Tech started his career as a hungry battle rapper straight out of the penitentiary. Even if Tech has tamed his hotheadedness since being paroled in 1999, one gets the sense that he’s still down to throw his fists up at a moment’s notice, if necessary. since the early ’80s, he hasn’t exactly evaded a hostile life, growing up in the streets of Spanish Harlem and then getting locked up for assault charges during his first year of college. To understand Immortal Technique, it’s vital to know that he was born into violence, coming into this world in a Peruvian military hospital shortly before the country’s civil war–a conflict that began in 1980 and lasted for nearly 20 years. Tech was as eager to talk about his daily revolutionary work as his forthcoming album, The 3rd World. When I did, music was almost a secondary topic of conversation. When not delivering a revolution in the form of hip-hop, the MC born Felipe Coronel has made his ultimate priority fighting numerous injustices in Third World countries–most recently beginning a dialogue with fellow recording artists and Hollywood filmmakers in an effort to stop the United States’ embargo against Cuba.Īs such, it took weeks of waiting to get Immortal Technique on the phone. Edgar Hoover politicians dress up in drag.”
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Sometimes he seems to spit lines just to get a rise out of people on “Leaving the Past,” for example, he raps: “ I’ll do a free show in North Korea burning the flag/While J. Balancing “humility with brutal instinct,” he rails about puppet democracies in war-torn countries and the racist history of European religion and colonialism. 1, Tech has had hip-hop fans listening intently to his unflinching political perspectives and fiery flow enhanced by rugged East Coast production. Since stirring up the underground with his self-released debut, 2001’s Revolutionary Vol. Not satisfied with being labeled a “conscious MC,” for the past decade, this Peruvian-born New Yorker’s aim in life has reached beyond the confines of the rap game. These are the words of 30-year-old rapper Immortal Technique. There are people that will, and me, I consider those people revolutionary.” They’re conscious of it, but they’re not gonna do a fucking thing about it. I think everybody in this country knows the government’s corrupt. “Lots of people in America know that the system is fucked up.