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 go on a ridiculous sex-and-drugs-and-random-assaults spree. The video manages to be simultaneously pretty funny and fucking disturbing, which feels like an impressive...

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 solo yammer “Patriotism” was the one track I always skipped on the great Rawkus compilations Soundbombing II. Whenever his voice showed up on the underground rap album...

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 produced all of R.A.P. Music, the utterly badass new album from Killer Mike, and it’s the first album he’s produced in full for someone else since Cannibal Ox’s classic The C...

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 transgressive charge to seeing El-P, patron saint of New York noise-rap, stopping by to see fellow redhead David Letterman on network TV last night. El brought Islands frontman Nick ...

Earlier this year, we got a pair of look-ins on Killer Mike’s El-P-produced R.A.P. Music, one of Most Anticipated records for this spring and summer. It’s out next week on Williams Street, but you can hear it now at Spin.