"Nothing is Safe" features a John Carpenter inspired rap beat and depicts an image of cops raiding a trap house. Diggs sketches the narrative from the perspective of the victims, full of lurid and visceral details and intricate wordplay. The windows are boarded and sealed, the product simmers on the stove, the bodies sleep fitfully in shifts. Then law enforcement arrives and the bullets start to fly.
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"Nothing is Safe" features a John Carpenter inspired rap beat and depicts an image of cops raiding a trap house. Diggs sketches the narrati… read more
"Nothing is Safe" features a John Carpenter inspired rap beat and depicts an image of cops raiding a trap house. Diggs sketches the narrative from the perspective of the victim… 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