In news that is probably unexpected but no less sad for the hip-hop and pop music world,El-Phas released an official statement on the rumors of the de...
El-Pand HEALTH putting new twists on tracks like Young Jeezy's "I Got You" and OJ Da Juiceman's "Good Night." The songs were all remixed using Timbala...
series' third installment, El-P's"Megamixxx" projects served as compilations of unreleased tracks that were left on the cutting room floor for whateve...
Nick Diamonds, whose real last name is Thorburn, has built up quite the resume over the years. Known most for fronting Islands, he's also played a cru...
Mike Bigga FKA Killer Mike will be coming up to the XXL offices this afternoon (March 30) along with underground rapper/producer El-P for a live inter...
Tweet This is one of those things that's so weird/random that we wouldn't have believed it if, say, one of our friends was like, "Yo, did you hear tha...
Tweet Over the weekend, El-P and Killer Mike announced via their respective Twitter accounts that we would finally be hearing the first track from the...
For a long time now, we've heard rumblings about a new collaborative album from badass Atlanta rap snarler Killer Mike and New York skronk-rap king El...
Tweet As we reported last August, El-P signed with Fat Possum to release his next album, which was then tentatively titled Cancer For Cure. Well, he's...
The legendary New York skronk-rap MC/producer and occasional Company Flow figurehead El-P hasn't released a proper non-instrumental solo album since I...
Tweet Photo gallery of Coachella artist portraits and crowd through weekend 2 (April 20-22, 2012). Artists Featured: The Black Lips, Borgore, Datsik, ...
The rattling skronk-rap godfather El-P returns next month with the long-awaited solo album Cancer For Cure, which runs a very good chance of being fuc...
Tweet El-P's fifth studio album, Cancer For Cure drops on May 21. Today, El Producto released a second teaser trailer featuring a bug-like drone being...
Tweet If you heard the songs released before this stream was made available--"Big Beast" and "JoJo's Chillin" among them--there's a chance you've got ...
Brooklyn producer and rapper El-P is set to perform with Nick Thorburn of Islands on The Late Show with David Letterman tomorrow. El-P and Thorburn ar...
At this point, it's pretty expected for every big indie rock type to make the late-night rounds whenever a new record drops. But there's still a trans...
El-P, the rapper/producer most responsible for the past decade and a half of skronky, chaotic underground rap, is on a serious tear lately. He produce...
Once upon a time, I hated Company Flow. Their music sounded like rap as rigid noise-attack, all funless bellowing and construction-site clang. El-P's ...
Once upon a time, I hated Company Flow. Their music sounded like rap as rigid noise-attack, all funless bellowing and construction-site clang. El-P's ...
In the video for "The Full Retard," the intensely banging first single from El-P's excellent new Cancer For Cure album, El and a ratty squirrel puppet...
Tweet So, mixtapes. You hear about at least one every day, right? Right. But not many of those mixtapes feature a bunch of great tracks from a bunch o...
Tweet El-P, or the man who killed May with two superb releases, is set to play Conan this Wednesday. He'll be performing in support of Cancer 4 Cure, ...
El-P's star has truly risen in 2012. Following the successful releases of Killer Mike's R.A.P. Music (which El-P produced) and his latest solo effort ...
Tweet Paul Banks from Interpol and Islands' Nick Thorburn feature on the new El-P album Cancer 4 Cure, and the Def Jux label head added a new collabor...
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...
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: elep...
As rap supergroup Slaughterhouse -- Joe Budden, Crooked I, Joell Ortiz and Royce da 5'9" -- pres their second studio album for late summer release, he...
Once again, Nardwuar continues his improbable but ridiculously fun run of giving densely prepared nerd-out interviews with rappers. His latest target:...
Tweet Jabee may be a new name to most, but the Oklahoma native impressed NYC mainstay El-P enough to earn some opening spots on his Into The Wild tour...
"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 T...
with the dumb-amazing title The Grimy Awards. The album's list of guests is wide enough to include fellow veteran backpack-rap head-knockers like Jedi...
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 screen...
"feel like i wont get a good nights sleep until i know for sure that staples center is going vegetarian for morrissey. in order its the staples center...
recruited a deep, wide, and fascinating lineup of collaborators. In director Shomi Patwary's new video for the remix, almost all of them show up, look...
A-Trak's "Piss Test" remix from Fool's Gold's Loosies comp features Juicy J, Jim Jones, Flatbush Zombies, El-P, and Flosstradamus. The video, directed...
This year's Pitchfork Music Festival will take place July 19-21 in Chicago's Union Park. In addition to the previously announced headliners R. Kelly, ...
It's another big win for hip-hop as El-P and Killer Mike grace the stage for Letterman. During their performance last night, the duo performed "Untitl...
Killer Mike has always been an absolute animal of a live rapper, and he's usually done it with a minimal mic-plus-DJ setup. Last night on the Late Sho...
Last night, Killer Mike took to "Letterman" to perform his R.A.P. Music cut, "Untitled". He was joined by El-P and Scar. Watch below, followed by an e...
El-P produced two of last year's best rap albums: His own Cancer For Cure and Killer Mike's R.A.P. Music. El and Mike are good friends and frequent co...
Run the Jewels: "Banana Clipper" (snippet) (via SoundCloud) El-P and Killer Mike are turning their long-time collaboration (El-P produced all of R.A.P...
Today, Pitchfork.tv presents a new episode of "Over/Under", the interview series in which artists evaluate a series of random topics, declaring if the...
El-P produced Killer Mike's excellent 2012 album R.A.P. Music, and Killer Mike showed up on El-P's excellent 2012 album Cancer For Cure. And now, that...
El-P produced Killer Mike's excellent 2012 album R.A.P. Music, and Killer Mike showed up on El-P's excellent 2012 album Cancer For Cure. And now, that...
Run the Jewels: "Get It" (via SoundCloud) Rap's favorite pair of best friends El-P and Killer Mike have shared a new collaborative track recorded as p...
Run the Jewels: "Banana Clipper" [ft. Big Boi] As Miss Info points out, here's "Banana Clipper", a new song from El-P and Killer Mike's Run the Jewels...
Killer Mike and El-P will cement their long-time collaborative friendship more formally with a (free) joint album under the name Run the Jewels. It wi...
Run the Jewels: "36 Chain" [dirty version] (via SoundCloud) Killer Mike and El-P's free joint album under the name Run the Jewels is due June 26 via F...
an unconventional, maximalist production aesthetic and for being the most reputable pseudo-backpack rapper in the five boroughs. El and Mike's recent,...