Quote

I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.

El-P

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

El-P
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 2
Hip-Hop Artist
Musician
Rapper
Record Producer
Singer
Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Jaime Meline
Single
Since
Existence
Year
Artist
Approached
Every
Labels
Years
Majors
Major

More quotes by El-P

Image
So inane-I cause Colon Blow pain
El-P
Image
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.
El-P
Image
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.
El-P
Image
Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.
El-P
Image
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.
El-P
Image
Oh my god what am I doing with my life?
El-P
Image
We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.
El-P
Image
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.
El-P
Image
Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.
El-P
Image
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.
El-P
Image
I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.
El-P
Image
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.
El-P
Image
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.
El-P
Image
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.
El-P
Image
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.
El-P
Image
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
Image
There's something in the German language that makes you feel like you're getting a hug and a backstab at the same time.
El-P
Image
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.
El-P
Image
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.
El-P
Image
As you get bigger, your staff gets bigger, and your costs get bigger.
El-P