clipping is a rap trio from Los Angeles formed in 2010 by William Hutson (Rale), film soundtrack composer Jonathan Snipes (ex-Captain Ahab) and vocalist Daveed DiggsLyrically, clipping’s music attempts to reshuffle and repeat accepted rap scenarios, while eliminating a traditional single-point perspective Diggs’s writing is heavily citational, like a rough-edged collage, gluing together half-glimpsed images and misremembered references, many of which might feel familiar, and some of which assuredly do not But even while he consumes and regurgitates established styles, his self-erasure is incomplete; Diggs’s dense, often motormouthed flow remains wholly his ownIndividually, the members are known outside of the group for their extra-curricular artistic projects Diggs is a stage actor, while Snipes composes music for film, and Hutson is an established noise music artist Snipes and Hutson have collaborated on many projects, including the score to the documentary Room 237, which was released by IFC in 2013In February 2013, clipping
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