CLPPNG is the first clipping. album released on Sub Pop. The title, the band’s name in all caps with the “I”s deleted, reflects the album’s intentional lack of first-person perspective in its lyrics—a stylistic choice that seems to challenge the first-person focus of much hip-hop music. In an interview with the New York Times, rapper Daveed Diggs also describes the lack of autobiographical narrative, reflected in the title, as allowing him to “bring in things from my life that I have seen and have been privy to that I don’t have to take ownership of participating in,” with Hutson ad… read more
CLPPNG is the first clipping. album released on Sub Pop. The title, the band’s name in all caps with the “I”s deleted, reflects the album’s intention… read more
CLPPNG is the first clipping. album released on Sub Pop. The title, the band’s name in all caps with the “I”s deleted, reflects the album’s intentional lack of first-person perspective i… read more
clipping. is a rap trio from Los Angeles formed in 2010 by William Hutson (Rale), film soundtrack composer Jonathan Snipes (ex-Captain Ahab) and vocalist Daveed Diggs. Lyrically, clipping.’s music attempts to reshuffle and repeat accepted rap scenarios, while eliminating a traditional single-point perspective. Diggs’s writing is heavily citational, like a rough-edged collage, gluing together half-glimpsed images and misremembered references, many of which might feel familiar, and some of which assuredly do not. But even while he consumes and regurgitates established styles, his self… read more