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We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.
El-P
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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'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.
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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'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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I've never had a huge collection of records I've never been a beat digga.
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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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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'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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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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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 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.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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