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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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Immortal Technique
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 31
Musician
Rapper
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City of the Kings
Felipe Andres Coronel
Felipe Coronel
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I'll leave you fulla clips like the moon blockin' the sun.
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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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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 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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Read between the lines and free your mind
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I don't need to put jewels on to make myself feel important. I'd rather drop them for the benefit of less fortunate people. I don't need to put gold on my body, and I'm not criticizing people who do, but for me, I'd rather be around my family and see them be happy because that's worth more to me than gold.
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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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