10 Great Hip Hop Albums With Only One Bad Song
5. Piano Burning - Clipping
Looking back on the 2010's, Daveed Diggs' resume is one of the more impressive in music history. Along with being in the role of LaFayette in the Broadway version of Hamilton, he's also been known as one of the primary voices in alternative hip hop as part of the collective Clipping. And boy were we in for a left turn with There Existed An Addiction to Blood.
Across this entire album, this is the kind of horrorcore that would go over perfectly in a Halloween setting, with songs inspired by everything from werewolves to framing different forms of police brutality as a horror movie unto itself. When we reach the final track though, we are greeted with nothing but ambience. There's no artistic statement in the title either, this is literally just 18 minutes of a piano being burned, which the band decided to mike up during the recording process.
For any music fan, this is normally where you would wait for a jump scare or a sudden blast of noise, but all you get is just the faint crackles of rotting wood as a beautiful instrument gets torched. You could argue that this was a way to provide an ominous ending to the album, by letting the audience reflect on the dark stuff they just heard. Outside of the album though, there's no one that's going to respin this for the hell of it.