El-P – Cancer4Cure

im amazed this hasnt popped up earlier.  i brought this up to stretch and bob around 94 (93? 95?) for them to play.  every couple of years i google it to no results.  now, finally, its resurfaced and got people talking.  to understand how it got in to my hands to be produced i have to go back and explain some of my history.  im going to keep it as brief and to the point as possible.

El-P – Time Won’t Tell (Nocando Remix)

Central Services (Camu Tao and EL-P) – Forever Frozen In Television Time EP

this is a song off the upcoming CENTRAL SERVICES EP “FOREVER FROZEN IN TELEVISION TIME”. it was recorded in early 2005 and was never released. the EP will be given away for free in conjunction with the CAMU TAO album “KING OF HEARTS” which drops on august 3rd on DEF JUX/FAT POSSUM.

lyrics:

i want a crazy girl all in my life
theres a new drug that id like to try
theres a fast car that i’d like to drive
god should give me the power to change your minds

but the cops are knocking at my door
the bills scattered all on my floor
but the cops are knocking at my door
the bills scattered all on my floor

theres a new sex position that i wanna try
cause these girls got my brain fucked in my mind
dont forget this shit baby
keep it in mind
god should give me the power to just change your mind
come on god give it to me

theres the cops knocking at my door
the bills scattered all on my floor
theres the cops knocking at my door
there’s bills scattered on my floor

something change your life
something that you wanna try
fuck this shit baby,
cause lifes a crime
god should give me the power to just change your mind

i changed my mind
fuck this shit baby,
while we’re on the subject i apologize
god should give me the power to just change your mind

theres something that you might buy
fuck this shit baby
lifes a crime
god should give you the power to just change your mind

you should do yourself a favor and take your life
put a gun to your head and just close your eyes
dont do that shit you crazy?
everything thing i said was a lie
im ready for the handcuffs come on copper give me a ride

now the coppers knocking at my door
the bills scattered on my floor
and the coppers knocking at my door
the bills scattered all on my floor

Justin Bieber – Baby (El-P Death Mix)

says El-P:

im gonna be honest, i was a little surprised at the amount of profanity @justinbieber had me include in this remix, but hey its his shit.

Link

Luke Fox loves rap music. And when Fox writes about rap, he’s not musing about poetry. He’s also not adoringly worshipping idols. He simply loves the music, and he asks the questions someone who loves the music would ask. Talking to and about Ice-T, Nas, Jay-Z, Ludacris, Gang Starr, Kanye West, El-P, MF Doom, Kool G Rap, Common, and dead prez, Fox takes on the egos and the attitudes, connecting the past with the present, the pop with the peculiar. In these eleven candid interviews, Fox not only presents a small chunk of his extensive freelance career, he paints a coherent portrait of hip-hop at a crossroads, before and after the millennium.

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The Crypt: RIP Def Jux

ugsmag: R.I.P. Def Jux?

Shabooty: Def Jux Has Folded

update: El-P speaks, er, writes: Of Hooptys and Hovercrafts

In 2000 starting a traditional record label made a lot of sense. But now, in 2010, less so and I find myself yearning for something else to put my energy into. I also see newer, smarter, more interesting things on the horizon for the way art and commerce intersect, and as an artist and an entrepreneur, I’m eager to see them unfold.

Matt Newton revisits a common theme we discuss around here, how the lack of sampling has affected the music. He gets some good new commentary from Rza, El-P and Eothen Alapatt.

RZA believes sampling needs to be regulated, starting with standardized fees and government oversight. Producers often have to give 50 to 100 percent of any publishing revenue to the original artist they’re sampling. RZA would like to see a new system where the publishing is equally split between the new producer and original artist, and in which session players from the initial recording even get paid again. “All this publishing was taken away from the artists,” he says, “and that kind of raped the hip- hop industry.” But not everyone in the industry shares his opinion.

“Not all samples are equal,” says Monica Corton, a vice president at Next Decade Entertainment. Corton, whose company represents catalogs from soul and R&B artists like Millie Jackson and Joe Simon, has licensed samples to Young Jeezy, Redman, and Pharoahe Monch. “Some people put the sampled work so out front that it dominates the song,” she says, “while others use a small portion that is not as evident.”

But according to Carr, dwindling profits across the industry have label executives searching for ways to maximize existing revenue sources. “Some of the majors have realized if they want to collect money on smaller things, they need to quote smaller figures [for samples],” she says. Lots of artists want to be honest about what they’re sampling, “but they can’t afford it.”

But until some sort of universal decision is made, more and more hip-hop artists will likely go the Kanye route and continue to blur the lines of traditional hip-hop by relying on electronic production. “Right now, without sampling in hip-hop,” RZA says, “it’s really a soggy-ass form of music.”

Read: Is Sampling Dead?
via ugsmag

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sometimes i find myself reading interviews i’ve done and think “wow i really came off like a cool, smart and honest guy in that there interview! i’m the best!”then i read the comments (if the interview is online) or the letters in the next months issue (if in a mag) and realize that about 50% of the people who read that there interview thought i came off like an arrogant, flippant prick. the first 1000 times i told myself that my particular style of cunning and insightful dry wit which is combined with a zesty dose self mockery and then splashed with a hair of good old fashioned fuck you all swagger simply just didn’t always translate as well as i would like to the written word. then i realized something. it doesn’t translate that well to life, either. and its made me realize that there is always a chance for a man to search deeply in to his heart and… god dammit lady shut your fucking baby up already im trying to blog here! what was i saying?