Clipping drop new protest EP Chapter 319 on Juneteenth

Chapter 319 features two tracks - 2014's "Knees on the Ground" (which was previously released on SoundCloud), and new track "Chapter 319", which was recorded this month.

"Knees on the Ground" tackles the lack of trust between the police and black communities, and features the lyrics, "A line in riot gear waving glass / Full head to toe body armor / A line of paper signs waving flags / Crying for dead sons and daughters."

"Chapter 319" is a direct response to Donald Trump and the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests. Daveed Diggs raps, "A knee to the neck is this week's / Symbol of shit you've been reaping / As a reaper of people there's no equal / To the police and they be their own sequel."

Later in the verse, he raps, "This government doesn't respect us / And somehow they seem to expect us to accept / The power a piece of shit millionaire president wants to project / Fuck are you getting at? Get the fuck back in the bunker / We taking back spaces til' you manage to make them safe for black faces / That's up to the fact that America's racist."

Daveed Diggs also calls Donald Trump a "white supremacist", adding, "If you vote for him again you're a white supremacist, full stop / Call it like it is and then let the rims spin til' they full stop / Put one up for Big Floyd, the march is not goin' to stop."

"Chapter 319" also features a sample of "Freestyle" by DJ Screw and Big Floyd (the late George Floyd).

Both tracks are available on a pay-what-you-can basis on Bandcamp. The site will be donating all proceeds from sales on Juneteenth (19 June) to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Clipping are splitting their portion of all Bandcamp sales between George Floyd’s daughter's GoFundMe (the Official Gianna Floyd Fund), People’s Breakfast Oakland, The Okra Project, and Afrorack.

After today (19 June), sales of the two tracks will "be periodically collected and donated to organisations dedicated to racial justice."