Clipping - CLPPNG [2xLP - Nightshade Red]

Things have changed for clipping. In the time since the above was written. The band found that listeners were more ready for them than they’d first imagined. Before 2013’s Midcity, the trio of rapper Daveed Diggs and producers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson did not expect to find an audience for their abrasive brand of rap music. But since the formation of clipping. and the release of their debut album, the field of commercial music enlarged ever so slightly, making room again for noisier, more adventurous elements in electronic production. Examples of this have been incremental, mere baby steps, so far. And despite clipping.’s insistence that they’re really just making rap— not noise-rap, industrial-rap, or any other mashup genre— their music might be more sonically challenging than that of the punkish rap rockers, lo-fi bedroom producers, and street goth hybridists they’ve been lumped with so far.

CLPPNG, the band’s label debut, was written and recorded between February and October of 2013. Although clipping.’s working methods were pretty much the same as they were for Midcity (only passing off the mixing and mastering to outside professionals) CLPPNG is a much more ambitious project. The album features guest verses from some of the band’s strongest influences, including Gangsta Boo (formerly of Three 6 Mafia, and currently of Da Mafia 6ix), Guce (longtime Bay Area mainstay, member of Bullys Wit Fullys), King T (all-around West Coast gangster rap legend, founder of the Likwit Crew, and mentor to Xzibit and Tha Alkaholiks). For the first single from the album, “Work Work”,  clipping. joined up with Cocc Pistol Cree, a newcomer from Compton best known for her appearance on DJ Mustard’s mixtape Ketchup, and her song ‘Lady Killa.’ 

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Tracklist

1. Body & Blood
2. Work Work
3. Summertime
4. Inside Out
5. Tonight
6. Dream
7. Get Up
8. Or Die
9. Taking Off
10. Story 2
11. Dominoes
12. Williams Mix
13. Run Out
14. Alka Seltzer
15. Harsh Loop 13
16. BaB Tron Loop
17. Summertime Sand H
18. DMNS Snares
19. Charcoal 02
20. BaB Rain Pipe
21. Story Scriabin
22. Harsh Loop 20
23. Dream Lagoon
24. DMNS Solw 01
25. Beer
26. Brian Drums
27. BT Jewel Case 01
28. CDP Traffic 03
29. CD Skip 2
30. Alanis Bowl 02
31. Alanis Bowl
32. CF Dishwasher
33. Chip Harsh 01
34. Dream Bird Loop
35. BaB Drill 02
36. BT Scratching 01
37. De Noise
38. BLS Bottoms
39. BaB Heels
40. Ends Skipping 01
41. DMNS Delay 02
42. BT Screws
43. Chip Harsh 02
44. Ends Metal
45. Deathpile
46. GGT Bible
47. Arp 03
48. DMNS Solw 02
49. Die
50. Wine Glasses
51. Dream Chimes
52. Drink & Ice
53. Chimes
54. Ends Stuttered Elizabeth Layered
55. IO Stutters
56. Harsh Loop 31
57. BaB Kick
58. Fireworks
59. Or Die 02
60. Get It Cabinets
61. Chip Harsh 03
62. Egg Beater
63. Orch
64. Get Up Noise
65. Dream Albion Night
66. Guce
67. Alarm
68. Guns Up Choir
69. Harsh Loop 15
70. IO Squeal
71. Jug
72. Dream Organ Fish
73. Killer Rod Lee
74. King T
75. Mic Handling
76. Get It Claps
77. Modular Blip
78. Modular Hats
79. Mp3 Kick
80. Summertime Squeal
81. Or Die 04
82. Get It Cinco
83. Story Rubber Kick
84. Arp 02
85. Story Stuttered Porn
86. Pendulum
87. Harsh Loop 10
88. TO Parking Lot
89. Rolling
90. Seeds 01
91. Shuffling Concrete
92. Space Echo
93. Or Die Clap
94. Spectrally
95. ST Kids
96. Story 1
97. Unknown Rubbing
98. Rapman
99. Get It Chain
100. Summertime Light Bulbs
101. Tonight Ooblek
102. Toothbrush
103. Story Modular
104. TO Sax 02
105. TO Snare Ramp
106. Or Die 03
107. Harsh Loop 04
108. CD Skip 3
109. Vibraslap
110. WW Cinder Block
111. Harsh Loop 01
112. The Message
113. Daveed - It's Clipping Bitch