I really, really, really appreciate that Beezy, Ken, and Ralph (even though they didn't like it) listened to the album all the way through multiple times to try and understand why everyone is loving it.

I like death grips and I respect what they do but I don't bitch when people don't like it, it's brutal and harsh not everyone is gonna like it.

when i listened to it the first time: I've seen footage was the only good song Second time: wait get got is pretty awesome Third time: The Fevers pretty great as well Fourth time: can't get hustle bones out of my head Filth time: well shit now i have to listen to Ex-military again

C-Town is very good at articulating his opinions

I think this is the future of Hip Hop. Maybe not mainstream Hip Hop, but this shit has sent a shockwave that will be felt throughout the underground for ages.

Death Grips pushes the envelope. In the right direction. This is the 2010's, things are evolving. Whether anyone is ready for it or not.

"It doesn't bump in the whip." Kind of funny because I can only REALLY get into Death Grips if I play it in the car lol

When you liking an album comes down to the question "Is this Hip-Hop?" you should really rethink the way you listen to the album...

The dude at 6:00 gets whats going on

Death Grips is like what most rappers build their life up to be like: insane, crazy, loud, and explicit.

If you can't vibe w Fever, Hustle Bones, or Bitch Please you're living life wrong. That shit is FIRE.

"Yo, if it's music, why would you go read the lyrics.. " Cos poetry isn't meant to be read, right?

People either hate or love death grips . Nobody ever says that they're " just ok". Obviously they are genius .

Myke C-Town is my favorite reviewer

props to this channel for getting me hip to death grips- i fuck with them now. they werent easy to listen to, but once you get through that initial awkward phase, its pretty dope

Myke C Town's got the best opinions really, I get what they're saying but I don't think they realize that Death Grips' style isn't trying to appeal to the normal aspects that hip hop is built on

To me Death Grips isn't even Hip Hop, its more like they have created their own sub genre because their sound is so different from anything else.

+1 to Myke C-Town for making a great case. The other guys tried to pick his analysis apart and dig at him a bit but it didn't faze him. Cool guy.

Beezy is just hilarious.

Myke: and when fever hit, OOOWEEE Beezy: what’s so good about it?! 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Beezy's mc ride impersonation is the greatest thing ever hahaha

"Once I heard I've Seen Footage, everything made sense" My god, that's exactly how I felt the first time I listened to it. Upon second listen, I liked it even more. Now, I own it on vinyl.

"Death Grips is back with their first debut album"... my head just exploded.

Myke is the best. He's actually open minded with stuff like this.

My opinion: 9/10. Incredibly catchy. Daring, loud, flawless production (shoutout to Zach Hill), and also very lyrically deep. Only gripe is they stray a bit too far from hip hop on a few places.

Is it possible to like both Mobb Deep, Eric B. and Rakim, Public Enemy and Wu Tang and Death Grips or EL-P? Like can you like both traditional gangsta boom rap and experimental noisy stuff. I do. Music is best enjoyed at all forms, dudes.

My thing with Death Grips is this...I like experimental music and I do not confine myself to hip hop, rock, pop, soul or electronic, but I can't really get past MC Ride's lyrics, even if their deep, because I can't understand what he's saying unless I'm reading them on a website. Music can be loud and experimental, even in hip hop. The Bomb Squad's production was groundbreaking for hip hop but at least you had Chuck D or Ice Cube who wrote music that was just as aggressive and deep, but you could hear them clearly. It's all about the presentation with MC Ride and I just can't get into him specifically. But I actually like some of the production on Death Grips albums! It's just the lyrical presentation that bothers me. It's the same reason I can enjoy Sex Pistols but not some metal bands that yell or slur their words over an entire album. Overall, I'm glad people can enjoy this but it's just not for me. Good review!

Putting music in a box calling it black or white was music's biggest downfall.

I don't think Hip Hop was ever ready for Death Grips. It's too alienating for your average Hip Hop fan.

"Why should you have to go read the lyrics?"!? what a ridiculous question

Exmlitary was way left. Points right. WHICH WAY IS IT?!

Beezy mocking Death Grips was the funniest shit I heard in a long time. Thanks for the laugh, Beezy lol.

I don't personally love the album, but the first guys reasoning for not liking it is because he couldn't see himself "bumpin it in the whip"? Come on now. The reasoning behind them disliking it was so bad, especially for music reviewers. Even if you're a hip-hop reviewer you got to listen to other music. The only guy who sounded sensible was the guy who liked it. He backed up his opinion with facts. Also they said they didn't like it because it strayed away from hip-hop. That's just bad taste in my opinion. I guess my problem is they reviewed it as if it where a some hip-hop mixtape made for the clubs and the radio. And music reviewers should be more open minded than that.

Why are these hipsters so critical of them because they can't fuck with experimental music. ITS EXPERIMENTAL. Death Grips themselves would understand that this won't be appealing to everyone. I've played this to non hip hop listeners who gave it way more stick than they did.

Completely agree with Myke. Love this album

at first i hated this album but giving it a third listen i fuck with it! definitely a Death Grips Fan Now

Thanks to you guys I discovered Death Grip's music and I love it. Thank you for a review. :)

"I know the death grips fans are gonna come at me" LOL

Maaaan, Mike is just too damn good for this channel

Punk Weight was my absolute favourite sonically of the whole album. Anyone else feel the same? Feel like I'm alone on this one haha.

"If I can't understand what he's saying I can't get into it" Pleb

3:43 Beezy predicting the CJ meme

Death Grips releases lyrics with every release, which tells me that they want you to read into their songs alittle deeper. Which really changes the experience. Its like listening to poetry being shouted at you while you are following along. Certainly a different way of doing music, but I think it is incredible. The Brotherhood Of the Bomb is a crazy album too; maybe I could see the influence in terms of hardhitting production. All-around interesting review.

"For me, it's nothing but noise." Even though I think this album is their magnum opus, I appreciate and respect the candid and genuine responses. Death Grips' style is definitely divisive, but even those who despise the sound have valid opinions. It's interesting to hear what aspects of their style turn people off and why. 8:34 "But it's music; why should you have to go read the lyrics?" Music is used for a whole mess of purposes, from vibing in your car on a Saturday night to signifying a moment of importance in traditional ceremonies. Death Grips, imo, is not the kind of music you put on in a public place with people of diverse musical tastes. It's experimental hip-hop because it is the kind of music you're supposed to dissect, break down, and analyze from an artistic perspective. I mean, honestly, who understands what Ride is saying on a first listen? Once you take it in the context of its over-the-top, balls to the wall, aggressive style, I think this album hits the nail on the head regarding themes of violence, paranoia, and feeling overwhelmed. But I completely understand why hip hop aficionados would dislike it; I personally consider it more noise rock than hip hop.

All these guys say they had to listen to it multiple times... Anyone else like me that loved it right off the bat? I don't see what's NOT to love about this album, it's so catchy while being hard and abrasive and straight from the heart as well.

Disliking the album is totally cool, but when you just laugh and mock the vocalists style you are being ignorant.

Actually Anthony just tweeted about an hour ago about he watched this review and loved it. Lol.

Due to the way this show is designed as a conversation viewing, I feel like the one quiet kid in everyone's group that never says anything and maybe nods when someone looks at him once or twice.

Myke once again proves himself as the most forward thinking and open DEHH member.

"You can't put Mc. Ride over fucking Primo."

This album is so iconic even years later I still listen to this in full

so far, this is album of the year until No Love releases. this is an amazing piece of music. it's quite addictive.

i've loved death grips since i first heard them

"Call me a traditional-hiphopolist" Haha!

This is one of those reviews where I just have to wonder why people hate it when their favorite critics disagree with them, I like DG but this is awesome. Always nice to hear an other perspective

Mike C Town always has the same exact opinions as i do on pretty much every single album they review. Awesome review guys, you are spot on as always.

death grips is not just the shit coming out of the speakers, death grips is about the whole concept; their deep and dark lyrics are confronting but speak truth, it's not to be tasty but rather confronting to get you out of your comfort zone,to fuck with your ego and deplete it to the point you learn/grow to expand your mind. It's not conveying something pleasurable, something 'to be vibing to', it is conveying the darkest flaws in humans, the suffering of internal struggle. and all this shit reflects with their attitude and approach with their music. (watch their interview for pitchfork) Death Grips project is a fucking creative masterpiece if you dig below the surface.

Poor Myke C trying to educate plebs smh.

I've never listened to a single metal album but Exmilitary's one of my favourite albums of the last few years. :0

I love when Saul Williams teamed with Trent Reznor to bring an industrial feel to hip hop. I feel like Death Grips took that to a bit of an extreme for me, but it is slowly but surely growing on me. Listening to it on good headphones helps, I think. Any other recommendations?

man i like this format for a review this is dope

this album took me like 8 listens to get it, and when it clicked i loved it. Got me into much more abrasive genres of music like hardcore punk

I actually enjoy the dynamic of all of them sharing their opinions since they all tend to value different things in hip hop, which gives their reviews a more complete outlook of what an album offers to any particular audience.

I love the way you get looads of different opinions and that is what makes DEHH way way way up there in terms of reviewers on youtube

Every time the sound track pauses and loops again it makes I keep thinking that they edited that way to make whatever he's going to say next suspensful.

You guys should review the album clppng by clipping. it's sort of in this vein but it might appeal to the traditionalists.

I feel you but we've had a lot of requests for us to review this and we also are into stepping outside of our comfort zone by experimenting with different forms of "hip hop". Whether we get this or not, we may get something else that fits in this form of music that may be a bit more enjoyable because we're becoming accustomed to certain forms of music we're not typically listening too. I don't want us to be closed in a box.

The guy in the black shirt gets it. Part of the reason Ride's voice is incomprehensible is because it's deliberately blown out to create the sense of chaos that is going on in his mind. As a stylistic choice, it's very a propos and very creatively applied. The fact they successfully created this character over instrumentals that are catchy and poppy is exactly the brilliance of it.

I hear ya, buddy. Personally, The Cold Vein is my all time favorite album, so I got kinda excited. I gotcha. Personally, I respect DG for what they're doing for Hip Hop, but i really just can't listen to them.

This is an amazing album. Its hip hop, in technique, but its also something that transcends the accepted structures and sounds of the form. Kind of a free jazz approach to hip hop. I hear influences from many sources within it, from grime to the digital hardcore of ATR and also even going way back to the early releases of hardcore acts like Black Flag ('Fuck That' especially).

All of my friends who are really into death grips usually listen to high energy punk and death metal. It's interesting to hear what real hip-hop aficionados have to say about it. The first time I listened to each album I found it pretty jarring, but then after a while I was able to appreciate the intensity.

I usually only stick to hip hop, and I love, LOVE this album.

I enjoy all kinds of music. Coming from a predominantly metal background really helps when listening to Death Grips, Bands like Strapping Young Lad and Napalm Death already showed me what it's like to be obliterated by sound. Eventually your ears will learn to decipher the sound, than it's amazing. That being said, Death Grips rocks my ass. I still can't hold on to some of their shit.

Anthony Fantano gon get mad.

It's interesting that I don't really think of this as a hip hop album, even though it is, but it's weird to be listening to it and just remember that it's fundamentally hip hop cause they really make their own sound and I think that's truly impressive. Strangely catchy, addictive music with tracks that really get me going. 9/10

i cant believe myke was wearing this back in the day

for music reviewers you guys don't seem that open minded. you guys seem too comfy with more traditional, familiar hip hop. death grips is a breath of fresh air and have really opened up a new direction, style and sound for hip hop.

hip hop groups like death grips and clipping is not really for the hip hop purist out there.

He snapped on the Lil B review.

It's a really polarizing record. Some myself included see it as the masterpiece it is, others see it as random noises and loathe it. It's definitely worth a listen if you haven't checked it out yet, but it always blows me away everytime.

3:12 I dont fuck wit this at all either but I feel like Beezy really dont fuck wit anything Ive seen maybe 3 reviews total where Beezy actually liked a project lol

My mans think its less aggressive. Did you guys skip Punk Weight or something!?

Admittedly i didn't check out Death Grips till like right after Year of the Snitch, and wonder what my view and thoughts would've been had i been along for the Ride from the beginning, but saw it as a progression. Looking at them when it was all out, it seemed like Exmilitary was, for the most part, less experimental than the monet store, and that the way they utilized sampling on Exmilitary, especially utilizing rock songs, that would've cost a lot if they had cleared them for an official release. It reminded me of rap albums, and the heavy sampling, from both popular and obscure albums, from before the lawsuits that hit Paul's Boutique and de la soul with 3 feet high, and because Exmilitary was aggressive it reminded me of NWA, because they had a lot of sampling done, and not only used james brown and pfunk but also were utilizing a lot of guitar driven rock to amp up the energy of the shots ringing outta compton's most notorious microphone abusers. Money Store seems like they had 3 albums of changes between it of experiments because it had completely gone to new territory, and dropped the guitar samples, and had figured other ways to make that feeling of heavy guitars, and also dropped the types of skit type things that were on exmilitary, or lile the intro where it had madman manson rambling madness to start things off, and it did away with having mexican girl pop in to add a different voice. I feel like they went through time from an alternate universe were Exmilitary was put out right after Straight Outta Compton, and the Money Store was put out in like the late 90s when techno started bleeding through into hip hop, like maybe after Kool Keith did Dr Octagon

3:42 - oh shit, here we go...

Music is an art form. Sometimes intelligibility of vocals has to take the backseat if one is trying to express something more textural and visceral. This guy is expressing his reality as a veteran in the new millennium who has seen some crazy shit. Honestly he is dealing with it in a very healthy way, through art and musical expression, respect. This is way more genuine than the "Yeezus" egotistical B.S.

"first debut album" is a bit of an oxymoron

WOW so this is coming from the same person that said death grips and shabazz Palaces are alot alike... but cant see what death grips and blink 182 have in common???.. see now this should be the real discussion.... what genre death grips fall closer too hip hop or rock....im pretty sure my confusion can make valid points

Apparently they recorded this and at the same time as Exmilitary and No Love (september release) at the same time, well before the signing to Epic. So no, they didn't tone it down and apparently No Love is going to be the aggressive of the two albums.

aw shit here we go lolol

I can't dig their other albums as much as Exmilitary. Sure, they're great, don't get me wrong they're excellent albums, but I just love Exmilitary more.

I love how Kinge was wishing for this album to be MORE aggressive? That being said, I can't wait for "No Love" considering it's suppose to be a darker album than "The Money Store".

I listened to this album 5 times today at work. Crazy Non-sense. It's like some special ed people snuck in the studio and put something together. I like it.

I don't think Myke really understood what the guy was asking at 8:02 when he was asking if you should have to read the lyrics in order to truly appreciate the music, I don't think he's talking about Death Grips specifically, I think he's just saying in music, in general, should you really have to go away and read the lyrics to a song in order to fully enjoy and understand it and I fully agree because that's something I've been wondering for a while. It's like if someone were to release a movie, but in order to really understand the movie, you had to read a whole book to put it in context beforehand - the movie should be able to stand on it's own as a standalone product to be enjoyed and understood for what it is. Similarly, the music we listen to should really be crafted in such a way that you can enjoy it served by itself. If you're having to refer to the lyrics online or on paper to fully appreciate it, I don't believe the music has really done its job well. Sorry if I offend, that's just my opinion. What do others think?

Death Grips went over a lot of peoples heads,,jus sayin

I think anthony fantano said it best when he said listening to this album the first few times was like joining a gang. You're going to get the crap kicked out of you at first, but once you listen a couple of more times and join the gang, it's all...cool. The songs in this album seem to have a lot more direction this time around. It wasn't just MC Ride yelling all over the place.You can place your finger on where the hooks this time around. I think that makes it more accessible than Exmilitary.

First review I watched by you guys.

Mike is the only objective listener out of the dead end guys. The rest are going into like they are expecting hip hop, this ain't hip hop, it's fucking death grips son! It's amazing for what it is, not what someone thinks it should be. Categorization is the death of creativity. 10/10 IMO for the Money Store.

Do they even know what they are talking about? Watch the needledrop with Anthony Fantano for legit music reviews.

Personally I think it's one of the best albums from this year. I love the fact that they made such a catchy- yet "quirky" bizarre album.

Excellent review. I also thought 'I see footage' stood out most and sounded best.