Death Grips have always played the rap game at a meta level, and today they continue by throwing another wrench into the Commercial Machine, releasing their new Government Plates LP as FREE download, as well as creating a video for every track on the record. If you’re looking for clues as to their motivation, song-titles like “Bootleg (Dont need your help)“,”Whatever I want (Fuck who’s watching)“, or “Im Overflow” should provide some insights, and for the literary minded, the lyrics for each track have been posted with their respective YouTube videos, surely making for some interesting textual analysis! Today, for your viewing pleasure, we’ve packaged all the videos as a YouTube playlist, so that you can watch them back-to-back. They utilize several different visual strategies, and their impact is definitely overloading, in the best of ways, when viewed in succession…
In addition to the videos, Death Grips have made Government Plates available for streaming from their Soundcloud page, so check it out here:
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