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Daveed Diggs’ sci-fi rap trio Clipping: ‘We are at war all the time. It’s one of the great tricks of capitalism’

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Daveed Diggs is the first person to play Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton .

He and William Hutson formed Clipping in Los Angeles in 2010 to create sci-fi music.

On their new album Dead Channel Sky , he raps with mechanical precision over warped rave music.

Diggs weaves blood-soaked horror stories about racial violence in outer space.

The track Code samples the 1996 Afrofuturist film The Last Angel of History .

The trio are already well-respected in sci-fi circles.

Their 2016 album Splendor & Misery was nominated for a Hugo award.

But their latest cyberpunk theme has a strong affinity with hip-hop.

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