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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.

El-P

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El-P
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 2
Hip-Hop Artist
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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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Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.
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Maybe my great struggle, and it's probably not anything different from too many other people, but it certainly is what drives the music, is a hugely internal one.
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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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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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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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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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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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Oh my god what am I doing with my life?
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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've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.
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So inane-I cause Colon Blow pain
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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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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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We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.
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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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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 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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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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