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clipping. came out of Los Angeles with a sound nobody else in hip-hop was making: Daveed Diggs rapping with dizzying precision over the harsh noise and industrial textures built by producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes. Diggs was already known to some as the group's ferociously fast MC before Hamilton made him famous onstage, and the trio kept pushing further with each record, from the sci-fi concept album Splendor & Misery to the horror-steeped There Existed an Addiction to Blood.
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CLPPNG (2014). Their first studio album is the clearest way in: "Work Work" pairs Diggs' relentless flow with a beat that bangs and scrapes at once, and "Body & Blood" shows how menacing and controlled the group can be. "Story 2," a rap told through shifting perspectives, hints at the ambition they'd chase on later records.
Biography
Clipping (stylized as clipping.) is an American experimental hip-hop group from Los Angeles, California. The group consists of rapper Daveed Diggs and producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes.
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Studio albums
Discography
Official studio albums and EPs.
- 2025Dead Channel SkyAlbum
- 2020Visions of Bodies Being BurnedAlbum
- 2019There Existed an Addiction to BloodAlbum
- 2016Splendor & MiseryAlbum
- 2016WriggleEP
- 2014CLPPNGAlbum
- 2012FaceEP
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