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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
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Brooklyn
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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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There are two types of people, two types of performers: Performers who know how to keep a show going literally when the power is gone and performers who haven't had that much experience and will panic and freak out and don't know what to do.
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The advancement of style is the cornerstone of hip hop. There is no correct or conservative way to make rap music. Rap is and must remain the answer, the alternative, to the conservative approach of making music.
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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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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 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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There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.
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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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I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.
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Oh my god what am I doing with my life?
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Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.
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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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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 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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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.
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I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.
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We're not steadfast about not repeating mistakes.
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I believe that if you're an artist, it's like a gift. If you can do this for a living and you can be involved in it, it's something that you can't ignore. It's the chance for you to have a voice and create something from yourself.
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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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