Innovations 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.
| A1 | Body & Blood |
| A2 | Work Work |
| A3 | Summertime |
| A4 | Inside Out |
| B1 | Tonight |
| B2 | Dream |
| B3 | Get Up |
| B4 | Or Die |
| C1 | Taking Off |
| C2 | Story 2 |
| C3 | Dominoes |
| C4 | Williams Mix |
| D1 | Untitled |
