Portrait Of: Immortal Technique
Latino USA
My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:48.0 | From Futuro Media, it's Latino USA. I'm Maria Inojosa. |
| 0:56.0 | MOTAL TECHNIQUE |
| 1:00.0 | Immortal techniques stuck in your thoughts, stalking and dreams. No one's as good as me. |
| 1:04.0 | It just got better marketing schemes. |
| 1:06.0 | Born in Peru, as Felipe Coronel, Immortal technique is a legendary underground hip-hop artist known for his skills on the mic, as well as for his raw, super political lyrics. |
| 1:20.0 | His family immigrated to Harlem, New York, from Peru when he was just a toddler to escape the armed conflict there. |
| 1:44.0 | He grew up in Harlem during the 80s and 90s, at a time when New York City was notoriously rough. |
| 1:51.0 | Check the check, cast and struggled to make the payments, working your whole life wondering where the day went. |
| 1:56.0 | This always stays packed like a multicultural slave ship. |
| 1:59.0 | It's rush hour, 230 to 8 non-stopping, and people coming home after corporate sharecropping. |
| 2:05.0 | Felipe says that because of the way that he grew up, he harbored a lot of rage, and eventually that rage led him to prison. |
| 2:14.0 | He was incarcerated for a year during his college years for assault-related offenses. |
| 2:20.0 | While he was in prison, he honed his rapping skills, and when he was paroled in 1999, he took up freestyle rap badly, and he became a champion in the underground New York City badly seen. |
| 2:33.0 | Just two years later, he released his first album, Revolutionary Volume One, which launched him to fame, eventually collaborating with famous artists such as Dead Press, Most Death, and Chuck D of Public Enemy. |
| 2:47.0 | But his brutal song, Dance with the Devil, is what he mostly became known for. |
| 2:59.0 | Immortal technique is still writing music, and his fans are holding their breath for the release of his first album in over ten years. |
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