”Say the Name”, released on August 26, 2020, is the lead single from clipping.’s 2020 album Visions of Bodies Being Burned, the second half of the horrorcore-homage diptych which began with 2019’s There Existed An Addiction to Blood. Like the songs of the preceding album, Say the Name views the elements and themes of 90s horror films and horrorcore through an “antiracist, antipatriarchal, anticolonial” lens, to “address the struggles of our current era.” This song refers to the urban legend of the Candyman, a hook-handed supernatural being who can be summoned by repeating his name i… read more
”Say the Name”, released on August 26, 2020, is the lead single from clipping.’s 2020 album Visions of Bodies Being Burned, the second half of the ho… read more
”Say the Name”, released on August 26, 2020, is the lead single from clipping.’s 2020 album Visions of Bodies Being Burned, the second half of the horrorcore-homage diptych which began w… read more
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 Diggs. Lyrically, 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… read more