CLPPNG

about this album

CLPPNG is the first clipping. album released on Sub Pop. The title, the band’s name in all caps with the “I”s deleted, reflects the album’s intentional lack of first-person perspective in its lyrics—a stylistic choice that seems to challenge the first-person focus of much hip-hop music. In an interview with the New York Times, rapper Daveed Diggs also describes the lack of autobiographical narrative, reflected in the title, as allowing him to “bring in things from my life that I have seen and have been privy to that I don’t have to take ownership of participating in,” with Hutson adding that “He’s not gonna rap as himself on something scary — you’d never believe Daveed is a stone-cold killer.” CLPPNG’s sound is more aligned with traditional rap than the group’s first mixtape, Midcity, but still draws heavily on noise and industrial techniques. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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