Showing All "El-P" Posts
Dec 12th, 2012 1 Comment
Earlier this year, A-Trak released his single "Piss Test," a dance-inflected drug-rap banger that featured Danny Brown and Juicy J. And now, on the Fool's Gold compilation Loosies, A-Trak gives us…   Read Story »
Nov 30th, 2012 1 Comment
El-P and Islands' Nick Diamonds are no stranger to collaboration -- most recently, see "Stay Down" from El's excellent Cancer For Cure, or that screengrab above from their joint stop by Letterman's…   Read Story »
Nov 12th, 2012 3 Comments
The one proper album released by Cannibal Ox -- 2001's The Cold Vein -- stands as one of the best hip-hop albums of the aughts, and maybe the best album ever released on El-P's Definitive Jux label.…   Read Story »
Oct 30th, 2012 Comment
Early next year, Ill Bill, late of the paranoiac Brooklyn rap crew Non Phixion, will release a new album with the dumb-amazing title The Grimy Awards. The album's list of guests is wide enough to…   Read Story »
Oct 19th, 2012 9 Comments
Virtually the entire music-blogging universe (except me) is at CMJ right now, so you'll have to forgive the indie music universe for neglecting to drop too many videos in the past seven days. I…   Read Story »
Oct 15th, 2012 2 Comments
"Stay Down" is the awesomely discordant Nick Diamonds collab from El-P's great recent album Cancer For Cure. Diamonds isn't in the song's video, but TV On The Radio's Jaleel Bunton steps in, playing…   Read Story »
Jul 24th, 2012 1 Comment
Once again, Nardwuar continues his improbable but ridiculously fun run of giving densely prepared nerd-out interviews with rappers. His latest target: El-P, who meets Nardwuar backstage at his…   Read Story »
Jul 12th, 2012 Comment
As rap supergroup Slaughterhouse -- Joe Budden, Crooked I, Joell Ortiz and Royce da 5'9'' -- pres their second studio album for late summer release, here's a remix of their recent single "Hammer…   Read Story »
Jul 3rd, 2012 20 Comments
On 4/26, almost a month before the official release date of his new album, Cancer 4 Cure, El-P posted the following message on his Facebook wall:
elephant in the room: i know a lot of yall already…   Read Story »
Jun 28th, 2012 1 Comment
El-P is a man who knows how to seize his moment. So when he rolled through Conan last night to promote his album of the year contender Cancer For Cure, he didn't just bark out a song with a couple of…   Read Story »
































