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I've never had a huge collection of records I've never been a beat digga.

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El-P
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 2
Hip-Hop Artist
Musician
Rapper
Record Producer
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Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Jaime Meline
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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 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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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.
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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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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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Oh my god what am I doing with my life?
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As you get bigger, your staff gets bigger, and your costs get bigger.
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I think you get to a certain point in your life and where you grew up stops reminding you of when you grew up. Everything changes, everything metamorphosizes.
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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.
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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 fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.
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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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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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So inane-I cause Colon Blow pain
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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 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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I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.
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