Clipping's Rap Influences Mix

Clipping are known for creating off-kilter and experimental hip-hop. Here the L.A.-based trio compile the acts that influence them. "Rap music's golden age existed between the mid-'90s and mid-'00s," they explain. "It's something most conservative hip-hop heads would find wholly disagreeable, but here are a handful of our gangster classics, some better known than others."