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Hip-hop is about the human condition it's about people's lives.

Immortal Technique

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Immortal Technique
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 31
Musician
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City of the Kings
Felipe Andres Coronel
Felipe Coronel
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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 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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I'll leave you fulla clips like the moon blockin' the sun.
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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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Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal.
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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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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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Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.
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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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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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Devils used to be God's angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we're burnin in the melting pot.
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When we look at these types of things it echoes to lessons we haven't learned from the past. We still don't see Rome as a negative thing we glorify the Roman Empire. It was a fascist state under the control of an incredibly authoritarian militant pre-emptive striking genocidal regime.
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The kingdoms of Africa and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the dark side of the moon, and contact with aliens.
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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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Attempts to extinguish me don't even bother me none. Like retarded kids throwing ice cubes at the sun, a victory against Immortal Technique will never be done.
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Read between the lines and free your mind
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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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I don't think the war is going to end, but the war is just going to change. So we talk about change all the time, well that's what's going to change. You know, we tried having an idiot try and justify the war and give us these rationales and now we're going to have a very articulate and capable black man say it.
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Changing the course of destiny, so I'm strapped with weaponry cause the government don't give a f-k about protecting me.
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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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