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The title "Niggas On The Moon" is interesting as it features the word "nigga", never before used in Death Grips lyrics, and because it appears to be an allusion to the Gil Scott-Heron poem "Whitey On The Moon". The poem is about Gil's dissatisfaction with the fact that his taxes are being used for the astonishing yet ultimately meaningless pursuit of putting a white man on the moon while his black family remains in poverty. With the title "Niggas On The Moon", the roles are reversed: black people are now the ones freely being handed things by the government while Asian and especially white people, despite generally being in higher positions, are suffering despite their own personal abilities (it should be noted that Death Grips identify as very individualist).
Take the song Black Quarterback, a song which, on the surface, is about Ride being pulled over by a white cop. The song features the lyrics
>He's so white, no
>I'm so black quarterback, albino
which come off as completely sarcastic given Ride's complete lack of "blackness". In the Pitchfork interview he hardly exhibits any traits of traditional blackness, he very rarely speaks in ebonics, only occasionally using "'pon", and, as previously mentioned, has never used the word nigga, the only thing close being the very insulting use of "jiggaboo" in the song Pop.
Also, note the song Say Hey Kid. The song very often makes reference to "my people", and implies a strong devotion to their boring, first world ways. Is this meant to imply that black people have been tamed by da white man, and that they need to return to their real culture? It seems hard to believe, considering Stefan's genuine personality and they way that the black community continues to suffer in their pursuit of being "gangsta", as ironically demonstrated in Black Quarterback.
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Death Grips fucking suck ass
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>>71852636
fpbp
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>>71852627
You are injecting way too much into this analysis. Everything you mention past the allusion (which IS very interesting) is conjecture without proper evidence.
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I genuinely don't think there's any meaning to any of GP, NOTM, or BP's lyrics. You can make a case for ones like Get Got and On GP but the rest is literal nonsense, and I say this as a big fan.
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>>71852627
Read Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, you might like it
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I think Stefan feels indifference to the fact that people may see him as a white guy or as someone who has 'dismantled his blackness' or 'not letting his blackness shine'.
he wears metal shirts, drinks pabst blue ribbon, plays in a band with two white guys and he seems to enjoy that.
he isn't in any way facilitating the corny anderson paak nu black love MY JORDANS BABY MY JORDANS WERE NEW shit that everyones eating up. that's what the world wants black people to be making but he said nah.
I may be wrong, I don't think Stafan is the coolest awesomest guy. I haven't even listened to the gripz in a year or so, actually.
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>>71852724
Most of the few lyrics on GP seem to make some sense when you really take a look at them, but I tend to agree for the most part for NOTM and BP. On NOTM in particular it seems like the lyrics, rather than being written with any definite meaning, were just used to play around with the sounds of the words rather than what the words actually mean
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>>71852627
>Also, note the song Say Hey Kid. The song very often makes reference to "my people", and implies a strong devotion to their boring, first world ways. Is this meant to imply that black people have been tamed by da white man, and that they need to return to their real culture?
What lyrics denote this?
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>>71852627
pon is jamaican patois not american nignog speech
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I agree that your lyrically analysis is nonsense. Thanks for linking Gil Scott-Heron to Death Grips. I've enjoyed Gil Scott-Heron for most my life and Death Grips for only a few years...Seeing this makes me happy
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>>71853012
Wow Swype keyboard is retarded. Love how it capitalizes Swype too, what a piece of shit.
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Hey Kid is actually a critic of blacks being dependent on welfare
>Support gravity; my people would
Gravity is what keeps you down
Black people support a system which keeps them down
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>>71852627
>hearing my SWPL friend saying "Niggas on the Moon" out loud
>that's the only context I've ever head him say it in
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>>71852627
Started off okay until you started bitching about muh white genocide
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