Clipping - Midcity (noise rap)

http://clppng.bandcamp.com/album/midcity

This is pretty awesome stuff. Clipping are a noise-rap trio from LA composed of rapper Daveed Diggs, along with William Hutson (Rale), and Jonathon Snipes (Captain Ahab).

I guess Death Grips or B L A C K I E are the inevitable comparisons, but Clipping don't really sound remotely like either. They're a lot less aggro and more restrained, for one, and Daveed Diggs is a fast-rapping hedonist rather than a sloganeering punk bellower. The noise bits are often used to break up Diggs' verses more than to provide a full-on assault.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQRfHFgz6cM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5RVbch7rEg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igHJ7lr-uK0

And they have a hilarious name.

and I have to work the late shift the night they are playing in town :/

I only found out about them cause someone was talking about seeing their show here a couple days ago

they're worth checking out

sub pop

that makes sense

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIAQv_8qkqE

Damn, I had missed this thread earlier. Yeah, great stuff, was tipped off to this earlier in the year by Brian Miller and the Foot Village bunch.

ooooh. This is great!

Yeah this album is fantastic

damn how did I miss this

Right? I wd recommend this to almost anyone on ILM

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i do like this yes

I love that tune ^^^ and on a superficial level the vid reminds me of New Kingdom, definitely need to get this album. I don't generally like noise rap type stuff but this dude has got style.

Yeah I think one thing I like about clipping is that unlike a lot of noise-rap, they don't reject rap's more stylized elements

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Yeah I think one thing I like about clipping is that unlike a lot of noise-rap, they don't reject rap's more stylized elements

― suggest bando (The Reverend), Wednesday, July 31, 2013 7:44 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, and i love how the noise and the rapping kind of feed off one another. good as hell.

this is catchy

also noisyish

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'give'?

saw these guys tonight -- totally killed it.

I think the Clipping album is very exciting in the way that they have unleashed a very raw debut without some top notch producer making it sound like everything else and it gives me that that good old fashioned feeling, that I ain't got a clue what their next one will sound like.

i got bored with these guys pretty fast except for the outro

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I want to like this but I can't get with the lyrics

They're almost aggressively stupid. I guess that's the point. Fuck off though.

Decent noise mind

Coming round a bit now. I guess the lyrical content is 'noise' too. MC Ride does that shit with more poetry and Odd Future with more mischief. Can foresee them all being polled off at some stage. Obviously Dälek kill them all

get.it is superb actually

apart from the fact he's aggressively subjugating women in the lyric

I'm actually a lot happier with noise dudes graduating to doing rap like this than chillwave soundscapes, which seemed to be the trend 5-6 years ago

http://www.wearenames.com/

these guys opened up for Clipping when I saw them

coming around to the lyrics a bit. think there are satirical elements. definitely trying to make us uncomfortable while also kinda thrilled at the ride

definitely satirical elements -- what's the song that is just insanely fast?

currently on guns.up which might be the best track yet

losing interest

regaining interest

mobb2it was a whopping great momentum-killer but the songs after it have been gr8

can't work this shit out

the outro :DDDD

gangsta steve reich

yeah sorry for that v precious reaction there, this is utterly amazing & perfect for 5am

Sub Pop has begun presale for CLPPNG, the second full length album from clipping.
Available on cd. 2xlp. digital.
Presale orders of the vinyl get a bonus 7" with "Ends" (feat. Brian Kinsman of True Neutral Crew / ex-Foot Village) and non-album track "Brian" (feat. Brian Chippendale of Lightning Bolt/Black Pus) on the bside.
ORDR HR
ORDR WTH TSHRT

Lyrics video released for the track "Work Work (feat. Cocc Pistol Cree)" from CLPPNG
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Full CLPPNG tracklisting:
CD / DL Tracklisting:
1. Intro
2. Body & Blood
3. Work Work (Feat. Cocc Pistol Cree)
4. Summertime (Feat. King T)
5. Taking Off
6. Tonight (Feat. Gangsta Boo)
7. Dream
8. Get Up (Feat. Mariel Jacoda)
9. Or Die (Feat. Guce)
10. Inside Out
11. Story 2
12. Dominoes
13. Ends
14. Williams Mix (Feat. Tom Erbe)

LP Tracklisting:
1. Body & Blood
2. Work Work (Feat. Cocc Pistol Cree)
3. Summertime (Feat. King T)
4. Inside Out
5. Tonight (Feat. Gangsta Boo)
6. Dream
7. Get Up (Feat. Mariel Jacoda)
8. Or Die (Feat. Guce)
9. Taking Off
10. Story 2
11. Dominoes
12. Williams Mix (Feat. Tom Erbe)
[Plus a 100 locked grooves on side 4]

Upcoming tour dates:
Mar. 12 - Austin, TX - SXSW / Hotel Vegas (Volstead Inside) / Inland Empire Touring Day Party (3:30pm)
Mar. 14 - Austin, TX - SXSW / The Owl of Austin / PORTALS Day party (2pm)
Mar. 15 - Austin, TX - SXSW / 512 (Downstairs) / Official SXSW Showcase (10:15pm)
Mar. 18 - Scottsdale, AZ - The Western
Mar. 22 - Los Angeles, CA - The Church on York
Apr. 26 - Leizpig, DE - Conne Island
Apr. 27 - Cologne, DE - Baustelle Kalk
Apr. 29 - Nurnberg, DE - K4
Apr. 30 - Krems an der Donau, AT - Donaufestival
May 16 - Flushing, NY - Knockdown Center (Red Bull Academy Extreme Music Mini Fest)
Jun. 13 - Barcelona, ES - Sonar
Jul. 04 - George, WA - Sasquatch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WBYzu1_OqM&feature=youtu.be

cool

King T!

whoa nice! intriguing softer sound, interpolating pop-rap tropes while keeping it decidedly recondite & modernist

CLIPPING has become my favourite rap group, probably. above even Dalek these days (well, they're on hiatus really)

Ha, was just about to post all this, thanks Rev.

that sounds much better than the earlier album

also I still h8 lyric videos but that lyric video is cool

what didn't you like about the earlier album? one of my favourite rap albums of...all time, really - completely stunning to me

I saw that the new record was #2 on the Rate Your Music so I checked it out. Liked it but didn't love it.

Now I read the effusive praise and comparisons to artists I adore above and I will have to listen again and see what I missed.

It's not 'experimental' enough imo, too much dead air throughout.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbxyZAduGvY

visions of puppies being bought

New live album BTW

https://clppng.bandcamp.com/album/double-live

Ha, was just coming here to see if 'Puppy for Hanukkah' had been posted.

I kind of want a Clipping remix of "Puppy for Hanukkah"

I'm just now listening to the live album they released in July and it's a fantastic piece of ambient art

https://clppng.bandcamp.com/album/double-live

July June

y'all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPKTwSbxvHM

Holy shit, I just put that on to check and ended up watching the entire performance

Enlacing is just unreal isn't it

I mean it's all unreal and that was a truly special performance

Great interview too

Quick note this is happening tomorrow -- or today, depending on where you're at.

January 27, 2021, 8pm PST:

CLIPPING LIVE FOR NO AUDIENCE DURING A GLOBAL PANDEMIChttps://t.co/GXOn2yimWe pic.twitter.com/tgqdJLI6o8

— clipping. (@clppng) January 22, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2MCATB75C8

I'm only 3 songs in and this is fucking WOAH

well if it's anything like their performance last month linked above

(by you, lol)

omg that setlist okay I'd better reserve some time for this

it's not even the complete set list

every band's setlist should end with 'a better place'

The performance of "Blood of the Fang" in this video convinces me that Diggs has three lungs

ok the Body & Blood is astonishing

oh my god the launch into "Get Up/Nothing Is Safe"......man I love these fucking nerds

It’s just brilliant

yeah I watched it all yesterday, they're so good and have turned segues into a new sort of artform or something, also the idea behind how they did Enlacing is one of the best ideas I've ever seen a band have

I watched again this morning instead of having coffee

There Existed.... hits different in a pandemic lol

The vocal sample on Enlacing always reminds me of something when I hear it, but I can't put my finger on what.

clipping take the idea of the tiny desk concert literally

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn6S9NTpPvk

love the music box mix of "shooter" and the disco mix of "nothing is safe"

lmao they are such kings

I think "Enlacing" is my favorite clipping song, I can't not smile every time I hear Daveed crack up at "pick up the cues like a human, see what you need, fuck are you doing?"

it is a monster aye

new backxwash features some classic clipping production obv, she needs a thread?

I'm listening now, definitely in the clipping sonic wheelhouse. "terror packets" is especially awesome

Ned woke me up this morning by sending me a link to this via Messenger:

https://clppng.bandcamp.com/track/run-it-1

Its great

Clipping fans don't forget to download my new app featuring 23 mimnutes of sounds from the interior of the Splendor and Misery ship, bye

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fuzzzel-artisanal-white-noise/id6596783978

Oh that is very cool

yes, and love the new song!

I don't know if it's clppng canon or not, but the Room 237 OST (2013) always draws me in when it comes on shuffle.

weirdly just found out i know the guy who directed that vid

And we have word on the full new album.

https://clppng.bandcamp.com/album/dead-channel-sky

This is gonna own

Another fuckin masterpiece

I am currently on “Dominator” and am confident that this is the best album I will hear all year

yeah, wow, thanks for the heads up, this sounds great. I lost track of them for a while when it seemed like they were mired in a sci-fi concept album headspace, but this one just goes straight for the jugular. funny that one track has Nels Cline on it and that pfork actually singled out a new Nels Cline as one of their "new albums you have to hear" choices and yet ignored this one entirely.

Clipping aren't authentic you see, they're theater kid rap

This weirdly feels like a kind of sequel to Splendor & Misery except with the whole planet as the spaceship. It's an insanely great spirit-of-the-age distillation and I think it's up their with their very best

xpost yeah I admit as an old I haven't kept up with the new shit like LazerYeatBasedFaceCobain

This is great!

Sadlol though at the line in "Keep Pushing" about Gitmo being forgotten. Guessing they didn't expect that to be rendered obsolete in the window between recording and release.

Yes, this is really good (as usual). I particularly like the song with Aesop Rock, and the bouncing track that kind of sounds like a Lyrics Born song.