El-P
Hometown: BROOKLYN, US
Tags: hip-hop, hip hop, underground hip-hop
El-P is a rapper and producer from Brooklyn, New York. He used to be in a group called Company Flow which put out some records that people liked. He started a record label called Definitive Jux which put out a bunch of other records people liked. He has released three solo rap albums, a jazz album, five instrumental albums, and has been on TV a bunch of times. He has produced records for many people. He has performed for many people.
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Okayplayer Best 2012 on El-P
about 2 hours ago#7 Of all the notable qualities that make El-P‘s Cancer 4 Cure a 2012 stand-out–articulate anger, unrelentingly original beats, post-apocalyptic anxieties–impeccable timing has to be counted near the top of the list...full article here
Pitchfork Best 2012 on El-P
6 days ago#45 El-P's 2012 collaboration with Killer Mike, R.A.P. Music, was the hard left hook to the jaw, but his solo record Cancer for Cure was the body blow-- the one that rumbled your guts, left you sickened and confused. Solitude has always suited El-P, and on this record, he emerged from it with a record so dense and internal that it was impossible to discern the hum of the machines from the hum of his mind...full article here
Pop Matters Best 2012 on El-P
14 days ago#35 Any performer with Oscar ambitions should “never go full retard”, warns Robert Downey Jr.‘s Kirk Lazarus in 2008’s Tropic Thunder. Prestige culture was the target, but outcry from disability activists was the response, leading to pickets and memes before reemerging as lead single “The Full Retard” of El-P’s Cancer 4 Cure...full article here
Pretty Much Amazing Best 2012 on El-P
14 days ago#20 Cancer For Cure opens with a sample of William S. Burroughs reading his 1961 novel, The Soft Machine, and I doubt there could be a more appropriate author for El Producto to invoke. full article here
Spinner Best of 2012 on El-P
3 months ago#33 Dedicated to his late friend Camu Tao, El-P's latest bursts with anger and defiance in its rhymes and beats...full article here
Sputnikmusic on El-P
3 months ago#13 El-Producto has shaped the very foundation of my music tastes throughout nearly every genre...full article here
Stereogum Best of 2012 on El-P
3 months ago#15 Cancer For Cure (Fat Possum)
Treble Best of 2012 on El-P
4 months ago#22 A little over two years ago, when El-P announced that he was dissolving Definitive Jux in order to focus on his own music and production work, it seemed that his future was uncertain...full article here
TheOwlMag on El-P
4 months agoArtist: El-P Album: I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead Label: Definitive Jux Genre: Rap/Hip Hop Rating: Buy it >>
Imagine if El-P were a comic book superhero. Which would he be? He could be just about any of the postmodern comic heroes who possess amazing gifts to make positive change on the world, but can’t get their mind right in order to fight their own manic tendencies. With power comes great responsibility, and El-Producto completely lets loose irresponsibly in classic form without claim.
El-P is hands down one of the most original cats in the hip-hop game and shows all his cards all the time. The honesty of his words is his super strength, but it’s also his krypto. Fortunately for us listeners, it’s the truth we crave and the reason why we appreciate his voice in the game. Too bad for him, but his honesty leaves his ass bare in the wind for everyone to look at. He’s an interesting bum, however. El-P drops mad crazy flows in ways over beats that are completely unprecedented. Not to mention the aesthetics and delivery, the personality behind it is fresh and deep, like a sci-fi apocalypse cosmo twist.
- Review submitted by Grant Inaba.
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5 months agoEl-P "The Full Retard" more at hiphopdx.com
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6 months agoEl-P "Smithereens (Stop Cryin)" more at hiphopdx.com
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6 months agoEl-P "Meanstreak Instrumental [In 3 Parts]" more at hiphopdx.com
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6 months agoEl-P "Lab Rat Bravely Escapes On Hovercraft Only To Crash Directly Outside Of Gates" more at hiphopdx.com
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6 months agoEl-P "Drones Over Brooklyn [Prod. El-P]" more at hiphopdx.com
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6 months agoEl-P "Rush Over Brooklyn" more at hiphopdx.com
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6 months agoEl-P "The Full Retard" more at hiphopdx.com
Buzz Bands LA on El-P
7 months agoHere are your Thursday things: ► Indie hip-hop standout El-P visits Check Yo Ponytail at the Echoplex behind his first solo album in five years, "Cancer for Cure," joined by Killer Mike and more. ► U.K. funk-soul outfit the Heavy , with its third album "The Glorious Dead" coming in August [ here's a sample ], plays the Bootleg Bar supported by the Skins and Wake Up Lucid. ► Justin Townes Earle, touring in support of his March release "Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now," headlines the more here
Pitchfork Best Albums on El-P
9 months agoAlbum "Cancer for Cure" scored 8.5
El-P's first album since putting Def Jux on hiatus in early 2010 marks a break from the old order and another call to arms. Dark, heavy, and richly rendered, Cancer 4 Cure is both reinvention and in...
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