When he was finally let go, he returned to Harlem unable to locate a job because of his jail rep. From Tech's incarceration, inside the walls he would know for the next (approximately) two years of his life, he began to write, fight, battle, and harden his resolution of being a revolutionary. Before he was thrown away for his own fuck ups, he learned to love people like Che Guevara, Malcolm X, DJ Herc, and Karl Marx. Where did all the real motherfuckers go in the gameīring back the break dancers and graffiti writers with fameīefore being thrown away in jail, all through IT's (now hereafter referred to as Tech) life he was enthralled by the still classical underground culture of hip hop that could be found in Harlem, should one look deep enough. Then he got himself arrested for Aggravated Assault, impounded for a year or so, and was released into a world that wouldn't hire him. As he grew he fled from Harlem schooling, cops, did drugs, broke the law, most likely joined a gang or two, sold dope, possibly other drugs, and finished high school, soon after becoming accepted to a state university. IT grew up like a typical human in the projects. It wasn't much of a move for most people trading a 3rd world birthplace for a 1st world ghetto. In the early 1980's, Immortal Technique (hereafter IT) was born in Southern America inside of a military hospital, and before aging long enough to understand the current civil war conflicts of his native Peru, was brought to Northern America. Most of my Latino and Black people who are struggling to get food, clothes, and shelter in the hoodĪre so concerned with that, that philosophizing about freedom and socialist democracy is usually Who the fuck is this guy? You check the CD case again. He threatens if nobody signs his albums he'll bootleg them on the streets and hustle his own records. He's yelling at all the rappers who rap about ice and pimping. They don't evolve, and no whistles, hardly a women wooing in the background. racism, Montezuma, and the manipulation of religion. He weaves in stories about the Knights Templar, details how cocaine enters the US, Auschwitz, Condoleezza Rice, classism vs. He goes through the list again to make sure he's got everyone. He curses off Pepsi, Fox News, major record labels, your mom some more. He says you've got puppet idiots in government office. He lets you know he wants to rape your mom really bad. This rapper is a little different than what you've seen on MTV recently. So after three weeks you buy it for just over $10, take it back to your apartment, put it in your computer's disc drive, and let it run out. One of your friends is a hip hop geek who tells you about an up and coming underground rapper, and encourages you to purchase his new CD. Scenario: You're lazy, but willing to try new things.
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