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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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Immortal Technique
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: March 31
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City of the Kings
Felipe Andres Coronel
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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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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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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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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 love the place that I live, but I hate the people in charge.
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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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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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A pretty face can capture my attention but only a beautiful mind can hold it.
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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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I think that learning to read between the lines of traditional media is one way to stay informed, and also realizing that eventually you're going to have to cross-reference all sorts of different information coming from different sources.
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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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You will learn a lesson repeated through history, that no matter what you think, occupation is not victory!
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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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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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Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul, spreading like a virus, running rampant, out of control.
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I have a strong army I keep with me and we don't go out there looking for problems. A lot of people have this perception... but I don't have a superiority complex about me because I'm from New York or because I'm Peruvian/Black. I think some people get caught up in that stuff.
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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 try to take people at face value and then beyond, taking them out of face value and out of the category of being Black, Latino, Asian, White, Jewish, Muslim or Christian or Atheist, none of that matters to me.
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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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