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
WTCH HR

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

(obv I was all about them/Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy back in the day)

Dalek is a great call, though I haven't really kept up with the more recent albums. The run of From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots through Abandoned Language is phenomenal though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00NVXqc_zOk

I've probably said this before, but Beatnigs to this is one of the wildest career arcs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqgHosrqJ8o

I can remember the exact face I made when I realized who "Say Hey" was by

raise the double standard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnQTFBpcBp0

not sure if all this is exactly right but i love all this stuff:

Armand Hammer is fucking amazing and also Elucid solo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9qV_h0Q3YM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8_dJ-eVFPw

Billy Woods & Kenny Segal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83F4JpVu61k

The Koreatown Oddity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65SbCnAMDgo

Kill the Vultures (great underrated group from Mpls)

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

Jeremy Nutzman (has performed as Spyder Baybie Raw Dog, Pony Bwoy and now Velvet Negroni - VN is more in the Frank Ocean vibe now than what he was doing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnc8K_6N-SM&t=40s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYX4nVXDOx0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz_WF2OUNd8

oops broken link on spyder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqPUEKE9l58

I don't know why I avoided Dälek and Cannibal Ox for so many years

:)

Stuck deciding whether From Filthy Tongue... or The Cold Vein is better eh

Cold Vein is so sick, I'm not in the mood for it all that often but it sure scratches a very specific itch

Another vote for Cold Vein, it's crazy good.

The Cold Vein is all-time, as is Funcrusher Plus, which doesn't get name-checked as often as it should imo. Dälek also rules, of course.

Anyway, this may be relevant to your interests, DJP:

yo is it true vordul got sonned by a wite kid after a aol beef??????

I would actually vote From Filthy Tongue in that poll, it is completely mindblowing imo and it has probably the best pair of closing tracks I can think of

imago otm, I love Cold Vein but From Filthy Tongue has held up even better over the years imo

lol pomentitul beat me to it

DJP is all over that thread already lol, but always worth a read

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