute favorite DG tunes around, and totally completely ****s you in the mouth.
Have a wonderful day,
Machine
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