clipping. 'There Existed an Addiction to Blood'

The science-fiction visionary Octavia Butler once declared, “there is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” This idea of reinvention defines clipping., the Los Angeles trio of rapper Daveed Diggs and producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes. Unlike traditional first-person hip-hop narratives, they craft conceptual, genre-bending worlds filled with industrial chaos and intricate storytelling. Over the past half-decade, they have carved out a unique space, fusing the past’s raw foundations with their vision of the future.

Their third Sub Pop album, 'There Existed an Addiction to Blood', reimagines horrorcore—a subgenre pioneered by Brotha Lynch Hung, Gravediggaz, Geto Boys, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony—through an experimental, cinematic lens. clipping. transforms horrorcore’s absurdist violence into something eerily atmospheric, blending rap with noise and avant-garde production. Their sound evokes a post-apocalyptic club drenched in radiation, where haunting beats and unsettling narratives thrive. It’s horrorcore reanimated—undead yet dangerously alive, a blinding new sun designed to burn.