{"id":42590,"date":"2017-09-06T15:46:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T13:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/hear-the-rap-song-inspired-by-drexciyas-afrofuturist-myth\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:38:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:38:41","slug":"hear-the-rap-song-inspired-by-drexciyas-afrofuturist-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/hear-the-rap-song-inspired-by-drexciyas-afrofuturist-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear the rap song inspired by Drexciya’s afrofuturist myth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LA experimental hip hop band clipping.’s new single ‘The Deep’ pays tribute to legendary Detroit electro-techno group Drexciya. via\u00a0Genius<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n

Noise rap group\u00a0clipping.<\/strong>\u00a0is familiar with the Afroturism thematic. Their last project\u00a0Splendor & Misery<\/em>\u00a0was an \u201cAfrofuturist, dystopian concept album that follows the sole survivor of a slave uprising on an interstellar cargo ship, and the onboard computer that falls in love with him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Their song \u201cThe Deep\u201d – originally made for an episode of Afrofuturism podcast\u00a0\u201cWe Are in the Future\u201d<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0is this time focused on another Afrofuturist myth, one that\u00a0Drexciya<\/strong>\u00a0created and used as a storyline throughout their discography. Drexciya, a duo composed of\u00a0Gerald Donald<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0James Stinson<\/strong>\u00a0– who passed away 13 years ago from heart complications –\u00a0revealed in the sleeve notes to their 1997 album\u00a0The Quest<\/i>\u00a0that “Drexciya” was an underwater country populated by the unborn children of pregnant African women who were thrown off of slave ships; the babies had adapted to breathe underwater in their mothers’ wombs.<\/span><\/p>\n