• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • HOME
  • NEWS+OPINIONS
    • NEWS TO US
    • COLUMNS
      • APPARENT HORIZON
      • DEAR READER
      • Close
    • LONGFORM FEATURES
    • OPINIONS
    • EDITORIAL
    • Close
  • ARTS+ENTERTAINMENT
    • FILM
    • MUSIC
    • COMEDY
    • PERFORMING ARTS
    • VISUAL ARTS
    • Close
  • DINING+DRINKING
    • EATS
    • SIPS
    • BOSTON BETTER BEER BUREAU
    • Close
  • LIFESTYLE
    • CANNABIS
      • TALKING JOINTS MEMO
      • Close
    • WELLNESS
    • GTFO
    • Close
  • STUFF TO DO
  • TICKETS
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT
    • MASTHEAD
    • ADVERTISE
    • Close

Dig Bos

The Dig - Greater Boston's Alternative News Source

CURIOUS ABOUT CLIPPING.? YOUR QUESTIONS, ASKED AND ANSWERED

Written by MARTIN CABALLERO Posted October 16, 2014 Filed Under: A+E

This summer, music writers everywhere tried their hand at deciphering what the hell LA-based crew clipping. (MC Daveed Diggs and producers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson) were doing on their album CLPPNG. Was it experimental noise rap? A scathing commentary on modern hip-hop? A Death Grips knock-off? They should have just asked.

No, they don’t hate rap

Jonathan: There’s a preconception amongst fans that we clearly must hate rap music, which is why we’re doing what we’re doing. Whereas, we think we’re just making rap music. We believe we are contributing to it, rather than acting against it or trying to fix it or change anything about it. Fans often want to bond with us over how much we hate mainstream rap music, which isn’t true at all.

Daveed: Right now, I’m totally obsessed with Kevin Gates. Also, Young Thug, I’m loving everything that’s coming out from him right now. Everything that he does is so much more abstract that anything we do, and the fact that we are kind of put in this avant-garde rap category and he is not is shocking. It speaks a lot to how open the genre is right now.

No, bookers don’t know what to do with them

Daveed: My favorite part of touring is seeing who we’re booked with. Getting to be on a rapper tour is cool, that’s never happened to us before. We’ve been on bills with rappers, hardcore bands, punk bands. I don’t think people really know where to put us. If there’s gonna be other aggressive music that night, then we get to play.

Yes, sounding that noisy and anarchic takes a lot of practice

Will: Most of our songs are very carefully laid out before we make any sounds, through conversations about what type of music we are referencing with it, what sounds we want to use. Finding that line of how far we want to take it really depends on what we thought we were doing conceptually with the track. Nothing is messy with us. We are really battling the assumption that just because it’s harsh, that it’s imprecise or it’s sloppy.

No, they didn’t bring the alarm clock that beeps through “Get Up” on tour

Will: One of the plans was to bring an alarm clock. But that particular one is Jonathan’s girlfriend, and she does have to get up and go to work, even while we’re out on tour.

CLIPPING W/ BUSDRIVER + BOOGIE BOY METAL MOUTH + IMMIGRANTS.CHURCH OF BOSTON, 69 KILMARNOCK ST., BOSTON. SUN 10.19 7PM/21+/$12. ITSCLIPPINGBITCH.COM

MARTIN CABALLERO
+ posts
    This author does not have any more posts.

Filed Under: A+E Tagged With: arts, arts and entertainment, Boston, Clipping, CLPPNG, Daveed Diggs, Dig Boston, DigBoston, Experimental, Get Up tour, hardcore bands, hip hop, LA, Mass, Music, music writers, music writing, punk bands, rap, rappers, songs

WHAT’S NEW

State Wire: Advocates Push For 'Tax Fairness' With Expanded Child Tax Credits

State Wire: Advocates Push For ‘Tax Fairness’ With Expanded Child Tax Credits

Mass Lawmakers Hear Testimony On Cannabis Testing, Medical Access

Mass Lawmakers Hear Testimony On Cannabis Testing, Medical Access

Massachusetts Bill, Victim Advocates Call For Coordinated Date-Rape Drug Response

Massachusetts Bill, Victim Advocates Call For Coordinated Date-Rape Drug Response

Report: Fewer Youth Transition Out Of Massachusetts Foster Care System

Report: Fewer Youth Transition Out Of Massachusetts Foster Care System

State Wire: Activists Urge Congress To Raise Debt Ceiling, Resist Spending Cuts

State Wire: Activists Urge Congress To Raise Debt Ceiling, Resist Spending Cuts

Dancing On Banana Peels: Life On Lifetime Parole In Massachusetts

Dancing On Banana Peels: Life On Lifetime Parole In Massachusetts

Primary Sidebar

LOCAL EVENTS

AAN Wire


Most Popular

  • AG Investigating BPD To Determine If “Gang Unit” Engages In “Unconstitutional Policing”
  • Over Yondr: Are Cell Phone Pouches At Shows Liberating, Dangerous, Or Annoying?
  • Deep Cuts Brings Sandwiches, Craft Beer, And Live Music To Medford
  • Daring Greatly: TikTok Star Alden McWayne (aka Gucci Pineapple) On Scheming And Dreaming
  • Dead As Ever: Meet The Rising Dark Star Of Boston’s Jam Band Scene

Footer

Social Buttons

DigBoston facebook DigBoston Twitter DigBoston Instagram

Masthead

About

Advertise

Customer Service

About Us

DigBoston is a one-stop nexus for everything worth doing or knowing in the Boston area. It's an alt-weekly, it's a website, it's an email blast, it's a twitter account, it's that cool party that you were at last night ... hey, you're reading it, so it's gotta be good. For advertising inquiries: sales@digboston.com To reach editorial (and for inquiries about internship opportunities): editorial@digboston.com