Total Clipse of the Sacred Heart

Clipse began their career with a funeral announcement: their own. I think that’s what drew me to the brothers from Virginia Beach. With dollars and drugs swirling around them (Malice and Pusha T had started dealing coke in their teens), they looked into the grave and saw themselves. “The Funeral,” their first single, remembered death with humor, anger, the specificity of experience. As memento mori go, it was the opposite of a similarly titled, much more successful release.