Exmilitary Is a Masterpiece
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ต.ค. 2024
- Reflecting on Death Grips' groundbreaking debut mixtape 10 years after its release.
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this album got me banned from using the aux cord permanently
10/10
Same but not when I am the driver in my own car.
Your friends are not worth you.
Just saying.
Worth it
@@ravenitz "banned from using the aux cord"
They BANNED his taste.
He needs to be comprehensive but they can act like this ?
Alright, probably just a joke and all but... Get it ? They're not worth him if they act like this with HIS preferences.
@@AMP_7 yeah it was a joke.
I listen to death grips, you think I have friends??
i’m so glad fantano is finally finding out about death grips, i have a feeling he’s gonna really like them
yeah i'm sure he'll like the money store
@deez nuts nah. maybe a light 9
He already knew Death Grips, there's a lot of videos about them on his channel actually
@@RicardoP404 no way
@@RicardoP404 anybody else hear that wooosh
Let’s Argue: Death Grips’ albums would not have been reviewed by Anthony if Death Grips never made any albums and Anthony was a forklift driver at a corn canning factory.
i think he would like them anyways
I... Agree
i disagree
amazing insights
Real talk fr fr
I can't believe you're now 10 years old, Anthony! Time flies so fast!
Big boy Anthony just hit double digits!
Thanks bro bless
My name: AxxL
My job: Superstar
I like: Handsome girls
I have: 2 handsome girlfriends
My dream: Have more subs than my 2 girlfriends
Your name: max
He's a big boy now
Thisthony manytano
Next year: "The Money Store is a super masterpiece"
I never expected you to be here ngl
Exmilitary is better than the money store
Wow didn't expect you here
@@elperronimo FUCK NO
@@balmain-i3e i agree with him. Every song off money store is amazing but most songs are perfect on em. If you ask me, that puts em ahead by just a little
I remember this coming our around Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues which was on HEAVVVVVY rotation. My mom overheard me listening to Exmilitary and begged me to go back to the nice guitar music. I miss my mom
Mom wasn't rocking with Takyon?!
the contrast 😭😭
I’m sorry your mom became a man, rip
@@SpenceTheHoosier My entire family was not with it 😣
I miss your mom too 🥲
Exmillitary is the most album of the decade
Agreed it’s a very album
It’s an EXtremely album
@Average Drew xD?
Actually it's the most mixtape of the decade
It's definitely the most album of the mixtape.
Because of Death Grips, I now listen to my dad mowing the lawn and be like, “ This baseline kinda slaps”
Mood
@@notseenontv4819 haha. Such a millenial thing to sau5
ring a bell tho
damn this printer got bars
@WEBCAM BABY USA FUCKING FACTS
It’s actually pretty crazy how much Fantano reviewing Exmilitary impacted the trajectory of both Death Grips career and his own
If Fantano never reviewed the money store death grips would be WAY more obscure, he basically paved a path for their career.
its a win win
@@hish367 Niggy Tardust from Saul Williams
@@asap.6283 thanks you’re the best
@@Adam-ke7ig crazy how influential fandango is in the industry.
An album that only gets better with age
lol love the vids good 2 see you here xD
Lol sup brotha
Ages better than me, I love your videos they are very comforting to watch in this world of suffering.
Nice dood u here
Big daddy Platty also listens to experimental Sacramento based hip hop? 😱🥵😏
I still listen to this when I'm at the gym/having a psychotic episode at the grocery store.
It's S tier running music, too.
exactly!!!!!
2 very similar experiences
absolute staple of my gym experience, whenever I can't think of anything to put on while working out I just slap this album on and start pumping like I was about to enter the 5th dimension
Listened to the money store + some of ex military at the gym today. I think I’ve seen footage is my most listened to song this year with several other DG songs in the top 20. God tier shit. It literally ruined all the workout music I used to love. Nothing hits hard enough anymore.
Really sweet to hear Anthony Grips talk about his father's cool Indie band
Agreed!(☝︎ ՞ਊ ՞)☝︎
I wish Stefan would come out with some new shit. Zach and Andy stay busy and pretty public about what they're doing on instagram, hopefully Stefan doesn't disappear completely if Death Grips is really done.
As much as many of us would like to see "ft. MC Ride" on another artist's track, I can understand and even somewhat expect Stefan to keep a low profile when DG ends it.
@@thirtyyearoldmulberryfield at least we know he’s still alive, he was on andy’s instagram a couple weeks ago
Stefan’s just laying low and supporting his friends
What is Zach doing? I only know the A2B2 thing Andy is doing
@@POZOLEDECARAMELITO He recently made a remix of Danny Elfman's "Kick Me"
5:15 "The insanely heavy beat of takyon"
Plays part of song with no beat
The only bad thing about Exmilitary is it's not on Spotify.
i found a podcast that pirates it so i guess that works
It’s all over
@@liquidRkive whats it called???
@@space_1073 its called it
It's because it's a mixtape completely filled with samples which I'm sure Death Grips never got or paid permission to use, which would make it a nightmare of paying royalties and take a very long time to get permissions for it to make it on spotify.
Spread Eagle will always be a banger
Underrated DG cuts imo. Such an odd balance of swagger and aggression.
SHIT IS MINE! IT'S ALL MINE!!
he do be fucking the music with his serpent tongue
I fuck the musiiiic I make it cUuUmmm
On acid it's amazing
This is my favorite Kero Kero Burito mixtape
I thought it was kuri kuri
Sarah killed it on Beware
@@lephoquebleu8302 I loved her flow on Takyon bro
It's definitely one of the albums of the past 10 years.
it made me grit my teeth in front of my dad many times over the years
this album definitely was one of the most albums in this past decade
It did be an album during the last 10 years tho
@@nishi9025 the most best 👎👎👎
Based
Glad you finally caught on to my favorite underground rap group!!
Next: check out The Smiths
It’s sick!!! Hey if you like underground bands check out Nirvana
@Ivory_ Lagiacrus_YT 🤭
If you really want an underground band, check out The Velvet Underground. Cant get more unknown than that.
I got an artist that is so unknown NOBODY even knows they exist except me.
The Beatles
Listened to it tripping 5 grams of mushrooms camping and looking at the stars. Had an insane time. So many different perspectives on the sounds. Known For It and Culture Shock will always stand out to me. Finally saw them in ‘15 on the Jenny Death tour. I’ll never forget the noided times, one of my fave bands.
Bro...a couple yrs ago I discovered them and listened to entire projects without knowing when each song would stop and start, while on psychedelics. Bro it's trip in itself
It’s funny how this video is longer than his Exmilitary review.
When TH-cam wasn’t about getting 10 minutes
Do I have to fact check u rn my guy?
Yeah my dude was speakin facts my bad
@@jasongranados5783 L
@@wespicedmemes they changed it to 8
I discovered Exmilitary for myself only a few days ago, and having listened to Tyler the Creator, Playboi Carti, 100 Gecs, and many other artists it’s crazy to hear how this album inspired so much great music through the years
Death Grips interview on The Money Store’s 10 year anniversary confirrrrmed ;)
andy was interested in being interviewed on twitter, but i dont think fantano saw it :(
Someone PLEASE hit up fantano about this
@@turbopeace2752 you have a link to that?
@@turbopeace2752 Andy has Twitter? Link right now please!
@@turbopeace2752 if it is @a_2_b_2 then I don't see any tweet on there
Real cool of him to finally talk about this small little group, can't wait for them to get the good ole Fantano bump.
Wow, Anthony fantano likes death grips, this is crazy and unexpected!
I know right?
what are you talking about? he gave "The Money Store" a strong 0 and calling it one of the worst albums of the decade
@@Lucas-dy5mt facts
I was literally just listening to Takyon and thinking how relevant it sounds
It perfectly coveys the sound of today.
@@joshshrum2764 it's kinda wild to hear this today with the rise of emo trap/SoundCloud rap and think that song came out ten years ago, they were so ahead of their time
well they broke up once before and then came back with several releases thereafter and tours. so maybe they found a spark and were able to put the breakup on pause for a few years. we'll never really know what the whole initial breakup was about or why it happened, that much is certain. I do think it was an indication though, that the trio are not all that interested in remaining a cohesive unit and are very much about doing their own thing. I have said to many peers that the final track on year of the snitch was called "disappointed" for a reason however, and that track may have told us all we need to know about where the band is. still though, I cannot help but wonder if the pandemic really interfered with them like is has so many other bands. they are such a force when it comes to their live performances and stage presence. one cannot imagine a death grips release without an accompanying tour. so maybe, just maybe, covid got in the way of another release and they are waiting until they can tour again in order to release it. perhaps this is merely a hiatus. either way, as fans of this group we were completely and utterly spoiled with the consistent incredible releases, and we surely all took it for granted. how many bands have ever released the amount of ingenious material DG has in that time frame? surely every band has one or two stinkers but Death Grips mastered their niche and will eventually be remembered as one of the greatest bands of the last decade and perhaps, one of the greatest ever.
I love you
@@fzxfzxfzx ditto
Death Grips fans at the microwave be like: "damn that baseline kinda slaps dude"
I feel this strongly because it was Anthony that got me into Death Grips, and also Anthony that got me into new music actively again after a decade of me being disinterested and blah about music. Thank you Fantano.... sincerely. Here's to many decades of listening and reacting to new good shit. And of course thanks to Death Grips the most.
Anything that samples Jane's Addiction is a masterpiece.
@JillSandwich does it?
Beware, Guillotine and Takyon are some of the best experimental hip hop songs of all time
love the shift from culture shock to 5d
Can't believe I was introduced to this album and death grips as a whole through Cool Cat. Thanks YMS
Omg this was how I learned of death grips too lmao
You talking about this album like it’s your kid who graduated is about to make me cry. As much as it scares me that they could just call it quits and leave us with possibly the best batting average discography ever. I could really see them coming through with a straight noise and jazz rock piece to blow the pants off of us in like 5 years 😂
This made me emotional, as it reminds me how far I am from when I first heard this, in both good and bad ways. I got into ITAOTS at exactly the same time as DG so I was into the two biggest meme /mu/ bands
Wow love that fantano is finally talking about death grips! Hope he reviews the money store next
I released an EP on the same label as this, and it’s so crazy to see one of the artists on an avant garde net label become so huge.
link to ep?
Link/name? Also what's the label?
@@Lomaxxx53 probably deathbomb arc
@@sofianehamdini4391 surprisingly no-Grindcore karaoke.
yoooooo
Fantanthony, you got me into death grips via your exmilitary review when it came out 10 years ago. I was just a lil high school boy. Thank you for all the years of great music knowledge
Band of the decade.
Thru The Walls remains one of the best and most underrated Death Grips tracks.
IF YOURE DELUSIONAL YOUR CALL WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO THE MOTHERSHIP
airhorn
In my top five favs by DG, totally agree. So overlooked
I'm in my early 50s. I just started consuming DG about a year ago. If David Bowie thought a lot of them, I needed to give them a fair shake. I started with Money Store and have gone forward from there. I've heard stuff from Exmilitary along the way, but I did not go back and listen to the whole mix tape as a piece until a few weeks ago.
I think I might like it like I like Money Store. Really good. Mind isn't that young any more, still blown.
I'm 48, huge Bowie fan. I had read he was listening to DG around the time he was making Blackstar. So I just started listening to them. I will have to check out money store.
Deathgrips opened my eyes and ruined my entire life, I still have no one in my life that is close to me almost 10 years after finding them
Nice
I came across Death Grips after Spotify played Hacker while I was listening to Kero Kero Bonito. I found Hacker very interesting because I’ve never heard anything like it before. I’m so glad that it did play it because I looked up a review of the trio and thanks to Anthony Fantano I started listening to death grips because of your review and damn if death grips isn’t one of my fav musical artists I’ve ever come across. And I’ve still got more of their music to explore :)
lmao same but I've seen footage
This definitely the best mixtape released in 2011 by the Sacramento based experimental hip hop group called Death Grips.
If death grips is done. They need to do a final re pressing of all their projects. I’m not paying 300 for fashion week
We haven’t heard from them since the beginning of 2020. I really hope they didn’t break up...again.
Beware is a song i'll be listening to and thinking about forever
They need to put this album on spotify immediatey
I don’t really see the point of them dropping the album on Spotify 10 years after it’s release
@@Squeezy1738 so we can listen to it of course just cause it's old doesn't mean it shouldn't be on Spotify
it'll probably never happen
Klink is amazing song
AAA OOO AAA OOO
Black Flag samples just hit right
That last point you made is especially crazy about this album. They were prophetic about the Internet age to a stunning degree of accuracy
can’t wait for the 10th anniversary of the money store
can somebody buy me exmilitary on vinyl please pretty please please
Yeah bro I got you ;)
average doge coin investor
Happy to see you’re here, aztro. Love your stuff 💛
There's a pretty good bootleg that goes up on ear candy music every once in a while. It's usually priced at 40 to 60 bucks
I was looking for an aztrosist comment here
Cant believe its been 10 whole years since the beginning of the lusty and violent relationship between melon and MC Ride
Anthony’s listening to Takyon and gets reminded of his significant other lol
Reminds him of subatomic penetration
The end of this felt like Fantano saying goodbye to Death Grips for us and that makes me extremely sad.
Takyon truly changed how I looked at the rap and hip hop genre.
Thanks for making this video. Truly an amazing album. The last few days I’ve been kind of sad because I also feel like Death Grips is over, especially since the announcement of Zach Hill’s new group
Artists can definitely manage their time on multiple projects, Death Grips have done it before and they can definitely continue doing it into the future. We'll likely be waiting a while for any new content but with how incredibly talented the entire band are individually and as a group I have no doubt that whatever we get will be of excellent quality and full of absolute bangers
Exmilitary probably one of the albums to be released in the last 10 years
Yeah probably
kek
I can say that thanks to you my dear Melon, i get really into Death Grips, a big thank you !
i just cant believe this album is 10 years old, it was there for me in my edgy highschool era when i thought i was the shit listening to Cool Underground Music and it still speaks to me as a lame adult working IT jobs. i imagine my future children will look at this album the same way my dad would play pink floyd and say how its the best music ever. idk what im saying but fuck i love this band
Yep, my Dad would wax poetic about Pink Floyd, Santana, & Peter Frampton. Now that he's gone, & I'm getting deeper into classic rock, I wish I could geek out with him about it...
@@NatalieValentina6 That's pretty bittersweet, but maybe someday down the line you can share it with someone else and in some way keep his spirit alive through your mutual love of music :)
@@LatinaCreamQueen Thanks, that's a lovely sentiment, & I certainly hope it happens that way. It's always cool to be able to share your passions. That's what I enjoy most about YT as a platform, all of my interests have entire niche communities built around & catering to them.
Don’t ever have kids dude.
Why the hell would you want kids!? Lol
Still my favorite project of theirs, so raw, so cohesive, so boundary pushing to this fuckin DAY
This is gonna sound frickin crazy but whenever I touch a sandwich
10 years ago, the greatest band of the 2010s dropped the greatest mixtape of the 2010s
car seat headrest never dropped a mixtape
@@omerkucuk309 lmao
@@omerkucuk309 lol
You forgot Playboi Carti self titled
@@Cristian-cd2rc no I didn’t
It's good to hear "Anthony Fantano, Death Grips, forever" again
Death grips changed my life. The first song I listened to was "on gp" when I was just 15 and it changed my life forever, from the first listen it changed my outlook in music and I started to enjoy music in ways I never thought I would.
I remember hearing Ex-Military when /mu/ was shilling it before TMS was a sparkle in Zach's eye. I loved it so fucking much.
I remember the insane TMS hype. I was honestly disappointed when I first heard it, but I quickly fell in love after 3 or 4 listens.
I remember the NLDW fiasco with the label, and the hype surrounding it. Then the album art.... that's when I realized how genius and truly avant garde they were.
Again, was disappointed, but quickly fell in love. This is a trend that followed with EVERY LP of theirs, except Year of the Snitch.
The others get kinda tired, but Ex-Military still hasn't to me. There are a few tracks that are a bit of a lul, but the hits hit SO. FUCKING. HARD.
I know gushing about DG is a meme, but they are legitimately my favorite music outfit of all time. Their entire aura and image is so intriguing and interesting.
I can't pick a favorite LP. But Stockton is underrated you fucks.
Andy spammed it all over the internet. Proof that hardcore shilling works
Exmilitary will definitely become my best man once I get married.
Married to the money store?
*My wife's boyfriend, when they get married
@Rocco Bontemps 😳😳
I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing, what day of the week it was, what time of day it was, and the season. If an album can make you do that, it's as legendary as a pink Floyd album.
I remember first hearing this in a listenalong with /mu/. It was just a bunch of guys geeking out to shit we'd never heard before. Looking back I think it was a period where I was having the most fun I'd ever have on the internet
50 years from now every Death Grips project will still sound fresh and unique. They had an all time high quality catalog by the time they dropped Government Plates, and it's grown no less legendary since.
Year Of The Snitch will age extremely well. TPTB as well.
YOTS is my album of the decade that shit is so great.
Jenny Death is still their best album, all the others I've mostly grown out of
Best DG release.
Beware is unmatched
Their only 10/10 in my eyes, it's aging amazing
Facts, man. It's aged so incredibly, and every time I hear the Charles Manson intro, I get so excited.
i think bottomless pit is also a ten
notm and steroids are 10s for me too
It seriously did age like a fine wine
Best lyrics
Thanks for introducing me to Dead Grips, growing up in the 80's as a Rap fan and at the end of the 80's into Industrial Metal, this was like damn, just what i needed.
the confirmation bias i need rn
Yes it is melon, yes it is
Man I don't know what to comment but it's weird that my man Anthony hasn't changed confessed his love for Spotem'Gottem, the greatest up and coming new hit popular rap artist.
Can’t wait until 2030 when he puts out a video celebrating the 10 yr anniversary of Spotemgotem and Pooh Shiesty linking up
They ain’t done! 2023 tour
I just found this album a month ago and now it is life
Melon pls review my karen song before it becomes irrelevant
ex military defined my massive virgin era and i will forever be grateful for it and death grips
its over?
My opinion is that this album stands the test of time because Death Grips are artistic in everything they do. They are unashamedly themselves but they also put effort into their music. I feel like this ability to be mentally free to create what you truly want to (rather than what will sell) is admirable and each member brings something unique, stylistic, and artistic to the table.
Rides vocals are emotive, the lyrics are strange but poignant. It's like an insight into how someone's mind spins when they have a lot to think about going from one thing to another to another. It all makes sense but you need a little bit to unravel it. This is one of the few records that I remember lyrics randomly when walking around. So much reminds me of it, and this makes me think that the writing and the subject matter of the songs (however vague) are the raw thoughts and feelings that many of us can relate to from day to day.
Zach Hill is truly a creative genius. I don't think I need to say much more but these songs are some of the most creative arrangements, variety and quality of sounds and textures, phrases, articulations, use of technology, etc that I have ever heard. From a production point of view I'm in awe of the musicality and technical expertise and freedom. This record feels fresh because the production and ideas were fresh and cannot simply be copied. You can't copy raw talent. Death Grips tapped into something that if anybody else tried to copy them it would fall flat on its arse because it would lack any integrity, any character.
the samples on klink make me so happy... the black flag riff makes it sound so sweet. thanks for introducing me to this melon.
What you touch on at the end of this little video, the bands portrayal lyrically and sonically of a benign digital dystopia that we've sort of entered into since the band started releasing music, has been the reason I haven't returned to Death Grips recently. Its scary to listen back to these records, think about what Ride is rapping about and not feel the distance I once felt between my lived experience and Ride's (or his characters's) portrayal of life in techno-dystopia. Being a teenager when I first heard Death Grips to now a few years into my adult life, he veil has sort of been lifted for me and the music feels more relevant. That being said, Klink still goes hard as fuck.
I'm going to take a bike ride and listen to the death grips discography.
I started Death Grips. Glad Fantano is catching up.
Just started listening to death grips a month ago and it feels like this music could have been released yesterday
IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES
We get it bro you like Death Grips
my third favorite mixtape oat
Thank you, Anthony.
I just got into this album last month and it truly blew my mind. Cannot wait to gradually grow into the rest of their discog, ExMilitary feels so fresh and fantastic
Death grips is done, Alive grips is born!!!
It just sounds so fucking visceral. Was in lockdown for new years so best we could do was drink at home and put this record on loud, and I was just blown away by the fact some guys could make two little speaker membranes do THAT. After being familiar with the record for like 8 years too it still sounds fresh and vibrant, hits me in the gut every time.
honestly every album they make is next level and puts to shame anyone in there genre
Why am I crying jesus christ. So many drunken nights blasting DG. I absolutely can't wait for the next record!
Oh shit i'm feeling it
Are you killing it as well?
The raw energy that can only come from an artists first few works is more interesting to me than when they develop and refine their craft
on one hand, I'm sad this will never be on Spotify, but on the other I'm glad that hundreds of illegal samples were on this record
he come to me with money in his hand! He offered me, I didn't ask him
Ethan Alfonso I'M THE KING MAN! I RUN THE UNDERWORLD GUY!
It's on Spotify on people's custom lists
Every track is a hitter, I’m not that big a death grips fan but I can play this front to back
Zach Hill is now in a group called Undo K from hot.
I was 19 when this record came out, and Anthony's right: this record came out of seemingly nowhere and just started making waves. 2011 was a really strong, transitional year for hiphop (Goblin/ XXX/ Live. Love. A$AP), but this thing dropped and everything else suddenly looked quaint. By the time The Money Store came out, pretty much all of my mates at uni were hooked.