El-P 6/13/17

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2017

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Brian Koppelman is joined by El-P to discuss his musical development and growing up in New York City. Best known as one half of Run The Jewels, El-P has been producing and rapping for decades, first as part of Company Flow and then as a solo artist and producer on albums like Cannibal Ox’s The Cold Vein, Killer Mike’s R.A.P. Music, and his solo albums Fantastic Damage and Cancer 4 Cure. They discuss how El-P got into hip-hop, high school delinquency, achieving massive success, and finding his place in music. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:04.0	Hey, this is the moment.
0:10.0	I'm Brian compliment.
0:12.0	Thanks for listening.
0:13.0	Super psyched. Today's guest LP is someone who makes records that I really really give a shit about.
0:21.0	And with his partner, Killer Mike, as Run the Jules. Before that, under his own name,
0:28.4	he's also a producer, produces his records, produces the run the jewels,
0:32.8	produced one of my favorite albums of all time,
0:36.9	which is an album simply called Rap Music by Killer Mike.
0:41.1	And really did a, I think in that that year you did something really remarkable that you made these two albums that are
0:47.6	Classics yours cancer procure and rap music and also I think people might not know this but you really contributed to the sound of billions
1:00.3	in a big way because the first episode of the show you and I were talking about you
1:07.1	maybe scoring the show that's right but you were going on the first big RTJ tour and I remember just being like this is never really going to be something that's possible.
1:17.0	I mean, you know, I wanted to do it, I did, you know, because of you and because it just seemed really cool. You'd be amazed at how many things don't happen because I'm going on or
1:27.3	RTJ.
1:28.3	In my life. You waited a long time to have the RTJ thing.
1:32.0	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:33.4	It's understandable.
1:34.4	But it's true.
1:35.5	We did use these tracks.
1:37.0	I mean, you introduced me to Despits music
1:39.5	and know there's this huge desperate track in there.
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