{"product_id":"clppng","title":"CLPPNG","description":"Audio Mixer: Steve Kaplan.\u003cbr\u003ePhotographer: Christopher Cichocki.\u003cbr\u003eInnovations in hip-hop have a long history of tending toward abrasive sounds, from the call-to-arms sirens of Bomb Squad's production on early Public Enemy albums to the pseudo-industrial squall of Kanye West's controversially caustic Yeezus album. L.A. trio clipping takes this fondness for harsh sounds to the next level with CLPPNG, a strange hybrid of noise frequencies, brutally dark beats, and MC Daveed Diggs' unhinged, often ugly lyrical flow. The group began as a recording project between producers Jonathan Snipes and William Hutson, reworking commercial hip-hop songs by laying a cappella vocal tracks over new beats of their own creation made up of punishing power electronics and other gruesome noise tones -- an unexpected juxtaposition, and one that runs through a wide range of lawless sounds on the 14 sinister tracks that make up CLPPNG. A minute-long introduction track sounds like little more than Diggs rapping over a beatless din of Merzbow-like feedback, which runs immediately into the horror-rap lyrics and distorted bass monotony of \"Body \u0026amp; Blood.\" Ex-Three 6 Mafia member Gangsta Boo shows up for a cameo verse on \"Tonight,\" a minimal, electro-tinged beat serving as a backdrop for Diggs' portrait of last-call desperation. ~ Fred Thomas","brand":"MovieMars","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48900456120607,"sku":"098787107128","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/7833\/0399\/files\/65f91741edcb8ca70570c26d73c29658_dd851b11-0b19-41e5-8be1-f016393a3362.jpg?v=1777800611","url":"https:\/\/www.moviemars.com\/products\/clppng","provider":"MovieMars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}