It can inspire, it can explain, it can shed light on situations. He learned from me and I learned from him. We’re not sitting here claiming to be the most persecuted people in the world, but we want recognition for how we’ve been wronged in our community and also want ways to enable ourselves to correct that wrong. The Peruvian-American rapper became well-known for his first album in 2001, "Revolutionary Vol. Not that I won’t work with other people, but it’s just a question of whoever seems to be more structured and can tell me exactly what they need from me as opposed to people who make me play a guessing game. If it has a sample or it sounds like a Down South beat, I don’t care as long as it fits the concept of the record. What would you say is your most memorable live experience? But soon after frying small fish in the local rap scene, his aim was set higher, his pen locked and loaded for bigger targets. Felipe Coronel, aka Immortal Technique, is a legendary underground hip-hop artist known for his skills on the mic and his raw, highly political lyrics. If we look at comedy, from Lenny Bruce to Chris Rock, entertainment is saturated with a great deal of personal and national politics. It taught me a lot, and I’m very grateful for that chapter in my life. We take samples but we recreate them. Aside from touring, what has kept you from releasing an album in the past four years? I write all the time, so I wanted to let kids know that I make money off of writing. And I think reading a lot feeds my memory more so than writing. I think it taught me that I can’t spend my career as a battle rapper; otherwise I wouldn’t be anywhere. Is there any specific kind of production that you favor? After that, things started to move at a thousand miles per second. I think there are some people who have taken their career as a battle rapper and have used it to help them in what they wanted to do. I find it to be more efficient to focus on the music and what I need to get done and then keep it moving. A lot of people like bringing beer and liquor and smoke weed, and that’s fine for them if that’s the way they work better. Not on small, specific issues, but compromises about themselves. People’s personal issues with what I’m trying to do and the message I’m trying to spread are inconsequential compared to the final result that needs to be achieved. Tell us about the high school writing contest you launched. I like to have a good time, but I believe in getting work done before that. Immortal Technique pulled over to the side of the road to have this Zoom conversation. REVOLT.TV is home to exclusive interviews from rising stars to the biggest entertainers and public figures of today. There are things we can learn from developing countries that can better the system that we have. Immortal Technique: Interview Immortal Technique has always been a tough opponent to face. I don’t feel that I fit into any of them. I don’t like a big procession of niggas in the studio with me when I work. Most rappers that feel insecure about the fact that their music has no message usually have the following argument: Hip-hop is just about entertainment, the rest of ya’ll are taking it to another degree. 3 and The Middle Passage; both of those projects are half-done, and a lot of work went into that. I’ve seen what they can do; they’ll tear people’s lives apart. Because the people that destroy our community, the traditional powers that have kept us oppressed, those people are not the ones we can rely on to free ourselves. I’m all for being self-determined and being more responsible, not just throwing the blame on other people. It’s in our arrogance and unwillingness to accept different ideas that we find the beginning of our own failure. If you decide to stab his wife and kid that are right there in the corner of the room, I bear some of that responsibility. But look, there’s nothing cool about that. I think the writing helps express my thoughts and enables me to articulate a lot more.

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