But I know what he really loves you for...

"You Might Think He Loves You For Your Money But I Know What He Really Loves You For It's Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat" Is one of the more disruptive and chaotic songs by Death Grips from their album Government Plates. I wouldn't say it's exactly possible to understand or explain Death Grips with a single blog post. There is a books worth of information to cover here. But here are some simple bits of info easy to digest that could give you a little insight on them: They are a experimental hip-hop group who centralize their songs around dark cryptic lyrics, the vocalist Mc Ride's style is super aggressive and sticks out like a sore thumb from other rappers, it is a multi-racial musical group, and people such Fred Armisen, Tom Morello, and David Bowie have shown admiration for this group.

Something that's very poetic about this song and every other song is that it reads different than it sounds. A lot of times when you listen to one of their songs you could mistake it for a screaming ramble. But until you read the lyrics you realize that there is a completely different story being told. Their songs language are consistently metaphorical and sometimes an allegory for a dark past or present of Mc Ride. He opens the song with a glass shattering and a long drawn out eerie frequency then we hear our first lyrics:

Get so f    n' dark in here
Come come f  k apart in here
I die in the process
You die in the process
Kettle drum roll hard sh t
F  k I said f   er don't start sh t

Here we hear Mc Ride inviting us to come apart with him at the seams, he repeats it through out the song for emphasis. And when you and him dying in the process he is talking about "la petite mort" or the "the little death" which is a sexual euphemism. Distancing oneself from God for the sake of base pleasures "to f   k apart" that is. Then the hook just ends with him containing himself from getting violent.

I hover above you
Life pulled out your mouth
I become you
Opening of the mouth
Unlawful possession
Jellyfish in cold sweat deep end
Hollow shell twitch disconnection
Pupils swell
My entrance
Hijacked no questions asked
Stretch you on like latex mask
My sigils your epitaph 

Definitely a lot going on here. He begins to paint us a picture of ghost-folklore-him possessing you whilst sleeping. Mc Ride could debatably be possessed during this verse as well, as in many interviews the groups speaks of this force that compels them to create. He then references the ancient Egyptian opening of the mouth ceremony which involved magically opening a mummy's mouth allowing it to speak. Then he talks about his unlawful possession as a common theme in Ride's work he talks about various experiences on certain substances. The drug of choice here most likely being LSD because of his pupils swelling and his disconnection from his shell. And only then do we come back to his entrance of possessing you as he wears you as a skin suit. The verse then ends with him explaining that his tattoos mean the end of your life.

This song and many others of Death Grips doesn't tell a consistent story or theme, it does nothing more than throw chaos your way. But is never nothing short of a deeper meaning. But all that makes sense since that they have said that Government Plates wasn't an official release but more of an expression of "where they are right now."