Would this band be considered experimental, avant-garde, grounbreaking, etc if it was labeled as grime like it should be? There's nothing hip hop in their music. Of course there's a rapper, but rap doesn't always mean it's hip hop. Their music doesn't contain hip hop beats.
They're the only act moving hip hop forward right now
Gabriel Allen
lol imagine being so stupid you actually believed this
Brandon Mitchell
>a grime act is the only act moving hip hop forward right now
Ethan Morris
t. brockhampton fan
Christian Baker
i dont think op knows them drums
Jeremiah King
This is some high-tier bait.
Evan Davis
>boring
Elijah Murphy
name three (3)
Jayden Rivera
jesus christ this fucking board gets worse daily
Luke Powell
you have severely misinterpreted what grime actually is.
Hudson Young
Death Grips at their worst are still putting out instrumentals that are more layered than anything else in the hip hop sphere, and I'm saying this 100% unironically. Of course it being more rhythmically complex does not mean the music itself is always better, but I so rarely hear production that can compete with them.
Take something as small as the kick-drum on The Fever, this is a relatively accessible song but would any other hip hop act have something like that? There's a reason their beats feel so much more visceral and human than any other hip hop act out there and that's because Zach performs them all electronically, it's not programmed loops, the music is shaped around the amazing shit he is able to pull off and it results in this really richly textured material.
Easton Bailey
tiab i a b
Josiah Johnson
there's an influence there, but DG will never be grime.
Stefan just doesn't have the flow for it, no disrespect
Nicholas Wilson
Would DG be considered experimental, avant-garde, grounbreaking, etc if they were german and were labeled as Digital Hardcore instead of hip-hop?
Cooper Bennett
nice downvotes. keep-up the good fight fellow redditors
Evan Clark
name one act that has done as much for hip hop in the last decade >inb4 muh kanye kanye ruined hip hop, i'm talking about improving it
Luke Baker
TWO PLUS TWO IS FOUR MINUS ONE THATS THREE QUICK MAFFS
Lincoln Collins
kendrick lamar >actually raps about relevant issues death grips >rap about pseudo-intellectual nonsense for white hipsters