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In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.

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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
Regret
Sacrifice
Music
World
Hardship
Medicine
Laughter

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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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The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system it's the system that will eventually change you.
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I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages.
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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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I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime
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Pharoahe Monch is a long time supporter of my music and I'm a long time supporter of his music so when we met each other it was almost like a natural occurrence.I met him before a few years earlier and we were just politicking with each other and we had a conversation about possibly doing something but our schedules have always been in conflict.
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As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.
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I've had some confrontations after I got out of prison and I'm proud of the fact that I dealt with them differently.
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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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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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A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.
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I'll leave you fulla clips like the moon blockin' the sun.
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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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A man who walks with God, can walk anywhere. Hence, I fear nothing.
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The average ordinary person, in the worst slums of America, someone who might even hate the law and disagree with the government, they would do something about that [abandoned child]. But in Afghanistan, people hardly have the means to take care of themselves, let alone a random child on the street.
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It doesn't matter what race you are. It doesn't matter what religion you are. I always tell people: If you want to be a part of hip-hop, you just need to have a heart. You need to have the courage to tell the truth.
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People are educated into the fact that as a people we stand a better chance of knowing how to work the law if we know the history of the law and the history of our people's relationship with it.
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I'm a business man and I'm a grown man. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to restructure my life, support my family with this music... I don't have time to deal with the repercussions of breaking somebody's jaw or breaking their nose.
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