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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.
Immortal Technique
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Immortal Technique
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 31
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City of the Kings
Felipe Andres Coronel
Felipe Coronel
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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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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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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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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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I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages.
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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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I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa, I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza
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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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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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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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I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard
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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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As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue.
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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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Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.
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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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A man who walks with God, can walk anywhere. Hence, I fear nothing.
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Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.
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The 'king of hip hop' is always the poster child for capitalism, no matter who it is.
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Love...doesn't need a complicated metaphor And sometimes nothing needs to be said at all
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