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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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El-P
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 2
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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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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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We're not steadfast about not repeating mistakes.
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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 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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There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.
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I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.
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I've never had a huge collection of records I've never been a beat digga.
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The only thing an artist is useful for, and the only reason why we don't just line 'em up against the wall and shoot them, is because, at their best, they're the reflection of our lives, that most regular people can't even afford to think about.
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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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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 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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Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.
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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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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 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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So inane-I cause Colon Blow pain
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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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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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