Stream: Clipping, ‘Chapter 319’

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Clipping.

Clipping — the experimental rap trio of Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes — return today with a fresh song ripped straight from the headlines. Seething with anger, “Chapter 319” offers a blunt, razor-sharp takedown of racism, with a little electioneering thrown in.

The visceral track is the latest follow-up to Clipping’s acclaimed 2019 album “There Existed an Addiction to Blood” and last November’s “The Deep,” a menacing sci-fi tale about the underwater-dwelling descendants of African women thrown off slave ships, based on the mythology of Detroit electronic group Drexciya. The song originally was commissioned for a “This American Life” episode about Afrofuturism in 2017 and was featured as a sound installation at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. The song’s release coincided with the release of Rivers Solomon’s novella “The Deep” (Clipping were credited as co-authors).

“Chapter 319” is available on Bandcamp as a name-your-price download. Besides Bandcamp’s Juneteenth charitable effort today, the trio is donating its portion of sales among the GoFundMe for George Floyd’s daughter (the Official Gianna Floyd Fund), People’s Breakfast Oakland, The Okra Project and Afrorack. On all days thereafter, sales of these two tracks will be periodically collected and donated to organizations dedicated to racial justice.

||| Stream: “Chapter 319” and EP “The Deep”

||| Also: Watch the video for “All in Your Head”

||| Stream: “There Existed an Addiction to Blood”