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…
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