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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.

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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We're more Christian than the Pope. And, I mean, that's not our religion. We pray to the Gods of our conquerors... all black and brown people.
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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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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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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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I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages.
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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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A man who walks with God, can walk anywhere. Hence, I fear nothing.
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Pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.
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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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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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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'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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Hip-hop is about the human condition it's about people's lives.
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