Afrofuturism in Kali Uchis & Clipping (with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes)

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Parliament Funkadelic has had waves of influence on popular music. Their Afrofuturist message and infectious grooves built the backbone of 70s funk, was revived in the 90s with Dr. Dre's G-Funk, and is once again in vogue with in the music of Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino and Kali Uchis. Bootsy Collins, bass player of Parliament Funkadelic, collaborated with Kali Uchis and Tyler the Creator on the track "After The Storm," which draws on the P-Funk sound. Similarly, Clipping pay homage to the P-Funk lineage through their Hugo nominated song "The Deep," which was produced in collaboration with This American Life. The story explores a mythology created by the band Drexciya. In the story, an underwater civilization birthed from African slaves crossing the Atlantic battles their makers to save their habitat. Listen to hear what makes both infectious tracks so effective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary Lisa's final act now on YouTube.
0:30.0	Welcome to Switched On Pop.
0:34.7	I'm Songwriter Charlie Harding and I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:38.4	Nailed that.
0:39.4	Today we want to look at how musicians push our ears to hear other worldly sounds and
0:47.0	joining us is Clipping Who Are Made Up Of Jonathan Snipes.
0:51.4	William Hudson.
0:52.4	Devy Diggs.
0:53.4	You guys got your cues perfectly, thank you.
0:55.8	Clipping are a phenomenal hip hop group and experts at using both familiar and challenging
1:00.3	sounds to make deeply affective music.
1:03.1	The straddles align between accessibility and difficulty.
1:06.6	And today we're going to break down their Hugo nominated single The Deep, a truly other
1:11.2	worldly track about an underwater civilization birthed from African women who had been
1:15.8	tossed overboard from slave ships sailing to the Americas.
1:19.5	Track is truly deep and I'm sorry for the pun but I had to happen.
1:24.1	So first as an amused bush we want to start with things as we always do.
1:28.6	We're going to deconstruct a pop track together and in this case I think it's going to be really
1:32.0	successful because today we're going to talk about Cali Uchi's Intata of the Creators after
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