(Fresh Daily) Killer Mike & El-P: We've come so far.

In 2005 Warp records gave Prefuse 73 a substantial budget to make a high-art mixtape called Surrounded By Silence. It was an awkward, but necessary phase that also included DJ Shadow's The Outsider ('06), in which he tried his hand at collaborating with the hyphy movement. For many underground hip hop enthusiasts of the time, the El-P and Ghostface Killah collaboration on "Hideyaface" felt like the rumblings of a new era, in which our celebrated heroes of the 90s wou...

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