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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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El-P
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: March 2
Hip-Hop Artist
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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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As you get bigger, your staff gets bigger, and your costs get bigger.
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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 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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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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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 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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So inane-I cause Colon Blow pain
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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's a responsibility as a musician to do the music that you want to hear.
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I believe that if you're an artist, it's like a gift. If you can do this for a living and you can be involved in it, it's something that you can't ignore. It's the chance for you to have a voice and create something from yourself.
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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 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'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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Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.
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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'm trying to consciously evolve myself. I have no delusions of grandeur.
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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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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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