1. El-P was a member of The Weathermen and was the co-founder, owner, and CEO of the Definitive Jux record label.
25 Facts About El-P
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El-P was born Jaime Meline in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on March 2,1975, the son of Nan Dillon and jazz pianist Harry Meline.
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El-P's parents divorced when he was seven years old, and he later wrote the song "Last Good Sleep" about once hearing his mother being assaulted by his drunken stepfather in the next room and not realizing what had happened until the next day.
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El-P was expelled from two high schools for various issues, including his refusal to stop wearing his baseball cap backwards.
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El-P went to musical engineering school at the Center for the Media Arts in Manhattan.
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El-P decided to start his own record label, Definitive Jux, and because of critically acclaimed albums such as Cannibal Ox's The Cold Vein and Aesop Rock's Labor Days, the label rose to prominence.
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Company Flow dissolved amicably in 2001 and the following year El-P released his debut solo album Fantastic Damage, to critical acclaim.
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In 2004, El-P collaborated with the Blue Series Continuum for a jazz-fusion album titled High Water, which received favorable reviews from both hip hop and jazz critics, as well as from more mainstream critics independent of both scenes.
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In October 2009, El-P announced that he was working on his third studio album, titled Cancer 4 Cure.
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El-P was a part of a group called Central Services, which consisted of El-P, Camu Tao, and Allysin Baker.
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Later that month, El-P released a single off the upcoming album, via the Adult Swim Singles program, titled "Drones Over BKLYN".
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On February 22,2012, El-P announced on his Facebook page that Cancer 4 Cure was complete.
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El-P has contributed productions and guest rhymes to albums by Aesop Rock, Evil Nine, DJ Krush, Murs, Cage, Mr Lif, Prefuse 73, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Mike Ladd, The High and Mighty, Jedi Mind Tricks, Aceyalone, Atmosphere, Techno Animal, and Das Racist.
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El-P collaborated with Alec Empire on the first Handsome Boy Modeling School album and with Cage and Chino Moreno on the second.
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El-P was selected, along with DJ Shadow and Trent Reznor, to work on Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha's solo album.
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El-P produced The Veils album Total Depravity, with the song Axolotl later appearing in David Lynch's new series of Twin Peaks.
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El-P has provided remixes for the likes of Beans, Beck, Blackalicious, Head Automatica, Hot Hot Heat, Dizzee Rascal, Syd Matters, Nine Inch Nails, Push Button Objects, Rob Sonic, TV on the Radio, Lorde, and Yasushilde, among others.
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El-P provided the soundtrack for the graffiti film Bomb the System.
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El-P was the principal composer for the 2005 film Bomb the System.
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El-P called the track "an homage to one of my biggest influences Philip Glass".
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El-P was one of the candidates to score a trailer for 2017's Blade Runner 2049, but his score was "rejected or ignored".
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El-P later worked again with Trank and created the score for the 2020 biopic Capone.
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El-P's rapping style is characterized by dense, aggressive, and verbose attacks that include heavy use of metaphors, sci-fi fantasy themes, pop culture references, and associative wordplay.
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El-P's 2004 album High Water was a radical departure, pitting his beats and production against a jazz band under the direction of pianist Matthew Shipp, a fan of El-P's music.
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El-P began dating comedian and musician Emily Panic in 2010, and they married in October 2018.
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