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  El-P and Nick Diamonds Form Stepson, Serve Up 'Movie Tit'

  November 30, 2012 – Some musicians go it alone or stay with the band that made them until the bitter end. Others are born restless, and those rōnin warriors all seem to find each other on a long enough timeline. El-P and Nick Diamonds are two such dudes, and they've just released their first song as Stepson. The former, of course, has experienced a career renaissance this year, having produced the SPIN Essential-stamped Killer Mike album R.A.P. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Lil Wayne Ain't Crazy, He Just Thinks Our Justice System Is Nuts

  September 29, 2012 – <p>That <a href="http://www.spin.com/articles/lil-wayne-court-amnesia-threaten-lawyer-qui... of Lil Wayne's deposition</a> getting lots of LOLs isn't evidence that he's lost his marbles. It's proof of the American legal system's absurdity, and that Wayne is painfully aware of this fact. …
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  El-P Slams CNN for Tacking Ads to Batman Shootings News

  July 24, 2012 – Never one to stay quiet when there's something to get riled up about, El-P hit Twitter over the weekend to voice his discontent with CNN. …
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  Coachella Cruise Confirmed: Pulp, Hot Chip Hitting High Seas

  July 17, 2012 – Instead of launching a third weekend of its annual Indio fest, Coachella will take its increasingly wild party to the high seas. Today organizers announced (ahead of its previously scheduled 6 p.m. PDT deadline) via Twitter the inaugural S.S. …
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  Watch EL-P, Linkin Park, Gaslight Anthem, and the Jacksons Shake Up Late Night

  June 28, 2012 – Yesterday was the kind of day you could find veteran MC El-P collaborating with a Jedi-hooded Zola Jesus on one late-night show, and LMFAO spitting a ridiculous tune about spin class on another. …
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  Watch El-P and Puppet Pal Go Berserk in 'The Full Retard' Video

  May 30, 2012 – Fresh off releasing his fantastic, damaging third album, Cancer for Cure and dispensing some amazing advice to SPIN, rapper El-P unleashed his illest work yet, the insane video for "The Full Retard." Directed by Timothy Saccenti, the clip shows the adventures of El with his chain smoking, pill-popping, beer-chugging, egg-raiding, trash-chucking, coke-snorting, hooker-propositioning squirrel(?) friend. …
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  El-P's Life Advice: Be Wrong, Stop Beefing, and Sample Freely

  May 24, 2012 – Leading "independent as fuck" space-junkmen Company Flow, managing the mighty Definitive Jux label, and releasing three bloodletting solo records, producer-MC El-P has remained underground hip-hop's premier monopoly buster and chaos technician. His latest, Cancer for Cure (Fat Possum), is his most intense album yet, matching stuttering drum pileups and polysyllabic cluster bombs against Reznor-ready confessionals and humid droid noise. …
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  El-P, 'Cancer for Cure' (Fat Possum)

  May 16, 2012 – El-P occupies a singular perch. The Brooklyn rapper-producer has never sounded quite like anyone else, not even in the late 1990s, when the Sasquatch thumps and xylophone flows of his Company Flow crew birthed a generation of similar-minded travelers, spawned the hugely successful independent label Definitive Jux, and briefly transformed the hip-hop underground into a land of no-wave art-jazz and super-scientifical theorizing. …
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  El-P Performs Fiery 'Stay Down,' Shouts Out MCA on 'Letterman'

  May 16, 2012 – El-P's visit to Late Show With David Letterman last night could hardly have arrived at a more auspicious moment for the skronky New York hip-hop stalwart. The same day also saw the release of R.A.P. Music, the tremendously inspired new album by Atlanta rap veteran Killer Mike, which El-P produced. …
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  Killer Mike, 'R.A.P. Music' (Williams Street)

  May 15, 2012 – R.A.P. Music, the sixth album by from Atlanta firebrand Killer Mike, is a stunning anachronism. …
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