{"product_id":"clipping-clppng-2lp","title":"clipping. - CLPPNG [2LP]","description":"\u003cp\u003eNoise, found sound and pure nerve power CLPPNG, the record where clipping. bent hip-hop into strange new shapes, spread here across two LPs with a digital download card included.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Los Angeles trio of rapper Daveed Diggs and producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes made their Sub Pop debut with this album in 2014, a year before Diggs became a Broadway name in Hamilton. Their approach was simple and slightly mad: take the structures of mainstream rap seriously, then rebuild the beats from harsh electronics, field recordings and avant-garde experiments.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Work Work\", featuring Cocc Pistol Cree, is as close to a club track as they get, while \"Tonight\" brings in Memphis legend Gangsta Boo and twists a party song into something uneasy. \"Story 2\" shows off Diggs' breathless, cinematic storytelling, and \"Williams Mix\" tips its hat to John Cage's tape-collage piece of the same name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiggs raps with machine-gun precision and a novelist's eye for detail, and the production treats every sound as a possible rhythm, from clattering static to the sudden silence between bars. It is confrontational, but there is a sly sense of humor running underneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbrasive and oddly catchy in equal measure, CLPPNG is proof that experimental rap can still hit like a body blow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57307760361777,"sku":"098787107111","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/clipping.-CLPPNG_2LP.jpg?v=1793813800","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/clipping-clppng-2lp","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}