{"id":622,"date":"2019-06-19T22:41:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T22:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marmoset-journal.flywheelsites.com\/the-best-undiscovered-songs-for-commercial-use-epp\/"},"modified":"2020-12-14T15:43:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T23:43:01","slug":"the-best-undiscovered-songs-for-commercial-use-epp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/the-best-undiscovered-songs-for-commercial-use-epp\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating Space and Solace, ePP Drops &#8220;There\u2019s a Place for People Like You&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \" data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \" style=\"max-width: 2500.0px;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \" style=\"padding-bottom: 150.0%;\" data-animation-role=\"image\"><br \/>\n<noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/getting-rights-for-music-epp.jpg\" alt=\"getting-rights-for-music-epp.JPG\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/getting-rights-for-music-epp.jpg\" alt=\"getting-rights-for-music-epp.JPG\" data-image=\"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/getting-rights-for-music-epp.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"2500x3750\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.6071428571428571,0.43452380952380953\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5d0954f7ccc8be00018617c2\" data-type=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">Marmoset artist, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/artists\/epp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ePP<\/a> cultivates community through his music \u2014 his latest album <em>There\u2019s a Place for People Like You <\/em>carries a message of togetherness, to aspire for the best while hoping others make it too. Each song is magnetically intimate, a close up account of what makes him tick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">While his latest compilation can be categorized as hip hop and rap, his love and pursuit of rock music shouldn\u2019t be minimized; it\u2019s something he still invests his creative energy into, a part of the roadmap that defines his present arrival.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">Stepping outside the boundaries of what others expect or require of him, ePP stays true to his message of authenticity. He doesn\u2019t make music to fulfill what others envision for him \u2014 instead embracing hardships, channeling them into creative expression not merely for creative accolades but for others seeking solace or comforting resonation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">Sitting down to chat with us, we\u2019re even bigger fans of ePP now than ever. Read on to learn more:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>Marmoset: Hey ePP, thanks for sitting down to chat with us. With your latest record, <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/artists\/epp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>There\u2019s A Place for People Like You<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong> now on our roster, we wanted to dig a bit more into your background, influences and where you\u2019re heading. Looking back at your origins, you moved to Portland from Georgia, right? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>ePP: <\/strong>Yes, that&#8217;s right.\u00a0I always kind of dabbled in making music but I didn\u2019t really start recording until I was in high school. It wasn\u2019t until college when I was sitting down in class and I was like, \u201cI don\u2019t want to be here.\u201d I don\u2019t want to say it would have been a waste but in the long run, what I want to do and how I want to impact people\u2019s lives and my own life has nothing to do with a piece of paper saying, \u2018hey good job.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>Marmoset: Can you take us through what it looked like getting started in music?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>ePP: <\/strong>I wrote my first song when I was 11 years old, I didn\u2019t know what I was doing. I had like a Casio keyboard and was just playing some stuff. Fast forward to high school, there\u2019s like a really close friend of mine, he made beats and then we met with some kids from Vancouver who were into skating. So we had that in common. It started with meeting up with another crew of kids and it\u2019w how I got started writing rock music, because it was my favorite genre. So 16, 17, I was straight up writing alternative rock stuff, maybe what you\u2019d call hardcore stuff as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>Marmoset: It\u2019s like you realized you had something to directly offer back to your community through your own art. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>ePP: <\/strong>Yeah, definitely. I agree with that. That\u2019s kind of where my head was at. When you\u2019re young especially \u2014 I don\u2019t come from a family that says, oh you need to go to college in order to do something \u2014 it\u2019s more about finding the route you want to go and my family still saying, \u2018 we support you.\u2019 Needless to say, I came from a very supportive family \u2014 kind of confused, like \u2018eh is this really what you want to do \u2014 but still definitely had the support that led me down the road to doing what I want to do.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>Marmoset: Were there other people in your family that were involved in music? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>ePP:<\/strong> No, nobody. My 16 year old cousin who\u2019s going to school in France right now is the only other person who\u2019s musically inclined. I mean, growing up music was always playing, it was always around. But no one in my family really liked to play music.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \" data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \" style=\"max-width: 1500.0px;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \" style=\"padding-bottom: 66.66667175292969%;\" data-animation-role=\"image\"><br \/>\n<noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/songs-for-commercial-use-epp.jpg\" alt=\"songs-for-commercial-use-epp.JPG\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/songs-for-commercial-use-epp.jpg\" alt=\"songs-for-commercial-use-epp.JPG\" data-image=\"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/songs-for-commercial-use-epp.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"1500x1000\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5d0955a2ccc8be00018619af\" data-type=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>Marmoset: With your new album,<em> There\u2019s a Place for People Like You <\/em>being hip hop and rap orientated, could you share more about your interest in rock music? What attracts you to that genre specifically?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>ePP: <\/strong>Rock music in general I\u2019ve just always connected with it. And there was a time where a black kid coming up, it was frowned up pretty much; like \u2018you\u2019re trying to be a white boy etc. etc.\u2019. But no that\u2019s not it, it\u2019s just what I like, it\u2019s just music at the end of the day. And it\u2019s what I connected with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>Marmoset: It sounds like you really have a good circle of friends but always looking ahead and trying to connect with your community. How does staying connected with people and being open to collaboration mean to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>ePP: <\/strong>You know, people will hit me up through a DM on Instagram like, \u2018hey man, I\u2019m in this band or I play this instrument and would love to meet up\u2019 \u2014 and I think, why not? Because there\u2019s going to be a time when no one\u2019s going to want to do shit with me. That\u2019s just the progression of life. There\u2019s going to come a time when your friends no longer hit you up because they\u2019re parents now and they don\u2019t have the same time. So while I have the opportunity to be part of cool stuff, I\u2019m going to be a part of as much music related situations as I can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>Marmoset: Living in Portland, Oregon, there\u2019s a lot of change on the music front end. How do you see your music contributing to the community? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>ePP: <\/strong>I\u2019ve definitely seen that change happen firsthand. You know, 10 years ago I wasn\u2019t in a group or anything at the time but I was still kind of doing music, you know I was young so I was just working a regular job. The way it was then, if you were better than other people, others were kind of jaded, jealous and weird. And I think it helped me and the group of people I was working with to make us better, because we knew there were only a handful of people who would help other artists answer questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">I have a very open phone policy, like if you have questions or if there\u2019s anything I can do to help, I wanna be that person. I don\u2019t want to be closed off. Any artist who comes in and asks questions, I\u2019m always willing to listen and do all I can to help. And it\u2019s never \u2018oh I did this and I did that\u2019 for me. I check in, I go to shows. Because I really want to be there and I really believe in the people that are performing, I just want to help as much as I can really.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>Marmoset: We love your spirit in that kind of coming together, sticking together. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>ePP: <\/strong>Well, that\u2019s the only way. I had like that conversation recently. It was just about how the only way that things will get better, the only reason why this is community has gotten better is because people realize, \u2018 let\u2019s get off this ego shit, let\u2019s work together, let\u2019s progress.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">It\u2019s about saying, \u2018cool, this person\u2019s a lesson learned in how they got to their spot\u2019 instead of being jealous. No one wants to deal with a jealous person, you can come up together and there\u2019s enough money for everyone to get. You know, if you don\u2019t like someone that\u2019s fine, I know some people don\u2019t like me, I don\u2019t care. You know, I\u2019m out for everyone. But the people who do appreciate me and rock with me, that\u2019s what it is.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">You can form and build community by being inclusive, not trying to act like gatekeepers \u2014 that\u2019s how things should be at least in my eyes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>Marmoset: We agree, it\u2019s a good thing to practice, just applying it day to day. It\u2019s kind of humbling in a way to remember we all share a space.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>ePP: <\/strong>It\u2019s really humbling. You look at bigger cities like LA \u2014 so many people I know directly who are rivals but they all work together because they realize we can all grow from this if we stop trying to segregate. Portland\u2019s already a really white city, you don\u2019t need me to tell you that, you already know that. But regardless, I\u2019m going to get mine so if I can help people get there too, that to me means way more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">It\u2019s never been about the money. I don\u2019t care about that shit, it\u2019s all about making good music and adding to the community \u2014 not taking away. It\u2019s like a real cultural thing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\n          image-block-outer-wrapper\n          layout-caption-below\n          design-layout-inline\n          combination-animation-none\n          individual-animation-none\n          individual-text-animation-none\n        \" data-test=\"image-block-inline-outer-wrapper\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \" style=\"max-width: 1200.0px;\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"\n                image-block-wrapper\n                has-aspect-ratio\n              \" style=\"padding-bottom: 100.0%;\" data-animation-role=\"image\"><br \/>\n<noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/a3878769873_10.jpg\" alt=\"a3878769873_10.jpg\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumb-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/a3878769873_10.jpg\" alt=\"a3878769873_10.jpg\" data-image=\"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/a3878769873_10.jpg\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x1200\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" data-load=\"false\" data-image-id=\"5d0ab87511c79300019c22fa\" data-type=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>Marmoset: What\u2019s the story behind the title of your new album <em>There\u2019s a Place for People Like You?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>ePP: <\/strong>I\u2019m going through a lot, some of my closest friends have also been through some really tragic and tumultuous things. I pretty much scrapped two iterations of the album that I had; I really want to write from an honest, transparent place and I wanted the beats to match that. We all have days where we feel like shit and then we have days \u2018I\u2019m a bad bitch\u2019 you can\u2019t tell me anything. And I think I wanted to encompass that in the album \u2014 to make it feel and sound like a movie. Even though the songs are different, I wanted everything to blend and be cohesive at the same time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">Because I feel like the stuff that I went through, if I can be honest and talk about it, I know that someone else is going to relate to it too. And it\u2019s never been about \u2018what are my listeners going to like\u2019. The people who like my music already will like my music \u2014 because it\u2019s honest music. And I think we\u2019re in a time where making honest music is at an all time high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">Also when you get older, you realize \u2018hey this is what I\u2019m good at\u2019 I should stick to it and write it out, regardless of the hardships and everything that comes with it. But that\u2019s just life and what is life without experiences and a story to tell.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"><strong>ePP was announced #7 Best New Band by Willamette Weekly.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marmoset artist, ePP cultivates community through his music \u2014 his latest album There\u2019s a Place&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3760,6,16,17,25],"tags":[3762],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","category-marmoset","category-music","category-music-licensing","category-spotlight-artists","tag-artist-highlights","has-excerpt"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/songs-for-commercial-use-epp.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8086,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/8086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marmosetmusic.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}