Saga Press senior editor Navah Wolfe became 'transfixed' by the 'stories that need to be told' in the album Clipping put out a short time later, which led to a Hugo Award nomination for Best Dramatic Presentation (short form). We mashed that up with a few details from Parliament’s Motor Booty Affair album, as if they and Drexiya were writing about two different aspects of the same place.' According to the group, 'The Deep' is an homage to Acid/Techno duo Drexciya, residing in the same mythological universe created for their music: 'All of their records refer to a utopian underwater civilization founded by African mothers thrown overboard from slave ships. Show producer Neil Drumming also commissioned a song for the episode called “The Deep” from hip-hop group Clipping. In 2017, Chicago Public Radio program This American Life aired an episode called “We Are in the Future” dealing with Afrofuturism, a cultural aesthetic, philosophy of science and philosophy of history that explores the developing intersection of African diaspora culture with technology.

It won the Lambda Literary Award, and was nominated for Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards. The book was developed from a song of the same name by Clipping, an experimental hip-hop trio.

It depicts an underwater society built by the water-breathing descendants of pregnant slaves thrown overboard from slave ships. The Deep is a 2019 fantasy book by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes.

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