Trivia / Death Grips

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• Acclaimed Flop: The Money Store is a frequent pick for the band's best album, made a considerable number of year-end lists and is also considered by fans to be one of the greatest albums of the 2010s, but it sold an abysmal 3,200 copies first week and fell off the main Billboard charts immediately.
• Artist Disillusionment: Death Grips have a love/hate relationship with their fans, especially as time went on and certain fans became more invasive or obsessive — compare "Bitch Please", where MC Ride extols his fans for looking for something beyond mainstream, to "Giving Bad People Good Ideas", which is specifically about how shallow-minded their fans are, and "Centuries of Damn", where he states he hates his fans and their unwillingness to break society... and yet, confesses he loves them as well.
• Channel Hop: From Epic Records to Harvest Records. See Executive Meddling below for the reason why.
• Executive Meddling: Epic Records attempted to push back the date of NO LOVE DEEP WEB's release to some time in 2013, when the Alternate Reality Game they'd been running had hyped up an original release date of October 23, 2012 for quite some time. Death Grips responded by immediately leaking the album (22 days ahead of schedule), with a photograph of Zach Hill's penis as the cover. On Halloween 2012, the band additionally leaked confidential letters from Epic, which pushed the label to officially drop them off.
• Follow the Leader: People were quick to draw similarities between Death Grips and Kanye West's album Yeezus, and David Bowie was said to have been inspired by the band for his final album ★.
• Genre Popularizer: For industrial hip hop and punk rap. Those genres had already existed in some form since the 1980's, but Death Grips was the first band to achieve widespread underground success with them.
• He Also Did: Zach Hill is known for his involvement with Hella, among many, many other projects. Also, in addition to his work with Death Grips, Stefan Burnett is a very talented painter.
• No Budget: The vast majority of their music videos are done with very little financial investment. A prime example is "Giving Bad People Good Ideas", which is three minutes and change of Zach Hill fucking around with an old shoe.
• No-Hit Wonder: Despite having one of the biggest and most loyal fanbases on the Internet with passion that often surpasses those of mainstream artists, they have never had an album debut within the Top 40 of the main Billboard charts, they usually fall off the charts in one week and off of other charts in less than a month, and none of their singles even chart. Considering how experimental and non-mainstream their music is and how they often release their music for free, this is completely justified.
• Reclusive Artist: The band as a whole frequently shies away from social platforms, using them at most to upload cryptic messages. Ride has personally identified with this mindset as well:
  "I'm a very private person, I have very few people that I call my friends. I'm very distrustful of human beings in general; I'm very distrustful of media. I have no interest in sharing my personal life with the world. Zero."
• Schedule Slip: The Powers That B achieved notoriety for this. Prior to its finally being released in 2015, the album failed to see a 2014 release (as the band promised) and nearly every speculated release date came and went—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.
• Trolling Creator: 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 Image Boards and elsewhere, making it a bit of an Ascended Meme.) With the song "BB Poison", they have fully become self-aware of the effects they have on their fanbase.

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