Clipping members Daveed Diggs, William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes were involved with the books development throughout, and are listed as co-authors. This became Yetu, the protagonist, memory-keeper of her people. Solomon found the existing outline of the story well-suited for novel form, but still had to develop a main character to carry the story, with a unique voice and back story. Their greed and recklessness forced / our uprising. With cannons, they searched / for oil beneath our cities. We built our home on the / seafloor, unaware of the two-legged surface dwellers until / their world came to destroy ours. We were born / breathing water as we did in the womb. Our mothers were pregnant African women thrown overboard while / crossing the Atlantic Ocean on slave ships. She found the voice she was looking for in Rivers Solomon, who was already interested in much of what was in the material, including " diaspora and slavery, ecological devastation, memory and remembrance", the lyrics evoking African women drowned on the journey across the sea, of climate change and environmental destruction, of the passion of the ancestors and drive of the survivors: With the trio's blessings, she set out to find a writer to bring the story to life. 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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