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El-P Biography

Jaime Meline (born March 2, 1975), better known by his stage name El-P (shortened from El Producto), is an American rapper, record producer, and record executive. Originally a member of Company Flow, El-P has been a major driving force in alternative hip hop for more than two decades, producing for several notable rappers such as Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, and Cage, among others.

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I'm a pretty intense person. And I don't know if intense is fun. I put myself through the wringer. That's just how I work.

Fun, Intense, Persons, Pretty, Wringer

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.

Art, Thinking, Age, Young, Outsider, Think

Hip-hop is always moving. It's always looking for the next style; it's always trying to one-up the last person.

Always Trying, Hip Hop, Looking, Moving, Person

I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.

Approached, Artist, Existence, Labels, Years

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.

Came, Creation, Hip Hop, People, Rocks, Sounds

My favorite era of hip-hop was between '85-'89. That was the era that got me to love hip-hop.

Era, Eras, Favorite, Hip Hop, Hips, Love

I'm not trying to change the face of hip-hop music. I'm trying to make my records and always take the next step for me.

Change, Hip Hop, Make, Music, Next Steps, Trying

I've never had a huge collection of records; I've never been a beat digga.

Beat, Beats, Collection, Collections, Digga, Records

I'm not really one of these people who's been known for particularly hopeful sentiments.

People, Hopeful, Sentiments

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.

Different, Drives, Maybe, People, Struggle

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.

Boring, Make, Reflective, Trying, What Matters, Who I Am

My whole mode is to do what I want to do and let people understand me through that.

Mode, People, Understand, Understand Me, Want

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.

Thinking, Things Change, Grew Up, Metamorphosizes, Grew, Think

We're not steadfast about not repeating mistakes.

Mistake, Mistakes, Repeating, Steadfast

Any issue and any problem, no matter what height you look at it from, no matter how much you extend past the first fractal, it's still a fractal of something that emanates from within your consciousness - from within the human consciousness. And it'll move on and manifest itself externally, and then those are what we pick up as societal ills. But all these battles we're fighting are internal. For me, it's reconciling hope with dread and trying to cut out some place in my mind where my heart can be protected a little bit.

Battles, Cut, Fighting, Heart, Look, Moving

At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't music, it would have been writing, or it would have been maybe painting. I just always had the drive to try and make something with my hands and to just pull something out of myself and shape it and see it in front of me, if that makes any sense.

Age, Hands, Music, Sort, Writing

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.

Attempting, Eloquent, Embarrassed, Human, Translation, Way

I think that every record label has its trials and tribulations, its ups and downs. The only thing you can do is hope to recognize what it is that makes you great, and to try and continue to capture it.

Downs, Hope, Labels, Thinking, Trying, Ups

The worst part is that if you become part of a major - all these independent labels become farm teams for your corporate parent. Basically, you do all the work for years, blowing up an artist - you discover them, blow them up, you build their fan base. And then that artist is like, "Okay, now I'm here. Now I want more. I want to be bigger. " And you're either going to be able to accommodate them, you're going to be able to figure out how to take that step with them, or you're going to lose them.

Artist, Become, Independent, Labels, Team, Work

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.

Bored, Change, People, Production, Structure, Trying

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