"Something Underneath" is clipping.’s take on N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth science-fantasy trilogy. The books follow the inhabitants of a supercontinent known as “the Stillness” which is faced with constant geological disasters. Every few hundred years a cataclysmic event known as a “Fifth Season” occurs and decimates the populous living on the continent. A reddit post on r/itsclippingbitch by user pdw1992 details the connections between the song and the novels. @clppng on Twitter follows Jemisin’s account and has been known to retweet her stuff. DD: “There’s a whole batch … read more
"Something Underneath" is clipping.’s take on N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth science-fantasy trilogy. The books follow the inhabitants of a su… read more
"Something Underneath" is clipping.’s take on N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth science-fantasy trilogy. The books follow the inhabitants of a supercontinent known as “the Stillness”… 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