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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
Stop
Freedom
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People
Offer
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Illusion
Offers
Revolution

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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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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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We're more Christian than the Pope. And, I mean, that's not our religion. We pray to the Gods of our conquerors... all black and brown people.
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Hip-hop is about the human condition it's about people's lives.
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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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Your fans can't just pop in whenever they want. I'm not gonna allow someone to just drop over my house whenever they want like, Hey what's up? I bought your album so what's for dinner?
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Read between the lines and free your mind
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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 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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I think that when you look at history and when you look at these facts that shape nations and shape countries and give us present examples of how we're supposed to live, we find more and more often that we're not paying attention to what's actually happening.
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I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard
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A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.
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It's not like America's view of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle is going to change. There are some things that are going to change and some things that are not going to change.
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Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal.
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I love the place that I live, but I hate the people in charge.
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You don't have to either choose to save the world or become a sellout. I say to people, Listen dude, how can you save the world if you can't even save yourself? Why don't you try to affect one person's life who's in your life, and that would be historic.
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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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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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Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.
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I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But you don't fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting. That's the most important part.
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