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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

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El-P
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 2
Hip-Hop Artist
Musician
Rapper
Record Producer
Singer
Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Jaime Meline
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Everything
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Life
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Oh my god what am I doing with my 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'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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I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.
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I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.
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We're not steadfast about not repeating mistakes.
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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 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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We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.
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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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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'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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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 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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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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Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.
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As you get bigger, your staff gets bigger, and your costs get bigger.
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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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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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