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Felipe Andres Coronel , better known by the stage name Immortal Technique, is a Peruvian American hip hop recording artist and activist. Most of his lyrics focus on controversial issues in global politics. His lyrics are largely commentary on issues such as politics, socialism, class struggle, poverty, religion, government, imperialism, economics and institutional racism.

Immortal Technique has aims to retain control over his production, and has stated in his music that record companies, not artists themselves, profit the most from mass production and marketing of music. He claimed in an interview to have sold close to a combined total of 200,000 copies of his first three official releases.

✵ 19. February 1978
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Famous Immortal Technique Quotes

“Some people learn from mistakes and don't repeat them, Others try to block the memories and just delete them”

Immortal Technique

Mistakes
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)

“I hope one of my fans has one of your kids shot: and blames it on acid, prozac and slipknot”

Immortal Technique

Reverse Pimpology
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)

“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.”

Immortal Technique

Harlem Streets
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“They say the rebels in Iraq still fight for Saddam but that's bullshit. I'll tell you why it's totally wrong. Because if another country invaded the hood tonight it would be warfare through Harlem and Washington Heights. I wouldn't be fighting for Bush or white America's dream. I'd be fighting for my people's survival and self esteem.”

Immortal Technique

Bin Laden (2005)
The Martyr, 2011, Singles

“Revolution is never going to finish, because we can never stop reforming our democracy. The moment the revolution stops means the revolution has been betrayed.”

Immortal Technique

(2011) ( From RT. com http://rt.com/news/immortal-technique-wall-street-revolution-747/} <br class="br">Interviews

“Revolution is the birth to equality and the antithesis to oppression.”

Immortal Technique

One (Remix)
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

Immortal Technique Quotes about people

“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"”

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Crossing the Boundary
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“Remember this revolution is born out of love for my people not hatred for others.”

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The Poverty of Philosophy
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 1 (2001)

“I hate it when they tell us how far we came to be, as if our people's history started with slavery.”

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Leaving the Past
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“Using numerology to count the people I sent to heaven produces more digits than twenty-two divided by seven.”

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Dance With The Devil - Hidden Track feat. Diabolic
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 1 (2001)

“They bombed innocent people trying to murder Saddam
When they gave 'em those chemical weapons to go to war with Iran
This is the information they hold back from Peter Jennings 'cause Condoleeza Rice is just a new-age Sally Hemmings.”

Immortal Technique

The 4th Branch
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

Immortal Technique Quotes about life

“The things I've seen in life will make you choke by surprise / like an aborted fetus in a jar that opened its eyes”

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Internally Bleeding
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“Hell is not a place you go, if you ain't a christian, it's the failure, of your life's greatest ambition.”

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Leaving the Past
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“We were promised a better life in our home countries when we were told that privatized water and electricity would make things run more efficiently instead the quality remained almost the same and the price was increased until it became an unaffordable luxury”

Immortal Technique

Open Your Eyes
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)

Immortal Technique: Trending quotes

“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…”

Immortal Technique

The 4th Branch
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“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.”

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Revolutionary
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 1 (2001)

“They call us terrorists after they ruined our countries.”

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Death March
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)

Immortal Technique Quotes

“Cause the heart that betrays itself willingly Is like a nation that trades freedom for stability”

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Crimes Of The Heart
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)

“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.”

Immortal Technique

The 4th Branch
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“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.”

Immortal Technique

The 4th Branch
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“And that's not socialist mythology, This is urban warfare, to the streets of your psychology.”

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Death March
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)

“But if you on stage with the DEA, as your hype man, don't get yourself locked up and blame the white man.”

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Out on parole
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)

“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”

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The Poverty of Philosophy
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 1 (2001)

“The devil crept into heaven, God overslept on the seventh, the new world order was born on September 11th.”

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The Cause of Death
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“The kingdoms of Africa, and Mesopotamia, machine gunning your body with depleted uranium, this is the age of microchips and titanium, the dark side of the moon, and contact with aliens”

Immortal Technique

The Point of No Return
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“And as a matter of fact Rumsfeld, Now that I think back, Without 9/11 you couldn't have a war in Iraq.”

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The Cause of Death
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“When I was a child, the Devil himself bought me a mic. But I refused the offer, 'cuz God sent me to strike, with skills unused like fallopian tubes on a dyke.”

Immortal Technique

The Cause of Death
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“They say the rebels in Iraq still fight for Saddam, but that's bullshit, I'll shows you why that's totally wrong.”

Immortal Technique

Bin Laden (2005)
, 2011, Singles

“I'm like the legs of a paraplegic really? Cuz I'm still part of you even if you cant feel me.”

Immortal Technique

"Death March:
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)

“They vote for us to go to war instantly, but none of their kids serve in the infantry.”

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Harlem Streets
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal, this is the last time I kneel and pray to the sky, cause almost everything I was ever told was a lie”

Immortal Technique

The Point of No Return
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“And it’s amazing how they trained them, To be racist against themselves in the place they was raised in, You kept us caged in, Destroyed our culture and said that you civilized us, Raped our women and when we were born, you despised us, Gentrified us, agent provocateur divide us, And crucified every revolutionary messiah”

Immortal Technique

The 3rd World
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)

“And they might even have a black president but he’s useless, Cause he does not control the economy stupid”

Immortal Technique

The 3rd World
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)

“I see the world for what it is, beyond the white and the black / The way the government downplays historical facts / 'Cuz the United States sponsored the rise of the Third Reich / Just like the CIA trained terrorists to the fight / Build bombs and sneak box cutters onto a flight”

Immortal Technique

The Cause of Death
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“Cause it's too simple to shoot ya - I'll taser the roof of your mouth and electrocute ya.”

Immortal Technique

Watch Out Freestyle
, 2011, Singles

“What Good is a good education with no direction like the right to vote with no one to vote for in an election”

Immortal Technique

That's what It Is
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)

“Homicide Harlem blam! what's tha problem?”

Immortal Technique

Harlem Streets
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“i pray inside of me that one day you can be forgiven: For murdering the beautiful world in we used to live in”

Immortal Technique

Crimes Of The Heart
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)

“My metaphors are dirty like herpes, but harder to catch, like an escape tunnel in prison I started from scratch.”

Immortal Technique

Industrial Revolution
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“You can make the future, but it starts with leaving the past”

Immortal Technique

Leaving the Past
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“But liberty, to be loved on the surface is worthless”

Immortal Technique

Crimes Of The Heart
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)

“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.”

Immortal Technique

Industrial Revolution
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“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.”

Immortal Technique

The Poverty of Philosophy
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 1 (2001)

“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.”

Immortal Technique

The 4th Branch
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“But you can't read history at an illiterate stage / And you can't raise a family on minimum wage”

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Harlem Streets
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“This is the point from which I can never return, and if I back down now then forever I burn. This is the point from which I can never retreat cause if I turn back now there can never be peace. This is the point from which I will die or succeed, living the struggle, I know I'm alive when I bleed. From now on it can never be the same as before, cause the place that I'm from doesn't exist any more”

Immortal Technique

The Point of No Return
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“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”

Immortal Technique

Speak Your Mind
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 1 (2001)

“A toast to the dead, for children with cancer and AIDS; a cure exists, and you probably could have been saved.”

Immortal Technique

"A Toast to the Dead"
, 2011

“The first payback that i would accomplish: i'd draft children from the senate and congress”

Immortal Technique

Payback
Albums, The 3rd World (2008)

“And just so conservatives don't take it to heart, I don't think Bush did it, Cuz he isn't that smart.”

Immortal Technique

The Cause of Death
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

“And Dick Cheney, you fuckin leech, tell them your plans. About building your pipelines through Afghanistan. And how Israeli troops trained the Taliban in Pakistan.”

Immortal Technique

The Cause of Death
Albums, Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2003)

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