There’s something missing in Hip Hop music and culture and E.L.P.J. fills it and adds in some finishing touches to it.

Da Illestrators (<——— old ass video) was the name of E.L.P.J.’s group from when he first started spittin.

The name is a play on words. An “illustrator” is someone who makes pictures and being the “illest” means your good. So Da Illestrators are the best.

ANOTHER OLD ASS VIDEO… ‘10 SHIT!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1SUmbqDaOI&list=UUDmvpJFMfbom4ix7bk958Mg&index=125&feature=plcp

He hasn’t died for the struggle… yet… And even though he’s sort of predicting an early death with this line, he says he doesn’t plan to die, but just to keep writing songs. And if these songs where he shows his thoughts and ideas get him assassinated, then so be it.

As revolutionary, Huey P. Newton said:

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man. Unless he understands this, he does not grasp the essential meaning of his life…

He always kept it real and himself and even though some of his views or beliefs may change, at the core, he’s always gonna be the same person.

Thought it was the end for him…

He knows that bad choices are downgrading of who he really is but realizes that it’s what made him who he is today, so he regrets nothing.

Everyone does bad shit and loses friends sometimes…

E.L.P.J. was raised Catholic but was never majorly religious. He lost belief in religion by the age of 11 and started to study all different schools of thought surrounding spirituality. He now identifies himself as a Freethinker or a 5 Percenter.

Rap what he’s feeling.

He’s getting older and beginning to have to decide more things for himself.