News - Death Grips Cancels Chicago Shows (UPDATE)

This whole thing just keeps getting weirder and weirder. After Death Grips unexpectedly bailed on a Lollapalooza After-Party Show this Friday, they angered a lot of people. And I mean pissed them off. Well, now they've dropped from the Lollapalooza line-up, and forced Shaun White's band, Bad Things to headline in their place. This all happens after Death Grips received a suicide note from an anonymous fan. The note reads:

SUBJECT: ready DATE: July 9

I am ready to take my own life. Many bad experiences led me to this dark void that I am locked in. Maybe by my own hands? I don't really care anymore. I just wanted to say thank you for showing me the other side. the side that is locked away deep inside a person. I am mad. Mad all the time and depressed all the time. I can't take it. I'm not afraid of dying but i am afraid that I can't hear DG in the after life if there is such a thing. I don't know, but I hope your music transcends to the unknown. A place where DG's essence exists. A place where art exists. I love art. That's the one thing that kept me alive? this long. So just to ease minds, DG didn't "influence" me to do this. this is my own fucking choice. but thanks for making my life a little better. you're my absolute fave and I will fight the gods if they don't allow me to follow DG's efforts can't see Earth. Anyways, continue doing great things. I love you Stefan, Zach, and Andy.

I will be watching.

-AJJ

The suicide note was also printed on a giant banner and hung from the stage at the Bottom Lounge show on Friday. Personally, I am confused and lost by this whole thing. But, I also feel this is what Death Grips wants, and there's something behind it. After announcing their drop from these shows, it was also announced they dropped their date at Osheaga Fest in Quebec. Is this the new way of telling the world you aren't a band anymore? Art, man.