El-P Quotes About Hip Hop

Quotes about: Hip Hop

• So inane-I cause Colon Blow pain

  El-P

  Pain, Blow, Hip Hop

• 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.

  El-P

  Rocks, People, Hip Hop

  Source: www.avclub.com

• For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the fly new beat. I can't sit still; I have no nostalgia. I don't have to have nostalgia.

  El-P

  Fashion, Growing Up, Hip Hop

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  El-P

  Moving, Always Trying, Hip Hop

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  El-P

  Hip Hop, Eras, Hips

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Change is a direct element of hip-hop. That's the whole thing with style.

  El-P

  Hip Hop, Style, Elements

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

• 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

  Independent, Hip Hop, Hips

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

• My father was a musician, and I've always loved writing. I grew up in New York City during a time when hip hop music was surrounding you with the hip hop culture, and it felt natural. I was a really huge fan of the music.

  El-P

  New York, Father, Writing

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I think that people have been claiming hip-hop as being dead since the moment it started. I think there are people - and I can be included in that category sometimes - that get frustrated feeling like maybe the industry has handcuffed itself, or trained its artists to do or think about music in a way that classically hasn't led to the greatest records in hip-hop.

  El-P

  Artist, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Rap, Hip Hop, Style

  Source: thequietus.com

• I don't think hip-hop is a dying art form. I think it's impossible for hip-hop to be a dying art form.

  El-P

  Art, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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.

  El-P

  Hip Hop, Trying, Next Steps

  Interview with Sam Chennault, pitchfork.com. August 1, 2002.

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