Louder Than Bombs: Death Grips and Killer Mike

June 23, 2012 – Hip-hop's first 20 years were built on decibels. A Bronx-bred arms race over speaker size, rocking without a band, "my JVC" vibrating the concrete, pumping up the volume, sampling "The Big Beat" and "Angel of Death" and Skull Snaps, and cars that go boom doing donuts on your manicured lawn while blasting the Aerosmith breaks stolen from the water-tower party. …
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