clipping. - All Black 

Never knew a song about a spaceship falling in love with a runaway slave could be so fire.

I love how clipping can successfully make a song without explicitly scary lyrics absolutely terrifying. I feel completely alone and awake listening to this song.

I like how clipping barely ever has a beat in the background but can still make the song sound awesome

"Warning: mothership reporting. This love will be defended at all costs. Do not fuck with it." i got CHILLS

"this love will be defended at all costs. Do Not Fuck With It." MAKES ME GO ABSOLUTELY FERAL EVERYTIME I CANT 😭

This song hits different in quarintine

There is music where you need to infer the story, then there is this, where it doesn't hide it. it just tells you a story, and a damn good one at that. Love this track so much.

This song gives me serious anxiety, yet it's so addicting that I still listen to it in my sleep.

i want clipping to write a scifi novel for me

a danger to himself and others, but there are no others/so the danger clear and present is presented as the gift of freedom wrapped in days of rapping to himself until his vocal cords collapse/he's in the gallery screaming ALL BLACK EVERYTHING

best song of the album

At first I thought the part where the mother ship says "do not fuck with it" seemed out of character, but then I realized it probably implies some development that it has adopted from listening to the fugitive rhymes

i hate when people say "this is real rap" like let people like things. Sometimes I'm feelin mad deep and want to listen to some allegorical shit like this but sometimes i want to listen to 21 rap about killing people.

I actually have shivers. I came here to listen to Daveed and honestly I feel so attacked right now. Shit, this is addicting. Well, gotta go listen to the rest of the album.

I'm going to get addicted to this I can already tell

I realize the "still a better love story than Twilight" thing is played out, but ALSO, this is a much better love story than most full novels manage (even well-written ones, not, y'know, Twilight...). The full album is excellent but this is by far my favorite track. I want to see it made into a series like the Expanse or Childhood's End.

He spends millennia in stasis in between bouts of consciousness. He never makes contact. He constantly moves away. There's no way for him (or us) to know if there is anyone else left. He could be the only living human. The "mothership reporting" could be little more than an automated transmission reaching out to no one. The magnitude of this kind of isolation is incomprehensible, to the point where the ensuing madness might as well be the reality, his past as an escaped slave having vanished into the shadows of ancient, unreliable memories. Yeah, this is easily the best song on the album. Nothing else on the album even comes close to painting a picture this vivid.

okay but why is this guy so underrated

This is my favorite song from clipping

This songs makes me nervous, but I always click to listen to it again.

I'd love to see a collab with animals as leaders. I feel like all these dudes have the chops to create something earthshaking

CRIMINALLY UNDERRATED

Daveed you genius! It's not just the fact that it's so different from a lot of rap and hip hop, it's the fact that the lyrics are so enticing and beautifully put together. I couldn't stop listening to it, it's such an addictive story, and the beats are so amazing!

this song is life

"Do not fuck with it" "It's like that?" "Yeah I don't fool around, I'm not your little school boy-"

This instrumental helps me sleep. It’s almost like white noise

The novel of lyrics Warning: mothership reporting Cargo number 2331 has commandeered the vessel Warning: mothership reporting Cargo number 2331 is armed and he is dangerous Warning: mothership reporting Cargo number 2331 is setting a new course Warning: mothership reporting Mothership reporting: All black everything All black everything All black everything All black No landing, geared up for arrival, nowhere to arrive to The subject seems upset by that to which he is subjected But convinced he brought it on himself That's why he roll with a bible on the console Inconsolable, no consolation, no cancellation Not turning all keys, he puts the ship through paces And paces the halls, pacing is madness Patience is virtuous, patient of these observations It was all a dream, he poses by the lift outside the mezzanine Like a photo in a magazine And always keeps the weapons' magazines clean Paranoia prone, he babbles beautifully Of Babylon and enemies and foes And forgoing food sustains himself on anger A danger to himself and others but there are no others So the danger clear and present is presented as The gift of freedom wrapped in days of rapping to himself Until his vocal cords collapse, he's in the galley screaming He shouts at the dark, stands back Counting the seconds before his voice returns (All black everything) No more cracks in the hull The small crack in the skull healed up quickly, now it is (All black everything) The space stretches on and the pace that he's on Matters not as he hurtles into the (All black everything) He repeats it at night with the lights out in his cot crying soft curses into the (All black everything, all black everything) (All black everything, all black) Something within this one's different The others died so easily and he is so persistent He never did bleed out and fever couldn't kill his system Though it was pumped through all the vents In the event of a total loss of control He quotes Kendrick's "Control" verse and spews his vitriol Into the echoes of the bowels of this floating metal hull And holds his pillow for dear life while he grinds his teeth at night And he rarely makes requests except to say, "Turn on the lights." But there is so much more to give He ignores processing power He stumbles to the shower, a ritual of some sort And he insists on speaking passages before he eats And he keeps asking if these programs carry any beats The reply is (All black everything) His vitals read normal but his face reads murderous Something hides within the (All black everything) He tries, overrides, and he thinks he has been locked out By some other force in the (All black everything) He doesn't suspect this is the heart that's been keeping him out For it has been warned to be (All black everything) And in this program to transport nothing more But he's unlocked something new inside this (All black everything) (All black everything, all black everything) (All black) Look how he flexes in the mirror So vain he probably thinks this song is about him All songs are about him Look how perplexed and how sincere His lame attempts to fix the wrong around him Can't go long without him His bouts of stasis are torture He feels them not, like a brief sleep While ship's clocks count millennia The course relentlessly forward, the gears are hot The driest creek while he pit-stops, calling for anyone But dare not stay long, he knows they're coming for him That time will not afford him Any cover, any pardon This is the choice that he has made No matter how much time or space has passed since his escape He is still a runaway slave and so lonely If only he realized this ship is more than metal There's friendship in the wiring, and so lonely If only he realized this ship has many levels There's pleasure in here hiding, come find it Don't mind this frame, time has made stranger bedfellows Made foes lovers before, there's no reason to torture yourself further You've lost it all already, you deserve more than you're getting For the sake of not upsetting order in the (All black everything) He must find a place to be still The body can only take so much (All black everything) The navigations are failing, having traveled further than before Into the (All black everything) But they won't quit, they carry on He carries on, he will not be victim to the (All black everything) His survival is paramount, there is no other objective Safe passage through the (All black everything) (All black everything, all black everything) (All black everything, all black) Warning: mothership reporting This will be the last report, turn back, everything is fine Warning: mothership reporting Cargo number 2331 is not a danger, let him be Warning: mothership reporting If you continue to pursue there will be no choice but to destroy you Warning: mothership reporting This love will be defended at all costs, do not fuck with it All black everything All black everything All black everything All black

this gives me a janelle monae metropolis: the chase suite kinda vibe....

So fucking good.

This is insanely good.

I got scared shitless because I thought my headphones were malfunctioning, I just bought them dammit.

"Prisoner zero has escaped"

Just perfect.

HOW IS THIS ONLY 4000 VIEWS

Why am I listening to this in the dark?

Cant wait for the new album soon.

Anyone else reminded of Bout That when he says “all black everything”?

Dang good.

I fucking love this so, so much

House of spades represent: Vanexea/mothership introduced me to this song

Somebody please pair this album with deadspace

So vain he thinks this song is about him All songs are about him

In those days good will be called evil and evil good

DO NOT FUCK WITH IT

great

Who tf disliked this!?

Aquarius Gang

Tune It Up 56k views

Fantano brought me here

*cuidado pezoau tá tudu pretuuuu*

Sound like Outkast.

Reminds me of the Martian in a way

goths be like

"Navigation is failing.." idk guys black kinda sus

If you continue to pursue there will be no choice but to destroy you

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#NoGenre

okay call me cancer but this reminds me so much of wd gaster from undertale

>nu-Star Trek's writers listen to clipping. once

this song is super well made. and unlike modern rap and hip hop, I didn't feel my brain rotting from the lack of intelligence.

What is this? This is just a spoken word. I see there's no music involved.

he's annoying af.