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. El-P More Quotes by El-P More Quotes From El-P Darkness does not truly have sway. I think that it's weak. El-P i-think think darkness weak I believe that experimenting is what production is. But it doesn't mean much if you don't have a solid foundation in what you're experimenting with. You can't really deviate from music unless you know music; it's not gonna work. El-P you music work believe I literally have a massive database of cat sounds. El-P database literally sounds cat Just because I run an indie label doesn't mean I don't think Jay-Z is nice. El-P just-because run think nice The thing I love about music is, if you do it long enough, you get better and better at translating what's in your head to a medium. That's why I keep doing it. El-P you music love long We all want recognition and validation to an extent for our art, but greatness as a trade for decency is a risky proposition. In my life, I try to leave the people I encounter with the feeling that they have been respected and treated with warmth and appreciation. El-P my-life appreciation life art I'm a believer in air bags. El-P bags believer air It's pretty cool being 40 and having your blow-up moment. El-P your being cool moment There's a lot of pretense out there. It can be exhausting. When people see something genuine, even if it's something as simple as two people actually being friends, actually enjoying what they're doing, or actually standing up for each other, that translates in a big way. El-P friends simple people way Run the Jewels, our role is this: We can provide some music and some swagger in the face of doom and in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. El-P face some run music I like Das Racist, and so should you. El-P like you should I work on a musician's week, so Monday is Friday. By the time Thursday rolls around, you stay in, and you work, and you don't go out because it's horrible. El-P you monday work time My videogame mind died after they stopped making wonderful escape worlds - every game just turned into me training to be in the army. But I used to love the Oddworld and 'Abe's Exoddus' and 'Abe's Oddysee' for Playstation. El-P game me mind love I really want to produce a record for Mary J. Blige. El-P record really mary want I just don't believe in making music about making music anymore. El-P about just music believe I don't believe in collaboration necessarily for collaboration's sake, but I will do it, and sometimes it's great. El-P great collaboration sometimes believe I don't necessarily think the way people do, but that's not my problem. My problem is not to reinforce or destroy any ideas anyone might have about me, how I do what I do, what my intentions are, the way that I do it. My only job, as far as I can see, is to do the music that I want to do. El-P job me music people
