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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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In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.
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I Freestyle my Destiny, It's not written in Pages.
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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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I never tried to be Jay Z or Big Poppa, I'm underground like them dead children buried in Gaza
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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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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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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 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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Hip-hop is about the human condition it's about people's lives.
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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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Read between the lines and free your mind
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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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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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The mind of a child is where the Revolution begins.
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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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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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Doubt that there could ever be...a more wicked MC. 'Cuz AIDS infested child molesters aren't sicker than me.
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