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We're not steadfast about not repeating mistakes.
El-P
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El-P
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 2
Hip-Hop Artist
Musician
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Brooklyn
New York
Jaime Meline
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I've never had a huge collection of records I've never been a beat digga.
El-P
Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.
El-P
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
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
Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.
El-P
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.
El-P
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
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.
El-P
As you get bigger, your staff gets bigger, and your costs get bigger.
El-P
I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.
El-P
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
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.
El-P
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
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
Everyone just wants to feel good, and I don't think that all music is designed to make you feel good.
El-P
I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.
El-P
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.
El-P
There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.
El-P
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
Oh my god what am I doing with my life?
El-P
