Of Hooptys And Hovercrafts — where’s DefJux heading?

This year, a decade after start­ing DEF JUX and after over­see­ing the releases of some incred­i­ble albums includ­ing the forth­com­ing release of my dear late and great friend Camu Tao’s bril­liant “KING OF HEARTS” LP, I’m step­ping away from my duties as artis­tic direc­tor for the label to con­cen­trate on what I love most: being a pro­ducer and an artist full time. This is some­thing I’ve been con­tem­plat­ing for a few years now, and can’t think of a bet­ter time or, with the even­tual release of Camu’s record, a more poetic way to tran­si­tion into a new direction.

Let’s hope for all of us this means not the begin­ning of the end of  the most inno­v­a­tive and inde­pend­net hiphop label of our times. Apper­ently they real­ized some­thing has to change:

The evo­lu­tion of this indus­try is, in my opin­ion, excit­ing, inevitable and it would be nice to see the DEFINITIVE JUX brand be a part of it.

I’m excited as hwell.

Read the rest of El-P’s announce­ment to retire as CEO of Defin­i­tive­Jux and focus on his music.