"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! :-)
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.
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.
+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
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.
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.🔥
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
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?!
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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"
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
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.
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 🙏🏻
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.
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. 👀🔥
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.
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.
Now theres a bo8k written specifically for this song lol an entire YA novel named, The Deep. The book sounds super good though. But regardless, i just cant get in to this shiz... nay nay musics lol
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
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
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.
"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! :-)
If the Next Album sound anything like this, I'm Fucking Sold. #itsClippingBitch
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.
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.
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.
+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
Tha Swami Wheres the fucking sound correlation between clipping.: the experimental hip hop noise outfit and Vince Staples: The Trip-Hop rapper?
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
Man Daveed needs more recognition for his rapping. Like seriously.
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.
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.🔥
kyoto graphic Thanks for the information I wasn't really aware. I'm excited to hear their upcoming music. 🙌🏼
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.
Little did you know how right you’d be
MERMAID👏🏼CONCEPT👏🏼ALBUM
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
I am supremely pleased by this imagining.
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.
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.
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
😂😂😂
Every time I listen to this song, I look for this comment.
First the streets, then the abyss of space, and now the underwater mysteries of the deep... Fuck yes
This is like a siren song, mesmerizing
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.
No.
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!
OMG I need this new clipping like schools need teachers bruh
this
More relevant now than ever
The world needs this to be a full concept album.
They're making a book about it
EP coming soon!
@@Jack-cu5il Wow, had to look this up. Beyond thrilled!
your wish has been fulfilled
It's inspired by and set in the same world as the music of Drexciya!
I feel like I just watched a movie with my third eye
Agreed! This song is brilliant. I would love to see the creators of Into the Spider-verse make something based on it.
Rhett Barton into the spiderverse? Now that’s a great idea! I, too, would love to see that 🙌
Did...did you mean your imagination?
Shamsa, that is the best description!
Maria Limon thanks! 😆
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?!
Kathryn Imagin and you just wanna cry while you're not listening to it.
It itches that itch that i can't get...
Oh my god yes
Daveed Diggs is THE most underrated rapper in the whole fucking world
Daveed criminally underrated 😳
Daveed is pretty well known after Hamilton. Clipping, as a band, are the underrated ones...
He isn't the GOAT but he's in my top 5 recently.
how many other rappers have a Tony
Tony AND a Grammy
THE EP COVER IS LEGIT I LIKE THE CMYK TOUCH AND REGISTRATION MARKS
Oh. My. Gosh. I LOVE THIS SONG! They played it on the radio, and now I cant stop listening.
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.
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.
Theres a novella coming out from Rivers Solomon later this year based on this song
It's here!! The novella!
Came back specifically to see if anyone was mentioning Rivers' novella yet. Absolutely love that I was beat to it several times
This song should be in "Aquaman: The Lost Kingdom"!
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.
This song taught me what a pisol shrimp is so don't let anybody say rap can't be educational
blood of the fang taught me birds have pneumatic bones (along with a whole lot of stuff about the BPP)
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!
This song is pretty deep
Concox fight me for that pun
SO deep
No more deep
Forever deep
so so deep
I just read the novella and this song makes it even better. What a beautiful combination
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
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..
Gabby W and then it's over too soon
I'm late as hell to the whole clipping thing but this man's really out here making Lovecraft references
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
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.
New genre. Mermaid noise-hop
It was so fun watching the sign language interpreter do this song at the Hugo Awards. When Daveed went off, she went off.
*SUNSHIIIIIIIIINE*
:)
*ride on*
..........This is the only song I've listened to for 24 hours, are you proud William, Jonathan, and Daveed?
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!
That sounds really good. Hope they start a tour so I can finally see them live
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
D R E X C I Y A
Drexciya for life ! Thank the heavens Gerald Donald is still making mind bending tunes.
THE COUNTDOWN HAS BEGUN
Just finished reading the book during lunch. This was the first thing I looked for when I came home. It's perfect.
I just heard this on This American Life and I am freaking obsessed!!!!!!
Thank you NPR for this one
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
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.
this song makes me want to knock on a Mormon's front door.
is this music for fish?
Came back to this after that submarine got lost. RIP to those on board, but this song still fire
This sounds like space rap that was made in the 80s, nice
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"
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
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.
It's a direct homage to Drexciya: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexciya
@@deadtech9417 More of a general reference to an era around time of Cybotron /Juan Atkins, even earlier than Drexciya
This is, as always, brilliant stuff. Please, never stop making poetry.
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 🙏🏻
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.
Damn man, clipping. does it again.
Holy shit this is great!! When I read it pays homage to drexciya I had to stop everything I was doing
*progressive rap*
BOOM Clipping. Time for a new tour.
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. 👀🔥
Best acid trip I've ever had.
Here after reading the book in five hours.....read it.
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.
Yo I'm weak this is real
clipping. goes drexciya?
precisely
I like the switch-ups on the beat
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.
It's the best feeling in the world when you find a song that you haven't heard from your favorite artist.
I'm in Deep, I can't stop listening to it.
I need to know how this artist is connected to or influenced by Drexciya!!!
Now theres a bo8k written specifically for this song lol an entire YA novel named, The Deep. The book sounds super good though.
But regardless, i just cant get in to this shiz... nay nay musics lol
Around 3:55 I start getting an almost Aphex Twin vibe
ICU ViZioN Same
It sounds like Drexciya which makes sense because the entire song is a tribute to them.
Good ol bloops and bleeps
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
If the next album will be like this song I will totally spend all my money on this and I'm not even joking.
This gets better every time I listen. Mind blown.
The last beat is so hard
This sounds like some hypnotic stuff...
I like it.
TIME TO . BREAK . THE . GLASS .
Cant get over this song
"When y'all swam up out yo mamma while y'all mamma was asleep"😹
#SoDeep
I just discovering this & I haven't stopped playing it!!!!!
Congrats on the Hugo nomination!
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
That was triply even that tempo in the song
i love when he says
SUNSHIIIIIIIIIINE
IT'S KLIPPAN BENCH
clipping. always making my mouth waterer
Woah i was jamming CLPPNG just one minute ago...
I have never had a song trigger my thalasaphobia. I don't really mind i, but it is a little strange.
GOD. YES. Thank You clipping. 🙏
Best production in the game
Are you ready to go yet?
Let's go.
This is incredibly impressive. actually wtf
exactly our thoughts every time clipping delivers
I have lost hope for humanity.
I can't believe my dad was addicted to this song for a while
Clipping needs more recognition tbh
Latest rerun This America life episode brought me here
Eldritch rap.
Yes, I ended up here because of This American Life.
Thanks Neil Drumming!
This song remains EPIC.
4:13 Is that from Chrono Trigger?
I think it's a coincidence, but yeah it's close.
2:58 this song turns the fuck up! What up Daveed! Killin' it as always!Please do some stuff down in SD!
The production of this is excellent. I keep hearing new little things every time I listen. 1:56 got me fucked up!
Drexciya!
Damn, this is great! Looking forward to the new album