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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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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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I've never had a huge collection of records I've never been a beat digga.
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I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.
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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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There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.
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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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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 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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I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.
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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'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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We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.
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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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Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.
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There are all the offsprings of people who are influenced by punk. It sounds completely different - but it's still rock 'n' roll. When hip-hop came on the scene, it was the last legitimate creation of a new genre.
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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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