We were just giggling, like "This is some fucking independent as fuck ass shit right here!" We loved it. It was good to be part of a record that helped spearhead that independent movement, even though it still has taken way too long to take hold.Įl-P: I remember sitting at my kitchen table, cutting up letters and pictures and trying to glue them on there so we could make artwork for our black and white promo.
Jus: I'm proud of the "independent as fuck" vibe to the record, and how we stayed pure and didn't get watered down by all the crap that was in the industry. I don't like being negative but a lot of things still look the same to me at this point. Turns out things weren't too far off from where they were when we were doing Company Flow. I started more introspective and then went back out to investigate what was going on in the world. I haven't changed in terms of the way I look at things but I started writing more about myself, drawing from my own personal experiences- things that sort of take precedence over just ideas.
Pitchfork: How would you compare your overall perspectives now to when this album originally came out?Įl-P: That CoFlow record was us on some fuckin' angry societal perspective shit and some love-for-hip-hop shit. But at least someone's trying to do something now. To fix that you're circling money through an economy that has already crumbled.
We're talking about 600,000 people losing their jobs in a month, millions in a year. But it always sucks to be the first person to do something, especially at a time when everything's fucked up. Pitchfork: So uplifting! Are you guys not excited about our new president? Jus: You sound like Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. Bigg Jus: No! We're all about change now!Įl-P: We're all about the hope.
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