{"id":18099,"date":"2025-03-14T08:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T07:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/daveed-diggs-sci-fi-rap-trio-clipping-we-are-at-war-all-the-time-its-one-of-the-great-tricks-of-capitalism\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T08:37:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T07:37:23","slug":"daveed-diggs-sci-fi-rap-trio-clipping-we-are-at-war-all-the-time-its-one-of-the-great-tricks-of-capitalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/14\/daveed-diggs-sci-fi-rap-trio-clipping-we-are-at-war-all-the-time-its-one-of-the-great-tricks-of-capitalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Daveed Diggs\u2019 sci-fi rap trio Clipping: \u2018We are at war all the time. It\u2019s one of the great tricks of capitalism\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diggs\u2019 harrowing music is a world away from his Hollywood films and a Tony-winning run in Hamilton. But his band\u2019s world-building \u2013 setting resource wars in imagined cyberpunk clubs \u2013 is no less dramatic<\/p>\n

As a child, Daveed Diggs<\/a> and his schoolfriend William Hutson<\/a> drew pictures inspired by the space-age album covers of funk legends Parliament, filled with gleaming UFOs and eccentric interplanetary travellers. Diggs would grow up to become an actor, winning a Tony award as the first person to play the roles of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton<\/a>. He\u2019s since voiced Sebastian the crab in The Little Mermaid\u2019s live-action remake and appeared in Nickel Boys<\/a>, which was nominated twice at this year\u2019s Oscars. But away from Hollywood and Broadway, he\u2019s still dreaming up fantastical sci-fi worlds with Hutson \u2013 now through one of the most imaginative, harrowing projects in underground rap.<\/p>\n

Along with Hutson\u2019s college roommate Jonathan Snipes \u2013 who had a similar childhood experience, inspired by the otherworldly paintings adorning classical albums \u2013 the friends formed Clipping<\/a> in Los Angeles in 2010. Over Hutson and Snipes\u2019s production, Diggs weaves blood-soaked horror stories about racial violence or fables of enslaved people in outer space. On their new album Dead Channel Sky, he raps with mechanical precision over warped rave music, creating a noirish cyberpunk world of hackers, clubgoers, future-soldiers and digital avatars.<\/p>\n

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\nDiggs\u2019 harrowing music is a world away from his Hollywood films and a Tony-winning run in Hamilton. But his band\u2019s world-building \u2013 setting resource wars in imagined cyberpunk clubs \u2013 is no less dramatic
\nAs a child, Daveed Diggs and his schoolfriend William Hutson drew pictures inspired by the space-age album covers of funk legends Parliament, filled with gleaming UFOs and eccentric interplanetary travellers. Diggs would grow up to become an actor, winning a Tony award as the first person to play the roles of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton. He\u2019s since voiced Sebastian the crab in The Little Mermaid\u2019s live-action remake and appeared in Nickel Boys, which was nominated twice at this year\u2019s Oscars. But away from Hollywood and Broadway, he\u2019s still dreaming up fantastical sci-fi worlds with Hutson \u2013 now through one of the most imaginative, harrowing projects in underground rap.
\nAlong with Hutson\u2019s college roommate Jonathan Snipes \u2013 who had a similar childhood experience, inspired by the otherworldly paintings adorning classical albums \u2013 the friends formed Clipping in Los Angeles in 2010. Over Hutson and Snipes\u2019s production, Diggs weaves blood-soaked horror stories about racial violence or fables of enslaved people in outer space. On their new album Dead Channel Sky, he raps with mechanical precision over warped rave music, creating a noirish cyberpunk world of hackers, clubgoers, future-soldiers and digital avatars. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Diggs\u2019 harrowing music is a world away from his Hollywood films and a Tony-winning run in Hamilton. But his band\u2019s world-building \u2013 setting resource wars in imagined cyberpunk clubs \u2013 is no less dramatic As a child, Daveed Diggs and his schoolfriend William Hutson drew pictures inspired by the space-age album covers of funk legends …<\/p>\n

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