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May 2022
26m 50s

Jen Ives & An Escape Into Space

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Splendor & Misery is a sci-fi concept album by experimental rap trio Clipping.

Lyrics and soundscapes combine to tell an Afrofuturist story of an escape from oppression into the void of space. Jen Ives prepares to be transported.

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