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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.
El-P
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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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Jaime Meline
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I've never had a huge collection of records I've never been a beat digga.
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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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Maybe my great struggle, and it's probably not anything different from too many other people, but it certainly is what drives the music, is a hugely internal one.
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As you get bigger, your staff gets bigger, and your costs get bigger.
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At the core of everything I do, is not my ambition but my desire to make music. Somewhere along the line I stumbled onto something that was bigger, different than anything I had ever imagined, which was actually being involved with other people. I just don't live the average artist's life.
El-P
Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.
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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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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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I do these records. All of these ideas that I have, that I put out there, that inspire me to write, are a purging in a lot of ways. I have to expel them in order for myself to walk around and actually smile and be a regular, or a living, person.
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We're not steadfast about not repeating mistakes.
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Oh my god what am I doing with my life?
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There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.
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I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.
El-P
Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.
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Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.
El-P
The only thing an artist is useful for, and the only reason why we don't just line 'em up against the wall and shoot them, is because, at their best, they're the reflection of our lives, that most regular people can't even afford to think about.
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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'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.
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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.
El-P
I am making art. It's not a job that you've gotta show up to and fill in your slot. This is a dream come true. You get the opportunity to say something, to make a piece of art and hang it on the wall forever. Sometimes you're gonna have to take your time.
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