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El-P
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 2
Hip-Hop Artist
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Brooklyn
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I'm a fan of some of the hyphy stuff. Hyphy has been going on a lot longer than the press has been recognizing it.
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There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.
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I hope that people take away hope, maybe not in an obvious sense, but in the form of hearing somebody who's genuinely fighting to stay above water. And in that fight, there's hope. In that fight, maybe there's positivity.
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There's a segment of this world, there's a mind state that's permeated the intellectual consciousness of this world that comes from a certain type of people that looks at me and you and your average individual as a problem - like a blight on an otherwise potential paradise, something that needs to be cured.
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I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of the human experience in some way.
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Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good. Sometimes it's to make you feel amped, or angry, or nervous. I was listening to a lot of Public Enemy when I made the record.
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Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.
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My relationship to Brooklyn is probably the relationship that any 40-year-old man has to his hometown, which is that this is where I live, this what I know, yet it's different, it's changed. My fascination with the city has maybe subsided and now it's just where I'm from, where I live.
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I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.
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Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good.
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The emergence of the independent hip-hop scene has replaced what we called the underground scene. It's what the underground scene has evolved into: actual businesses.
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As you get bigger, your staff gets bigger, and your costs get bigger.
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We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.
El-P
I try to take a snapshot of who I am now, who I am becoming, as opposed to who I was when I was first starting to make records. I'm not trying to make boring adult music, but I try to make music more reflective of what matters to me now.
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There is a difference these days between who's making the music and buying the music, in terms of the way that they think, grew up, and their perspective. It's become much more diverse.
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I've always believed that if you cannot do it, then you should not do it.Only when it comes to the point where you've literally dug yourself into a hole, where it's sink or swim, is that viable to me.
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The fact of the matter is, if you're not putting out stuff that people are feeling, then your record label doesn't mean a goddamn thing.
El-P
We're not steadfast about not repeating mistakes.
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Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.
El-P
I think that everyone who does music, and everyone who does art, or everyone who decides at a young age that they're gonna do that, is someone who feels like an outsider. The world is not really set up for that.
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