History Trivia / DeathGrips

** Lo and behold, people were quick to draw similarities to Death Grips in Music/KanyeWest's album ''Yeezus''.

* DoingItForTheArt: Their entire ethos. They "broke up" mostly because they were afraid that this would be uncontrollably subverted.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Epic Records attempted to push back the date of ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'''s release to some time in 2013, when the AlternateRealityGame they'd been running had hyped the original release date of October 23rd for quite some time. Death Grips responded by ''immediately'' leaking the album, with a photograph of a penis as the cover.

* ScheduleSlip: ''The Powers That B'' achieved notoriety for this. Prior to its finally being released, ever since it failed to see a 2014 release (as the band promised), nearly every speculated release date has come and passed--even ones promised (and later retracted) by Harvest Records. Their website had been promising that "digital and physical release dates [were] coming soon" since ''October 2014.''

* OneOfUs: The band is very knowledgeable, and at times downright obsessed, with the seedier, weirder side of the internet, and maintain lots of contact with their fans via ImageBoards. MC Ride namedrops [[ImageBoard 4chan's]] /mu/ board in the song "Fuck That", and their second album ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'' was given a AlternateRealityGame based around both /mu/ and the Tor-based so-called "deep web", run entirely by the band members themselves. They even responded to a fan's question asking if they would accept [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin Bitcoin]] as a payment method for their album. They said yes.

* TrollingCreator: So very much. As but one example, the letters of the songs on ''Fashion Week'' spell out ''Jenny Death When'', referring to the fact that the release date for ''Jenny Death'' had yet to be announced at the time of ''Fashion Week''[='=]s release. (The phrase was a popular question on ImageBoards and elsewhere, making it a bit of an AscendedMeme).

* ScheduleSlip: ''The Powers That B'' has achieved notoriety for this--ever since it failed to see a 2014 release (as the band promised), nearly every speculated release date has come and passed--even ones promised (and later retracted) by Harvest Records. Their website has been promising that "digital and physical release dates [are] coming soon" since ''October 2014.''

* DoingItForTheArt: Their entire ethos. They broke up mostly because they were afraid that this would be uncontrollably subverted.

** On stage, Andy normally looks threatening, dressing in all black and moving spontaneously. However [[http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nutVnGfTFg this video]] revealed him as simply a nerdy and awkward audio engineer.

* ScheduleSlip: ''The Powers That B'' has achieved notoriety for this--ever since it failed to see a 2014 release (as the band promised), nearly every speculated release date has come and passed, without so much as an official announcement. Their website has been promising that "digital and physical release dates [are] coming soon" since ''October 2014.''

** However, it has been said that St. Patrick's Day 2015 would be a final and true date for the album's completion, but the band could still yank the rug from underneath us.

* ScheduleSlip: ''The Powers That B'' has achieved notoriety for this--ever since it failed to see a 2014 release (as the band promised), nearly every speculated release date has come and passed, without so much as an official announcement. Their website has been promising " Digital and physical release dates [are] coming soon" since ''October 2014.''

* ScheduleSlip: ''Jenny Death'' has cranked it [[UpToEleven up to]] [[SerialEscalation A HUNDRED]] at this point. First it was speculated that it would drop around Fashion Week (the event, not the album), but that didn't happen. Several retailers claimed that it would then drop on February 10, 2015, and ''that'' didn't happen. Now, the wide majority believes somewhere around the end of March 2015 to be the final date, but considering the band's high tendencies for crypticness, even ''that's'' up in the air.

* XMeetsY: Some have taken to calling their particular style "Noise Rap".
** Music/{{Hopsin}} physically assaulting Music/AphexTwin.
** Music/VenetianSnares punching Music/DieAntwoord in the throat.
** Excepter and Dan Deacon strangling Music/{{Busdriver}}.
** Music/NineInchNails at its harshest, being kicked in the crotch by the entirety of Music/{{NWA}} on acid.
** D12 force-feeding Music/DepecheMode their entire drug stash.

* TrollingCreator: So very much. As but one example, the letters of the songs on ''Fashion Week'' spell out ''Jenny Death When'', referring to the fact that the release date for ''Jenny Death'' had yet to be announced at the time of ''Fashion Week''[='=]s release. (It's on February 10, incidentally).

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: On Stage / Record, MC Ride is a gangbanger who has major mental and anger issues. Offstage, Stefan Burnett is a soft-spoken, mild-mannered man who likes to paint. The same can be said for Zach and Andy.

** D12 force-feeding Music/DepecheMode their entire drug stash.

* XMeetsY: PublicEnemy meets {{Industrial}}. Some have taken to calling their particular style "Noise Rap".
** Or HardcoreHipHop meets {{Industrial}} meets CyberPunk meets PunkRock

** Music/NineInchNails at its harshest, being kicked in the crotch by the entirety of Music/{{NWA}} on acid.

* ShoutOut: The song title "You might think he loves you for your money but I know what he really loves you for it's your brand new leopard skin pillbox hat" is of course a Music/BobDylan lyric.

* OneOfUs: The band is very knowledgeable, and at times downright obsessed, with the seedier, weirder side of the internet, and maintain lots of contact with their fans via ImageBoards. MC Ride namedrops [[ImageBoard 4chan's]] /mu/ board in the song "Fuck That", and their second album ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'' was given a AlternateRealityGame based around both /mu/ and the Tor-based so-called "deep web", run entirely by the band members themselves. They even responded to a fan's question asking if they would accept [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin Bitcoins]] as a payment method for their album. [[http://twitter.com/DeathGripz/status/239228230580711425 They said yes.]]

* OneOfUs: The band is very knowledgeable, and at times downright obsessed, with the seedier, weirder side of the internet, and maintain lots of contact with their fans via ImageBoards. MC Ride namedrops [[ImageBoard 4chan's]] /mu/ board in the song "Fuck That", and their second album ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'' was given a AlternateRealityGame based around both /mu/ and the Tor-based so-called "deep web", run entirely by the band members themselves. They even responded to a fan's question asking if they would accept [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin Bitcoins]] as a payment method for their album. [[http://twitter.com/DeathGripz/status/239228230580711425 They said yes.]]

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: On Stage / Record, MC Ride is a gangbanger who has major mental and anger issues. Offstage, Stefan Burnett is a soft spoken, mild manor man who likes to paint. The same can be said for Zach and Andy.

* OneOfUs: The band is very knowledgeable, and at times downright obsessed, with the seedier, weirder side of the internet, and maintain lots of contact with their fans via ImageBoards. MC Ride namedrops [[ImageBoard 4chan's]] /mu/ board in the song "Fuck That", and their second album ''NO LOVE DEEP WEB'' was given a AlternateRealityGame based around both /mu/ and the Tor-based so-called "deep web", run entirely by the band members themselves. They even responded to a fan's question asking if they would accept [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin Bitcoins]] as a payment method for their album.

* MeanCharacterNiceActor: On Stage / Record, MC Ride is a gangbanger who has major mental and anger issues. Offstage, Stefan Burnett is a soft spoken, mild manor man who likes to paint. The same can be said for Zach and Andy.