YMMV / clipping.

• Broken Base: What's best: the twisted and up to eleven Gangsta Rap noise of midcity, the lyrical and cliche-lax lament of inner city life in CLPPNG, the conceptual sci-fi romp of Splendor and Misery or the minimalist horrorcore of There Existed an Addiction to Blood and Visions Of Bodies Being Burned? And even in that, there's a split between whether TEAAB or VOBBB is better.
  • Which Story variant was the best?
• Fandom Rivalry: With Death Grips, as is to be expected of another experimental/industrial rap act. Death Grips fans (and associated noise acts) think clipping. are cliche rappers wearing the cloak of Harsh Noise; clipping. fans (among other noise rap acts) accuse Death Grips of being untalented noise that only appeals to snobby backpackers. clipping. themselves commented on it, with Daveed especially saying he's not worried about comparisons as he feels Death Grips is extremely different from what they do.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • That said, there is a chunk of crossover fans who like both clipping. and Death Grips, having discovered one through the other, and expect a few mashup mixtapes.
  • On an unrelated note, kinship exists between them and the Mountain Goats, self-admitted fans of each other's work who once put out an album on the same day.
• Genius Bonus: Their beats tend to be loaded with this, from the twelve-tone melody of "Shooter" to the bizarre, intricate time signatures of "Story 7." That's not even going into the esoteric references that pop up in Daveed's lines, or in the band's naming conventions.
• Hilarious in Hindsight/Harsher in Hindsight: "La Mala Ordina" argues, as its central theme, that the thug life and the rapstar image of it are totally at odds. Benny the Butcher in particular accuses "tote straps [who] never smoked jack, but go live with it" of "dry snitching", and singles out "rap niggas [who] dye they hair just to sell some singles." Not a week after the song debuted, 6ix9ine demonstrated their point exactly.