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Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.
Immortal Technique
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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 love the place that I live, but I hate the people in charge.
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Hip-hop is about the human condition it's about people's lives.
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I'll leave you fulla clips like the moon blockin' the sun.
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I'll throw ya gang-sign up, and then I'll spit on my hand.
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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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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 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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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 never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa, I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza
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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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In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.
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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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You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!
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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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Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal, This is the last time I kneel and pray to the sky, Cause almost everything that I was always ever told was a lie...
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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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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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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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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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You can’t stop a revolution from breathin’, so to beat ‘em they offer people the illusion of freedom.
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