El-P

Born in 1975, El-P (aka El Producto, or even Jaime Meline) is a rapper and co-founder/CEO of the Def Jux label.

Expelled from a variety of schools in his youth, Meline developed a love for jazz music via his father, Harry Keys, a jazz pianist. He formed the hip-hop group Company Flow in 1992 following a chance encounter with Mr Len. Highly acclaimed, Company Flow split in 2001 following much praise for their 1997 LP Funcrusher Plus.

El-P's debut solo album, Fantastic Damage, was released in 2002. A follow-up proper, I'll Sleep When You're Dead, emerged in 2007.

From Wikipedia:

As a rapper, El-P's style can be characterized by his dense, aggressive, and verbose attacks, which include notable use of metaphor, science fiction and fantasy themes and references, and associative word play. Regardless of this sophistication, he does not eschew traditional hip hop subject matter, a description which would fit equally well with several of his colleagues. His impact as a producer owes to his innovative mix of bleak futurism and low fidelity sounds. This sound is influenced by Public Enemy's production team, The Bomb Squad. El-P is a great fan of science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, and many of Dick's themes—paranoia, the nature of reality—feature in El-P's work.

El-P's MySpace page is HERE.