Run The Jewels' El-P Talks Being A White Rapper in Hip Hop

Whether it was his '90s group Company Flow, his solo stuff or his work with Killer Mike in their group Run the Jewels, it seems that El-P has been putting in work forever.

The veteran MC recently sat down with Talib Kweli on the Black Star member's People’s Party podcast, and beginning at the 49:15 mark he talked about what it's like being a white rapper in hip hop.

"I always found it a little distasteful to talk about or to put myself in any type of light that might insinuate that there was this struggle that I had because I was white [and] I was trying to get into rap," explained El-P. "If I hadn’t had rap music, I don’t know, as a middle-class white kid, how long it would have taken me to be exposed to the truth. It helped in the lifting of the veil. I don't know how long it would have taken me, if I didn't have rap music, to realize there was a whole hella a lot of bullsh*t."

What do you think about what El-P's said?