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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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El-P
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 2
Hip-Hop Artist
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Brooklyn
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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 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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We're not steadfast about not repeating mistakes.
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I've never had a huge collection of records I've never been a beat digga.
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As you get bigger, your staff gets bigger, and your costs get bigger.
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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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I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.
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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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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 am trying to change hip-hop music because I do feel there are places people can go with production and the structure of an album that they haven't gone yet. But, like I said, I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.
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We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.
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I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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