El-P Discography
El-P's early career and rise to prominence was as part of Company Flow, formed in 1992, consisting of El-P, Mr. Len, Bigg Jus. Following the break-up of the group, El-P started his own record label, Definitive Jux. El-P produced early records from the label, including Cannibal Ox's critically acclaimed The Cold Vein and his own debut solo album, Fantastic Damage. El-P released his second solo album, I'll Sleep When You're Dead, in 2007.
El-P has contributed as producer and guest vocalist to albums by artists such as DJ Krush, Aesop Rock, Murs, Cage, Mr. Lif, Prefuse 73, Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Mike Ladd, and Atmosphere, among many others. He collaborated with Alec Empire on the first Handsome Boy Modeling School album and with Cage and Chino Moreno on the second. El-P also provided the soundtrack for the graffiti film Bomb the System.
Albums
Studio albums
Year Title Peak chart positions Notes US US R&B US Heat. US Ind. US Int. 2002 Fantastic Damage - Released: May 14, 2002
- Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #27)
198 82 9 14 — 2007 I'll Sleep When You're Dead - Released: March 20, 2007
- Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #137)
78 55 — 6 78 2012 Cancer 4 Cure - Released: May 22, 2012
- Label: Fat Possum Records
71 7 — 15 — "—" denotes releases that did not chart.
Instrumental albums
Year Title US Ind. peak Notes 2002 El-P Presents Cannibal
Oxtrumentals- Released: March 19, 2002
- Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #24)
— - Instrumental version of The Cold Vein by Cannibal Ox (2001).
FanDam Plus - Released: October 1, 2002
- Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #39)
— - Instrumental version of Fantastic Damage.
- Also includes a second disc with remixes, lyrics, and video footage.
2004 High Water - Released: March 9, 2004
- Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
46 - Made in conjunction with jazz pianist Matthew Shipp and The Blue Series Continuum.
Collecting the Kid - Released: October 19, 2004
- Label: Definitive Jux (DJX #99)
— - Limited-edition album collecting instrumentals from various side projects such as High Water, Bomb the System soundtrack, and Central Services.
2010 Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixx3 - Label: Gold Dust
— - Third installment in the Weareallgoingtoburninhellmeggamixx series.
2020 Capone (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Label: Milan Records
— - Original score to the Josh Trank film
"—" denotes releases that did not chart.
Miscellaneous
Year Title Notes 2001 Shards of Pol-Pottery
(with Alec Empire)- Label: Digital Hardcore
Recordings
- Extended play featuring a re-production of the song "Megaton B-Boy" from the 1999
Handsome Boy Modelling School album So... How's Your Girl?. - Features 12 versions of the song, including remixes, instrumentals, and an
a cappella.
2003 Weareallgoingtoburninhell - Label: Definitive Jux
- Mixtape sold only at shows, by the New York native shortly after September 11, 2001.
2008 Weareallgoingtoburninhellmegamixx2 - Label: Definitive Jux
- Label: Digital Hardcore
Singles
Year Title Album 2001 "Stepfather Factory" Definitive Jux Presents II / Fantastic Damage 2002 "Deep Space 9mm" Fantastic Damage "Dead Disnee" "Truancy" "Remix'd" FanDam Plus "Dead Light" N/A 2003 "Sunrise Over Bklyn" High Water 2004 "Jukie Skate Rock" Collecting the Kid 2006 "Everything Must Go" I'll Sleep When You're Dead 2007 "Smithereens" "Flyentology" 2012 "The Full Retard" Cancer 4 Cure
Guest appearances
Year Track(s) Album Artist(s) 1998 "Trapped in Three Dimensions" Bad Blood Ice 1999 "Looking Over a City" Quannum Spectrum Latyrx "Viagra" U.S.S.R. Life from the Other Side DJ Vadim "Megaton B-Boy" So... How's Your Girl? Handsome Boy Modeling School 2000 "Seven" (featuring J-Treds, J-Live, Mr. Complex) LIberty Masterminds "NY2K" Full Blast Ancients "Protective Custody" Hip Hop for Respect Breezly Brewin, Dante, El P, Imani Uzuri, Jah-Born, John Forte, Main Flow, Mr. Khaliyl, Mr. Len, Nine, Punchline, Talib Kweli, Tiye Phoenix, What?What?* "Offspring" Both Sides of the Brain Del tha Funkee Homosapien 2001 "Homecoming" Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EPs Atmosphere "We Can Build You" The Brotherhood of the Bomb Techno Animal "Ox out the Cage"
"Ridiculoid"The Cold Vein Cannibal Ox "Freestyle (Interlude) [Live]" Farewell Fondle 'Em [El-P & J-Treds] 2002 "Nickel Plated Pockets" Daylight Aesop Rock "Phantom" Emergency Rations Mr. Lif "Deadlight" Urban Renewal Project El-P "Same As It Never Was""Dr. Hell No and the Praying Mantis" "Stepfather Factory" Definitive Jux Presents II [El-P & Vast Wire] [El-P]
"Post Mortem" (featuring Akrobatic & Jean Grae) I Phantom Mr. Lif 2003 "The Dance" The End of the Beginning MURS "Suburb Party" Beauty Party The Majesticons "Phat Chance of the Felonious Monks" Affordable Magic Huge Voodoo "City of Shit" Love & Hate Aceyalone "We're Famous" Bazooka Tooth Aesop Rock 2004 "WMR"
"Oxycontin, Pt. 2"Def Jux Presents 3 [El- P & Camu Tao] [El-P & Cage]
"God Is an Atheist" The Green CD/DVD Non Phixion "The Hours" (featuring Chino Moreno and Cage) White People Handsome Boy Modeling School 2005 "Rickety Rackety" (featuring Camu Tao & Tame One) Fast Cars, Danger, Fire and Knives Aesop Rock "First Words Worse" Year of the Beast C-Rayz Walz "Hideyaface" Surrounded by Silence Prefuse 73 "Good Morning" "Left It to Us" (featuring Aesop Rock, Yak Ballz & Tame One)
Hell's Winter Cage 2006 "Take, Hold, Fire" (featuring Aesop Rock)
Mo' Mega Mr. Lif 2007 "Gun for the Whole Family"
None Shall Pass Aesop Rock 2008 "All the Cash"
They Live Evil Nine 2010 "Sit Down, Man"
Sit Down, Man Das Racist "KILL me" King of Hearts Camu Tao 2011 "The Last Huzzah!"
Lost in Translation Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire "Shut Up, Man" Relax Das Racist 2012 "Sirens" Without You Nick Hook "Butane (Champion's Anthem)" R.A.P. Music Killer Mike "Shit Starters" (featuring Agallah) Payback Danny! 2013 "Severed Heads of State" The Grimy Awards Ill Bill 2021 "Prava" (featuring Black Thought, Tha God Fahim, Mach-Hommy) Dump YOD Your Old Droog 2022 "Heavy Water" (featuring Breeze Brewin) Aethiopes Billy Woods 2023 "Don't Let the Devil" (featuring thankugoodsir) Michael Killer Mike "Big Youth" Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. Crosses
"†" denotes tracks which also feature production by El-P
Remixes
Year Remixed track Released on Artist(s) 1999 Juggle Tings Proper (Madness, Microchips & Hi-Tech War Mix) Brand New Second Hand Roots Manuva 2004 "Beatslope" Def Jux Presents 3 Hangar 18 "Constellation (Heavenly Bodies)" Bird Up - The Charlie Parker Remix Project El-P & Stephanie Vezina 2005 "Goodnight Goodnight" "Goodnight Goodnight" 12-inch
Hot Hot Heat "Hideyaface" "Hideyaface" 12-inch Prefuse 73 "Only" "Only" 12-inch vinyl //
"Every Day Is Exactly the Same" 12"Nine Inch Nails "Scarecrow" Guerolito Beck 2006 "Fondle 'em Fossils" Bucket of B-Sides Vol. 1 Breeze, Q-Unique, Godfather Don, J-Treds and MF Doom "Hours" Return to Cookie Mountain TV on the Radio "Someday Sometimes" Syd Matters Syd Matters 2007 "Where's da G's" Maths + English Dizzee Rascal 2008 "Goliath" The Bedlam in Goliath The Mars Volta "The Jimmy Choos" She Loves Everybody EP Chester French 2009 "I Got This" ATL RMX Young Jeezy 2012 "Hammer Dance" The Leak Slaughterhouse 2015 "Meowpurrdy" Meow the Jewels Run the Jewels 2018 "Supercut (El-P Remix)" [feat. Run the Jewels] Single Lorde
Production credits
Year Track(s) Album Artist 1997 Fire in Which You Burn Soundbombing Indelible MCs Nightwork Sir Menelik 1998 Weight Lyricist Lounge, Volume One Indelible MCs 1999 Deception Part 2: Turmoil Deception (single) Blackalicious Patriotism Soundbombing II Company Flow Looking Over a City Quannum Spectrum Latyrx 2000 "Offspring" Both Sides of the Brain Del tha Funkee Homosapien "Arise" Enters the Colossus Mr. Lif 2001 DPA (As Seen on TV) Simian D Iron Galaxy Straight off the Dic Simple
Def Jux Presents Various "Homecoming" Lucy Ford: The Atmosphere EP's Atmosphere — The Cold Vein
Cannibal Ox "The F Word"
"Life's Ill"
"Metal Gear"The F Word 12" 2002 "Nickel Plated Pockets" Daylight EP
Aesop Rock "Same As It Never Was" "Sneak Preview"
"Paper Mache"
"Dr. Hell No and the Praying Mantis"
"Stepfather Factory"
Def Jux Presents 2 Various "Trainbuffer" "Deadlight"
Urban Renewal Program "Phantom" Emergency Rations Mr. Lif "Holdin a Jar 2" Movies for the Blind Cage "A Glimpse at the Struggle"
"Return of the B-Boy"
"Success"
"Daddy Dearest"
"The Now"
"Post Mortem"I Phantom Mr. Lif 2003 "The Dance"
"Def Cover"The End of the Beginning Murs "Illy" Smashy Trashy S.A. Smash — Ravipops (The Substance) C-Rayz Walz "We're Famous" Bazooka Tooth Aesop Rock "City of Shit" Love & Hate Aceyalone 2004 "Beatslope" (El-P Remix) "WMR"
"Oxy Part 2" {co-produced by Belief}
Def Jux Presents 3 Various — Murs 3:16: The 9th Edition MURS "Submerged" Waterworld Leak Bros. "God Is an Atheist" The Green CD/DVD Non Phixion — Telicatessen Rob Sonic "All the Way Hype" Space Tech banana Clip 12" Babbletron — We Live: The Black Samurai C-Rayz Walz 2005 "People 4 Prez"
"Blō"
"Frame Rupture"Black Dialogue The Perceptionists "Turbo Connections" Common Man Connections The Presence "Paradise" Year of the Beast C-Rayz Walz "Good Morning"
"Too Heavy for Cherubs"
"Stripes"
"Perfect World" (as
Central Services)
"Subtle Art of the Breakup Song"
"Lord Have Mercy"
"Hell's Winter"Hell's Winter Cage "Vein"
"Raspberry Fields"
"From the Planet of Eat"Return of the Ox: Live at CMJ Cannibal OX "Small Town" Dusted Dons Dusted Dons 2006 "Collapse"
"Ultra Mega"
"Brothaz"
"The Fries"
"Take, Hold, Fire"
"Long Distance"
"Mo' Mega"
"Looking In"
Mo' Mega Mr. Lif "Smalltown" Slow Suicide Stimulus Slow Suicide Stimulus 2007 "Gun for the Whole Family" None Shall Pass Aesop Rock 2009 "Nothing Left to Say"
"I Lost It in Havertown"
"Teenage Hands"
"Eating Its Way Out of Me"
Depart From Me Cage 2010 "Kill Me" King of Hearts Camu Tao "Mean Streak" Crown of Thorns Rakaa 2011 "Shut Up, Man" Relax Das Racist "Fire Marshall Bill"
"Chicken Spot Rock"
"Cockmeat Sandwich/Pissin' Between Train Cars"
"Build-A-Bitch"
"No Time"
Lost in Translation Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire 2012 — R.A.P. Music Killer Mike "Telephuk" Power & Passion Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire 2013 "Severed Heads of State" The Grimy Awards Ill Bill "Stephanie (Super Ugly)" Non-album single Jabee 2015 "Another Body" Fantastic Four (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Marco Beltrami and Philip Glass 2016 "Axolotl"
"Iodine & Iron"
Total Depravity The Veils "Digging for Windows" Non-album single Zack de la Rocha 2023 "The Gods Must Be Crazy" We Buy Diabetic Test Strips Armand Hammer "Don't Let the Devil" (co-produced by No ID) Michael Killer Mike 2024 "Detonator" Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
"—" denotes executive-production credit for the entire album/release.
"†" denotes tracks which also feature vocal performances by El-P.
"‡" denotes credit as co-producer or additional production.
Music videos
As lead artist
Year Album Song Director Other featured artist 2002 Fantastic Damage "Deep Space 9mm" Brian Beletic 2003 "Stepfather Factory" Plates Animation 2007 I'll Sleep When You're Dead "Smithereens" Cassidy Gearhart "Flyentology" Daniel Garcia and Nathan Love Trent Reznor 2010 WeareallgoingtoburninhellmeAgamixx3 "Time Won't Tell" Shan Nicholson 2012 Cancer 4 Cure "The Full Retard" Timothy Saccenti "Stay Down"
As featurer artist
Year | Artist | Title | Director | Other featured artist |
---|---|---|---|---|
2008 | Evil Nine | All the Cash | n/c | |
2011 | Mr. Muthafuckin' eXquire | The Last Huzzah | Jiro Kohl & Vic Reznik | Despot, Das Racist, Danny Brown |
2012 | Nick Hook | Sirens | T.S. Pfeffer | Rood |
2013 | Ill Bill | Severed Heads of State | Ill Bill | |
2023 | Killer Mike | Don't Let the Devil | David Peña | thankugoodsir |
Crosses | Big Youth | n/c |
See also
References
- General
- "El-P". Definitive Jux. Archived from the original on 2008-03-06. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
- "El-P > Discography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
- "El-P – Inertia". InertiaMusic.com. Archived from the original on 2008-05-03. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
- Specific
- ^ Huey, Steve. "Company Flow > Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
- ^ McCarthy, Kieran. "El-P > Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
- ^ "El-P > Charts & Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-03-26.
- ^ el producto (2010-05-05). "im going to stab you.: WEAREALLGOINGTOBURNINHELLMEGGAMIXXX3 RELEASE DATE, COVER, TRACKLISITING". Cancer4cure.blogspot.com. Archived from the original on 2010-05-08. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
- ^ El-P (2008-04-15). "Weareallgoingtoburninhellmeggamixx2". Definitive Jux. Archived from the original on 2008-05-03. Retrieved 2008-04-30.
- ^ "EL-P – Flyentology (2007, CDR)". Discogs. 2007. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2013-01-29.
- ^ "El-P: "The Full Retard" | Tracks | Pitchfork". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 2013-01-27. Retrieved 2013-01-29.
- ^ "Rec'd: El-P – "The Full Retard" | Pretty Much Amazing". Archived from the original on 2013-01-08. Retrieved 2013-01-29.
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