clipping. - The Deep

[@mindibriar]

I just started reading the novella by Rivers Solomon, had to look up the music that inspired it, and WHOA this song utterly blew me away. AMAZING.

[@thecosmicblueautie]

"This American Life producer, Neil Drumming, has recently become fascinated with Afrofuturism. It's more than sci-fi. It’s a way of looking at black culture that’s fantastic, creative, and oddly hopeful-which feels especially urgent during a time without a lot of optimism." AFROFUTURISM FOREVER! :-)

[@Portablerootbeerfloat]

Man Daveed needs more recognition for his rapping. Like seriously.

[@jarryj1995]

If the Next Album sound anything like this, I'm Fucking Sold. #itsClippingBitch

[@ilovecody7514]

What big fish theory should've been more of. I mean it was a good album, but this song just blows anything Vince did out of the water.

[@fisheatsyourhead]

yeah big fish theory just wasn't anything too exiting and when he experimented with the beats it just felt really off. Clipping can make songs from water noises and alarm clocks though so i don't think you can compare vince to them.

[@nexa6280]

I don't agree at all you guys. I think the beats that are a bit more experimental on Big Fish Theory are really nice, but there are some tracks that don't really suit his rapping. Big Fish Theory would have been awful if it had Clipping influences as strong as this, because the producers Vince work with have wouldn't be able to do that sound justice. Crabs In A Bucket and Yeah Right have some really nice production on them in my opinion. Hard to compare to people like Clipping who are far, far more experimental.

[@jarryj1995]

+Tha Swami I for one like Big Fish theory but I can understand if others don't because it sounds like a 40 Min Banger Album. P.S I don't know if you meant it or not but you made a joke. lol

[@GoatgutsRecords]

Tha Swami Wheres the fucking sound correlation between clipping.: the experimental hip hop noise outfit and Vince Staples: The Trip-Hop rapper?

[@TheParadox1010]

could this be the different sections of the ocean? 0:26 : Hadal zone 1:46 : abyssal zone 2:59 : twilight zone 3:55 : daylight zone

[@RaLunara]

I swear this track, Is part of the real remembrance. I swear clipping taps in to ancient history.. Has anyone read the book? Under the same name but by the author River Solomon. It is a must read!

[@baby_domdom_watchin]

im listening with this with my friend and when it got to 3:55 they started shouting *"DON'T HURT EM, DAVEED!!!"* i love them so much

[@jarryj1995]

😂😂😂

[@K_hessel]

Every time I listen to this song, I look for this comment.

[@rustyorphans9302]

First the streets, then the abyss of space, and now the underwater mysteries of the deep... Fuck yes

[@bree5241]

The narrative of this song is executed so well, especially with the transition of the instruments throughout the song as the tempo increases, the introduction of a more complex beat works so, so well with this. amazing job

[@BeeG758]

Oh. My. Gosh. I LOVE THIS SONG! They played it on the radio, and now I cant stop listening.

[@imeanokaysureman]

I know this is for a This American Life episode, but I really hope this is part of a new album. I adore Splendor & Misery, and another, more fleshed out album in that conceptual vein would be amazing.

[@Ruby-mz7lb]

Baron Bacon V, phd I hope they do come through with a concept album based on this song or theme. I'm feeling great things and energy, story telling poetry at it's best. clipping.🔥

[@Ruby-mz7lb]

kyoto graphic Thanks for the information I wasn't really aware. I'm excited to hear their upcoming music. 🙌🏼

[@Ruby-mz7lb]

kyoto graphic For real, when you think they can't get any better, they drop a good af track or album that's even better somehow.

[@Bedhead142]

Little did you know how right you’d be

[@DrBlowfins]

Good to see that Drexciya gets some attention outside of the electro scene. To me the whole Drexciya catalogue including all sideprojects/aliases is the best music ever made.

[@acjohnson55]

The world needs this to be a full concept album.

[@JT-nk3sh]

They're making a book about it

[@Jack-cu5il]

EP coming soon!

[@SimonXR]

@@Jack-cu5il Wow, had to look this up. Beyond thrilled!

[@milosglogovac4314]

your wish has been fulfilled

[@XerxesTexasToast]

It's inspired by and set in the same world as the music of Drexciya!

[@MrReallyawesome123]

MERMAID👏🏼CONCEPT👏🏼ALBUM

[@makkein]

THE EP COVER IS LEGIT I LIKE THE CMYK TOUCH AND REGISTRATION MARKS

[@spanishnameisjesus]

This song is so unnerving. It's the combination of repetition and the ambient sounds. I've read a lot of Lovecraft, but this was the first "Invasion from the deep" that's creeped me out while being so beautiful and haunting.

[@imagerivals8310]

man i was in bed when i decided to click on fantanos weekly track roundup and then i saw a new clipping song and my ass jumped right up to listen to this shit and i have no regrets

[@shamsa1881]

I feel like I just watched a movie with my third eye

[@0lfo]

Agreed! This song is brilliant. I would love to see the creators of Into the Spider-verse make something based on it.

[@shamsa1881]

Rhett Barton into the spiderverse? Now that’s a great idea! I, too, would love to see that 🙌

[@xxxjackson1489]

Did...did you mean your imagination?

[@marialimon4138]

Shamsa, that is the best description!

[@shamsa1881]

Maria Limon thanks! 😆

[@gabbyw7079]

First two minutes i was apprehensive, but when the beat dropped at 3:00 i was really feelin it. i can't even put this into words..

[@bombshellblonde544]

Gabby W and then it's over too soon

[@TheManofThings777]

OMG I need this new clipping like schools need teachers bruh

[@vklocko4752]

this

[@kaedatiger]

More relevant now than ever

[@shrimpy420]

This song kicks fuckin ass. I love the dark and ambient sounds of the ocean, the transitions between each phase of the song give me goosebumps, every new section of the song builds on top of the previous part without adding too much cluster to the mix, and to top all that off, Daveed is rapping about mermaids, and making a compelling story with such a strange subject matter. One of the best rap songs I've ever heard.

[@yourmother2836]

No.

[@typon1]

This is like a siren song, mesmerizing

[@MechaNinja479]

I'm late as hell to the whole clipping thing but this man's really out here making Lovecraft references

[@hypermagical_ultraomnipotence]

The one that blew my mind, and solidified me as an absolute fan, was Air'em Out. I didn't get most of the references in it, but when I listened to it, I was like, "Wait wait wait, what, let me make sure, did he say what I think he said, all the way to the Kefahuchi Tract? Holy shit, he did. Dude's dropping M. John Harrison references. Most of the times I start dropping references to M. John Harrison's Viriconium and the Kefahuchi Trilogy even to sci-fi fans ain't no one knows who the fuck I'm talking about, and this motherfucker's dropping references in a rap song. I think I found my favorite new thing ever!" And, well, clipping.'s not my favorite new thing ever nowadays. But are definitely in my favorite things. They're just no longer "new" to me :D

[@lannadelarosa]

It was so fun watching the sign language interpreter do this song at the Hugo Awards. When Daveed went off, she went off.

[@ThatOneWeirdGal]

No song in the history of songs has given me this clear of images in my head. It's like a movie in my mind. So good! So deep!

[@olliefischer]

i don't believe in an afterlife. but sometimes, i like to pretend that i do, just to imagine situations like this: imagine H.P. Lovecraft--who, even for his time period, was _appallingly_ racist--looking down at us from the afterlife...and hearing this song... this song, written by a Black man, explicitly using horror and science fiction elements to explore Afrofuturist concepts... and casually name-dropping one of Lovecraft's characters, Dagon, the Great Old One, at 3:19 ... imagine how _absolutely livid_ Lovecraft would be. :D

[@labelle9921]

I am supremely pleased by this imagining.

[@ganbaroteam6547]

I too like imagining this. Midway thru bram stokers love book to an actor i find him gushing over henry morton stanley ( he “explored” the “dark continent”) Suddenly bram stoker is anchored solidly as a white dude in his time by such statements as “Then he told of the wonder of the savages; their reverence; their complete submission!” Supernatural. Racist. I would love Bram to be here now. Maybe he could’ve loved his man openly as well.

[@nowhereman6019]

So many of Lovecraft's stories can be easily reinterpreted in a positive and progressive way if you just look at them from a non xenophobic, racist, white supremacist viewpoint. The Shadow Over Innsmouth is about a town reconnecting with humanities underwater cousins. The Dunwich Horror is about a single mother and her father having been blessed by a God struggling to take care of their half-cosmic children. The Horror at Red Hook is about a rich white man taking advantage of lower class immigrants who have been persecuted by the police and using them for his horrible occult rituals.

[@geordiejones5618]

Daveed Diggs is THE most underrated rapper in the whole fucking world

[@jackeb4165]

Daveed criminally underrated 😳

[@miserirken]

Daveed is pretty well known after Hamilton. Clipping, as a band, are the underrated ones...

[@fisheatsyourhead]

He isn't the GOAT but he's in my top 5 recently.

[@NoobTheShow24]

how many other rappers have a Tony

[@colecarter2829]

Tony AND a Grammy

[@kathrynimagin4969]

this feeds that confusing deeply detailed craving inside that you can't put your finger on & didn't know you had, while leaving you both satisfied & discontent, amirite?!

[@cecilhawes2040]

Kathryn Imagin and you just wanna cry while you're not listening to it.

[@InuzukaxClan]

It itches that itch that i can't get...

[@Inadace]

Oh my god yes

[@sleep_is_awesome2838]

Every time I listen to this, I have to let the video finish fully, so I get to assume that Clipping got a full cent, because he gave me so much more with this song.

[@josi1367]

I just read the novella and this song makes it even better. What a beautiful combination

[@trinadubya3406]

Just finished reading the book during lunch. This was the first thing I looked for when I came home. It's perfect.

[@genericspectator3094]

This song taught me what a pisol shrimp is so don't let anybody say rap can't be educational

[@mastersoftoday]

blood of the fang taught me birds have pneumatic bones (along with a whole lot of stuff about the BPP)

[@annalisalynn7009]

Daveed, William, and Jonathan along with Rivers Solomon wrote a novella (short book) based on this. I can’t wait to get my fingers on it.

[@concox2450]

This song is pretty deep

[@cecilhawes2040]

Concox fight me for that pun

[@Eebers]

SO deep

[@brunovaz]

No more deep

[@queendeebs2562]

Forever deep

[@vklocko4752]

so so deep

[@sylviaflores1756]

I just heard this on This American Life and I am freaking obsessed!!!!!!

[@winterflowerreads]

This song is so amazing. I just finished reading the book 'The Deep' (by Rivers Solomon) that was inspired by this song-I love finding hidden gems!

[@Seedaron]

That sounds really good. Hope they start a tour so I can finally see them live

[@cecilhawes2040]

..........This is the only song I've listened to for 24 hours, are you proud William, Jonathan, and Daveed?

[@timt3384]

Thank you NPR for this one

[@wavehellhole]

Damn man, clipping. does it again.

[@ninaalfa797]

I listened to this song today for the first time on That American life and as simple as this song is .. it really touched me May all these tortured souls be granted peace deep in the sea and deep in the earth 🙏🏻

[@ianprado1488]

New genre. Mermaid noise-hop

[@KH-wv1iy]

Came back to this after that submarine got lost. RIP to those on board, but this song still fire

[@denkimchi]

*SUNSHIIIIIIIIINE*

[@vklocko4752]

:)

[@josephstalin7506]

*ride on*

[@willlexie]

I'm about to read The Deep by Rivers Solomon, a book inspired by this song and the audiobook is also read by Daveed Diggs

[@dannybuchanan3661]

The fact that one label published Father John Misty, Clipping, Metric, The Shins, Shabazz Palaces. I normally don't have much admiration for record labels, but Sub Pop is the best label in the world.

[@eboethrasher]

BOOM Clipping. Time for a new tour.

[@Takkun1343]

Best acid trip I've ever had.

[@maddiwade7144]

It's the best feeling in the world when you find a song that you haven't heard from your favorite artist.

[@EliGamesOfficial]

This is, as always, brilliant stuff. Please, never stop making poetry.

[@cattaleyamacmanus9445]

D R E X C I Y A

[@Sektion9]

Drexciya for life ! Thank the heavens Gerald Donald is still making mind bending tunes.

[@Zegeebwah]

THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN

[@cinemapure.e]

This sounds like space rap that was made in the 80s, nice

[@Ruby-mz7lb]

ZXQaos I really like the kinda 80's hip-hop vibe it gives at some point. 🔥It's really good and from start to finish soothing to the ears. My mom enjoyed it and was like "It reminds me of the MC's back in the days"

[@cinemapure.e]

Sinai Cruz Yeah I think it's something to do with his flows, there's an amateurish quality to them but they're integrated really smoothly into the instrumental

[@Ruby-mz7lb]

ZXQaos my exact thoughts, feels very mature though. It's a full enjoyable song very well balanced and put together. I also like how Daveed is able to rap to story telling using poetry and figurative language. Im amazed. And the instrumentals are just pure delightful and so well balanced.

[@deadtech9417]

It's a direct homage to Drexciya: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexciya

[@okidot]

@@deadtech9417 More of a general reference to an era around time of Cybotron /Juan Atkins, even earlier than Drexciya

[@nightmare-nightmarenightma1147]

I'm in Deep, I can't stop listening to it.

[@paulhotchkiss3321]

This gets better every time I listen. Mind blown.

[@Lamadesbois]

clipping. did an interview with Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding of Switched on Pop where they explained how this song was recorded. For example they said that the sound at 1:25 was made by plunging hit hard disks disks in water.

[@ChaarityWilliams]

Here after reading the book in five hours.....read it.

[@alfigreen1476]

If the next album will be like this song I will totally spend all my money on this and I'm not even joking.

[@IanCordingley]

Congrats on the Hugo nomination!

[@mumeitomodachi]

Yo I'm weak this is real

[@memecream9912]

this song makes me want to knock on a Mormon's front door.

[@Henrynerdcore]

Holy shit this is great!! When I read it pays homage to drexciya I had to stop everything I was doing

[@Snackpie76]

I just discovering this & I haven't stopped playing it!!!!!

[@householdrecordings]

clipping. always making my mouth waterer

[@localmalakaunreleased8404]

This sounds like some hypnotic stuff... I like it.

[@WiseSageBum]

Am I the only one who wants to see a music video for this song? I imagine a battalion of mer-people in a battle-subs as their generals, played by clipping, remind them why they're going to war.

[@iheartwalle]

Theres a novella coming out from Rivers Solomon later this year based on this song

[@GoldenRainbow1987]

It's here!! The novella!

[@JVarni]

Came back specifically to see if anyone was mentioning Rivers' novella yet. Absolutely love that I was beat to it several times

[@FunFilmFare]

This song should be in "Aquaman: The Lost Kingdom"!

[@madisonbarron4996]

Clipping needs more recognition tbh

[@Ruby-mz7lb]

I really like the kinda 80's hip-hop vibe it gives at and from some sort of point. 🔥It's really good and from start to finish soothing to the ears. My mom enjoyed it and was like "It reminds me of the MC's back in the days" so I'm glad I can enjoy their music on a whole other level, rap story telling poetry at it's finest, Daveed is a Genius. We need more like him and clipping. 👀🔥

[@oOZAPPXVOVAOo]

GOD. YES. Thank You clipping. 🙏

[@BanilyaGorilya]

I like to imagine the events of this tune (based on the novella by River Solomon) takes place at the beginning of World War 2 when submarines were widely used (even though the American Union had ironclads in Civil War use) and especially when the world started detonating their nukes in the pacific oceans. The movie of this to me would look like Black Panther mixed with Aquaman, but with more Afrofuturist tones.

[@theyruinedyoutubeagain]

*progressive rap*

[@Madvillainy91]

I like the switch-ups on the beat

[@owenhorecny9596]

Best production in the game

[@maxthemink4790]

That was triply even that tempo in the song

[@solidkingcobra]

Yes, I ended up here because of This American Life. Thanks Neil Drumming!

[@melteddali8000]

Damn, this is great! Looking forward to the new album

[@alexisheng708]

i love when he says SUNSHIIIIIIIIIINE

[@evanam4621]

I can't believe my dad was addicted to this song for a while

[@insanelymundaneproductions7169]

is this music for fish?

[@tropicodelrey730]

Cant get over this song

[@benjaminloopy]

The last beat is so hard

[@shouldveknown2992]

clipping. goes drexciya?

[@queendeebs2562]

precisely

[@lizzyrooreal923]

I have never had a song trigger my thalasaphobia. I don't really mind i, but it is a little strange.

[@jasonbennett2194]

I can't wait to read the book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@icuvizion1889]

Around 3:55 I start getting an almost Aphex Twin vibe

[@CallumMcCartney]

ICU ViZioN Same

[@TheRinx87]

It sounds like Drexciya which makes sense because the entire song is a tribute to them.

[@norbicsek]

Good ol bloops and bleeps

[@jordan3636]

Which obviously aphex twin was very influenced by drexciya This is a direct homage to them including some direct samples pretty much all over the track

[@miserirken]

Woah i was jamming CLPPNG just one minute ago...

[@yesrelationthesequel]

The production of this is excellent. I keep hearing new little things every time I listen. 1:56 got me fucked up!

[@isaiahtheraccoon8928]

Oh damn this is really good

[@Koribaby1]

This song remains EPIC.

[@connorsherrington7863]

So the captions for this are pretty great

[@daryngoodwin4511]

I feel the future of clipping will be fun. They are finding a happy medium between bangers and avant-garde vibes. Not sure how much I will enjoy another album like splendor and misery. The amount of time with no music or rhythm gets tiring. This song sounds like a good mix between the two styles

[@BelindaKyle]

This is amazing stuff.

[@BelindaKyle]

So deep. So so deep.

[@chill2197]

NEW CLIPPING YESSSS

[@missemm4658]

Latest rerun This America life episode brought me here

[@EvsPersonal]

This is incredibly impressive. actually wtf

[@subpop]

exactly our thoughts every time clipping delivers

[@yourmother2836]

I have lost hope for humanity.

[@ndeertrack]

I need to know how this artist is connected to or influenced by Drexciya!!!

[@WholeLifeCrisis]

The intro says they were unaware of the two legs, but the second verse says they were in disbelief that it was the two legs who were attacking. I don't make no sense to me! Either way this song is addictive.

[@ambskater97]

"unaware of the two-legged surface dwellers until their world came to destroy ours."

[@WholeLifeCrisis]

MasterBerry but the "it couldn't be them two legs" idea implies prior knowledge!

[@bombshellblonde544]

Ollie Rosser Maybe unaware that the two-legs still existed, but knew that they originated from two-legs?

[@jayholliman7398]

TIME TO . BREAK . THE . GLASS .

[@EKelly-vz3et]

This is amazing

[@treywalker5827]

What? Crazy ass message, but fly as all hell!