clipping. Essentials

Before Daveed Diggs achieved fame as a lead actor in the Hamilton musical, the rapper linked with the production duo of William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes in 2013 to complete the experimental hip-hop group known as clipping. Industrial beats and terrorcore samples are the vessel for Diggs’ rapid-fire bars. His flow spills all over the gory canvas of the eerie “Body & Blood”, while he settles into a more straightforward hip-hop swell on the bouncy “Work Work”. Clipping. seem to hover at the convergence of hip-hop and horror-film soundtracks on these always-chilling, unearthly compositions.