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Riff: Death Grips – “Inanimate Sensation”

Dec 15, 2014

Brag your making music, naw you’re makin’ bacon/Skinhead, skinhead inna Dublin/I like my ipod more than fuckin’

from Inanimate Sensation lyrics by Death Grips

The opening vocal “engine revving,” like a kid fake-driving, reminds of that first DG impression – ‘is this amazing, or terrible?’ It becomes the former when the drums come in and Ride whisper-screams on technology sexualizing, poverty-power and originality over-powering copycats (cough, Kanye); [LISTEN].

Riff by Karl Ernest

Karl is a Seattle-based musician and writer at SONGLYRICS; a veteran of both east and west-coast scenes, he has performed with the likes of The Ying Yang Twins, David Arquette, Wynton Marsalis, among others. But he's no stranger to seedy dives or house shows, either.

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