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You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ‘em they offer people the illusion of freedom.

Immortal Technique

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Immortal Technique
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 31
Musician
Rapper
Singer
City of the Kings
Felipe Andres Coronel
Felipe Coronel
Beats
Illusion
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Revolution
Stop
Freedom
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People
Offer
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I would love for [Jesus] to come back because I would love for him to face what is happening and to really have some sort of perspective. In that same respect, I'm sure that Prophet Muhammad would be disgusted by what some people use his name to justify.
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Art has to be, you know, trade itself, conform to the old strict guidelines set forth by how it was going to act in the future.
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I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages.
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Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.
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I spend a lot of time out there. I've got a lot of family that lives in Inglewood and surrounding areas. So I'm right in the hood, every time I go there I go see my peoples. I rep real hard for the people that I see that are the counterparts of what I'm trying to do out here, out there.
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A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.
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Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.
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I try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category of being Black, Latino, Asian, White, Jewish, Muslim or Christian or Atheist, none of that matters to me.
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I would say that everyone that you see who is successful in the mainstream, at the top of Billboard, who has a Top 40 hit... at some point, unless they're a complete fabrication of the industry with no identity of their own and a carbon copy clone of someone else, they in themselves started out being underground.
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Using some economic issues to make one group of people, regardless of race or religion, the scapegoat for all the problems of the country is just the stupidest, and yet, the most creative propaganda scheme that you can come up with.
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Reality is nourishment, but people don't believe it, I guess it's hard to stomach the truth like a bulimic.
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Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.
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Read about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children
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Doubt that there could ever be...a more wicked MC. 'Cuz AIDS infested child molesters aren't sicker than me.
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I'll throw ya gang-sign up, and then I'll spit on my hand.
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The mind of a child is where the Revolution begins.
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Plastic metaphors and carbon copy similes that aren't going to do anything for anybody and it doesn't showcase creativity it showcases the fact that the soul of the music has been compromised to control the industry.
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A lot of individuals I've met that I've done a song or two with. But to be honest I'm not incredibly familiar with the scene. I mean, I'm more familiar with people coming from other countries like Latin-American MCs and African rappers... that type of stuff I'm really starting to get a hold on.
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I think that learning to read between the lines of traditional media is one way to stay informed, and also realizing that eventually you're going to have to cross-reference all sorts of different information coming from different sources.
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You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!
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