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We're not steadfast about not repeating mistakes.

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El-P
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 2
Hip-Hop Artist
Musician
Rapper
Record Producer
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Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Jaime Meline
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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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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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As you get bigger, your staff gets bigger, and your costs get bigger.
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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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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.
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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 been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.
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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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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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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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I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.
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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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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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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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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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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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There's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.
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