Immortal Technique
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Biography
Felipe Andres Coronel, better known by his stage name Immortal Technique, is a Peruvian-American rapper, songwriter, and activist. His lyrics largely feature commentary on issues such as politics, religion, institutional racism, and government conspiracies.
"The problem with conformists will always be 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"
"I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperately try to be something I'm really not, just to fit in. And whether we want to accept it or not, that's what this culture or lack of culture is feeding us."
"You cannot second guess yourself in these days and times. They're gonna throw whatever they can at you and you gotta be prepared for it. You gotta be prepared for anything."
"And fuck the president I voted for assassination"
"Stomp A Man Of Any complexion with a devilish nature, 'cause i'm tryin' to save the earth , but you're just gettin' in line to rape her"
"This is about you though, it ain't about Jesus / and you shouldn't fucking talk about telekinesis / nigga please, moving shit with your mind? / try moving ya moms out the projects with your rhymes"
"I never make songs to disrespect women / or to judge people about the way that they're living / but the way I am is based on the life I was given / Like those white boys "Losing My Religion""
"Working your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship. It's rushhour 2.30 to 8 non-stoppin and people coming home after corporate sharecropping."
"Mothers are trying to feed children / But gentrification is kicking them out of their building / A generation of babies born without health care / Families homeless, thrown the fuck off of welfare"
"But you can't read history at an illiterate stage / And you can't raise a family on minimum wage"
"The odds are stacked against us like a casino / Think about it, most of the army is black and latino / And if you can't acknowledge the reality of my words / You just another stupid mother fucker out on the curb / Trying to escape from the ghetto with your ignorant ways / But you can't read history at an illiterate stage / And you can't raise a family on minimum wage / Why the fuck you think / most of us are locked in a cage."
"They vote for us to go to war instantly, but none of their kids serve in the infantry."
"If you go platinum it's got nothin' to do with luck / it just means that a million people are stupid as fuck"
"The bling-bling era was cute, but it's about to be done. I leave you full eclipse (of clips) like the moon blocking the sun."
"My metaphors are dirty like herpes, but harder to catch, like an escape tunnel in prison I started from scratch."
"The things I've seen in life will make you choke by surprise / like an aborted fetus in a jar that opened its eyes"
"You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past"
"I hate it when they tell us how far we came to be, as if our people's history started with slavery."
"Hell is not a place you go, if you ain't a christian, it's the failure, of your life's greatest ambition."
"Revolution is the birth to equality and the antithesis to oppression."
"But you know what the fuck I think is just pathetic and gay? When niggaz speculate what the fuck 'Pac would say. You don't know shit about a dead man's perspective and talking shit will get your neckbone disconnected, disrespected. Niggaz don't show no love, why you trying to be hardcore? you fucking homo-thug. And don't be sensitive and angry at the shit that I wrote, cuz if you can take a fucking dick, you can take a joke."
"The voice of racism preaching the Gospel is devilish. A fake church called the prophet Muhammad a terrorist, for "getting God" is not religion, but a spiritual bond and Jesus is the most-quoted prophet in the Qur'an."
"How could this be, the land of the free, home of the brave.. indigenous holocaust and the home of the slaves. Corporate America dancing offbeat to the rhythm. You really think this country never sponsored terrorism? Human rights violations we continue the saga, El Salvador and the Contras in Nicaragua. And on top of that you still want to take me to prison, just cause I won't trade humanity for patriotism."
"We don't get weapons contracts, nigga / We don't get cheap labor for our company, nigga / We ARE cheap labour, nigga / Turn off the news and read, nigga / read..."
"A bandana full of glittering generality, 'fighting for freedom' and 'fighting terror', but what's reality? Martial law is coming soon to the hood to kill you, while you hanging your flag out your project window."