Clipping is at the Replay Lounge this Thursday

Los Angeles’ Clipping — MC Daveed Diggs and producers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson — seems content under the rap umbrella. Or, at least, it doesn’t really make a big deal of genres. That’s fine, but the group’s latest full-length, July’s Clppng, is not an album that can be easily labeled and filed away.

Clppng employs exploratory rhythms, explosive noise clusters, and production that veers just left enough to be considered experimental — though, at first listen, some songs on Clppng boast radio-friendly hooks at the fore. It’s a clever scheme to get you to listen harder, which can be a complicated payoff — Diggs’ anti-autobiographical lyrics tend to eschew standard storytelling. Clipping is a rap group that wants to break all the rules of the rap game, even as it stands a chance of winning it.

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