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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
Singer
Songwriter
Brooklyn
New York
Jaime Meline
Steadfast
Repeating
Mistakes
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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 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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Just when you think you should start accepting that you're becoming an adult, all your childhood fantasies come true.
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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 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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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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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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I've never had a huge collection of records I've never been a beat digga.
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I'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.
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We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.
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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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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 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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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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So inane-I cause Colon Blow pain
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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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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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As you get bigger, your staff gets bigger, and your costs get bigger.
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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 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.
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