u/IlBurro

now that it's just listed right on their website as "Death Grips EP" and the cover art file is titled deathgrips-ep.jpg. For like a decade or more there was this core group of pedants on this subreddit who would race to correct you if you called it the "Death Grips EP" with "ermm, actually, it was never OFFICIALLY called that it was just released as a zip file yada yada yada" when it's pretty clear in retrospect it was always meant to be a self-titled release. Just 'aving a larf.

I'm currently researching this for a longer post for /r/veryshallowlistening and correct me if I'm wrong but Death Grips have never once officially referred to Stefan Burnett as "MC Ride." He was called "Ride" in early interviews and promotional material during their more underground era but has largely been referred to as "Stefan" in official material, liner notes etc ever since they released the Money Store.

Again, correct me if I'm wrong but the "MC" aspect of MC Ride is a complete fan fabrication, not an official stage name, and this has been propagated by blogs and music outlets all the way up to the Wikipedia page simply because the band has never bothered to make any statement officially correcting it. Just pointing out this odd phenomenon.