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Latino USA

Portrait Of: Immortal Technique

Latino USA

My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts

Politics, Society & Culture, News, Documentary

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Portrait Of: Immortal Technique

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0:00.0

Futuro

0:02.0

From Futuro

0:11.0

It's Latino USA

0:13.0

I'm Maria Inojosa

0:15.0

Immortal Techniques St stuck in your thoughts, talking in dreams, no one's as good as me,

0:27.3

they just got better marketing schemes.

0:29.0

Born in Peru as Felipe Coronel, Immortal Technique is a legendary underground hip-hop artist,

0:35.9

known for his skills on the mic, as well as for his

0:38.9

raw, super political lyrics.

0:41.1

... is sponsored by corporations.

0:43.8

That's why Halliburton gets paid to rebuild nations.

0:46.9

Tell me the truth.

0:48.0

I don't scare into paralysis.

0:50.1

I know the CIA saw him been landing on dialysis.

0:53.2

In 98, when he was top 10 for the FBI.

0:56.5

Government ties is really why the government lies.

0:59.6

His family immigrated to Harlem, New York, from Peru, when he was just a toddler to escape the armed conflict there.

1:06.9

He grew up in Harlem during the 80s and 90s at a time when New York City was notoriously rough.

1:12.9

Check to check, constant struggle to make the payments, working your whole life wondering where the day went.

1:18.6

The subway stays packed like a multicultural slave ship.

1:21.7

It's rush hour, 2.30 to 8 non-stopping, and people coming home after corporate sharecropping.

1:28.2

Felipe says that because of the way that he grew up, he harbored a lot of rage.

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