Happy Halloween!
Welcome to Week 7 of our Book (Album) Club! This weeks extra spooky album is There Existed an Addiction to Blood by clipping.
Please give the album a fresh listen and give us your thoughts, opinions and possibly hot takes.
Doesn’t matter if this is your 100th time listening to the album or you listen to the album the first time right before posting!
November 7th: It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back by Public Enemy
November 14th: The Blueprint by Jay Z
November 21st: Blac Sabbath by Blacastan
November 28th: Ready to Die by The Notorious B.I.G.
I’ve been a fan of these guys since this album came out. I’m all about music that provides for a different kind of experience. I like the experimental, noisy, industrial sounds across this album and I like the horror movie elements that are utilized. I think I have listened to this one and Visions of Bodies Being Burned every Halloween since their release.
I am especially a fan of Daveed Diggs’ rapping. His articulation is really impressive. Even when he’s rapping in double time or in triplets it is still pretty easy to understand what he’s saying.
And a fun fact for those who don’t know, Diggs made a name for himself from the roles of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the musical Hamilton. So yeah, one of the guys in Hamilton and the rapper from clipping. are the same guy.
I was looking up Daveed Diggs after seeing this. He has done so much. He has awards for rapping, acting (stage and TV), writing (TV and Movie), and was nominated for a Hugo. Some people are just better. He is basically a less famous Donald Glover, which I mean as a huge compliment.
Also, I listened to Visions of Bodies Being Burned last night, but I had my wife with me this time. I really enjoyed it, in the same way I liked There Existed an Addiction to Blood. Meaning I found it kind of unpleasant and enjoyed that haha. She hated it sadly, but was nice enough to sit with me through it anyways. I’ll have to listen to it by myself at some point because I think her being there made the experience less nerve-wracking than it would have been otherwise. Favorite track was probably Pain Everyday or Enlacing. My wife’s was Check the Lock I think. I think she liked it most because it was a relatively straight forward rap song.