Felipe Andres Coronel (born February 19, 1978), better known by the stage n… Read Full Bio ↴Felipe Andres Coronel (born February 19, 1978), better known by the stage name Immortal Technique, is a Peruvian rapper, and an urban activist. He was born in Lima, Peru and raised in Harlem, New York. Most of his lyrics focus on controversial issues in global politics. The views expressed in his lyrics are largely a mixture of socialist commentary on issues such as class hierarchy, poverty, religion, government and institutional racism.
Immortal Technique has voiced a desire to keep 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 200,000 units of his three official releases.
Biography
Early life
Coronel is African-Peruvian and was born in 1978 in a military hospital in Lima. His family emigrated in 1980 to Harlem to escape the ongoing internal conflict in Peru. During his teenage years he was arrested multiple times due in part to what he has said was "selfish and childish" behavior. He attended Hunter College High School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Shortly after enrolling in Pennsylvania State University, he was arrested and charged with assault-related offenses due to his involvement in an altercation between fellow students, the charges stemming from this incident led to him being incarcerated for a year. After being paroled, he took political science classes at Baruch College in New York City for two semesters at the behest of his father, who allowed Coronel to live with him on the condition that he go to school. Honing his rapping skills in jail, and unable to find decent wage-paying employment after his release, Coronel began working on the restaurants of New York while bad mouthing MCs whenever the opportunity arose. This, coupled with his victories in numerous freestyle rap competitions of the New York underground hip hop scene such as Rocksteady Anniversary, Braggin Rites and others, led to his reputation as a ferocious Battle MC.
Revolutionary Vol.1 and Vol.2
In 2001 , Immortal Technique released his first album Revolutionary Vol. 1 without the help of a record label or distribution, instead using money earned from his rap battle triumphs. Revolutionary Vol. 1 also contained the underground classic Dance With The Devil. In November 2002, he was listed by The Source in its "Unsigned Hype" column, highlighting artists that are not signed to a record label. The following year, in September 2003, he received the coveted "Hip Hop Quotable" in The Source for a song entitled "Industrial Revolution" from his second album. Immortal Technique is the only rapper in history to have a "Hip Hop Quotable" while being unsigned. He released his second album Revolutionary Vol. 2 in 2003. In 2004, Viper Records and, in 2005, Babygrande Records re-released Immortal Technique's debut, Revolutionary Vol. 1, to make it available to a wider audience. "Point of No Return" from Revolutionary Vol 2 was used as the entrance theme for Rashad Evans during the UFC 88 Main Event between Chuck Liddell and Rashad Evans.
The 3rd World and The Middle Passage
Between 2005 and 2007 Immortal Technique began working on The Middle Passage and The 3rd World, the two albums that would serve a follow up to Revolutionary Vol. 2 and complete the series. He was also featured on several movie soundtracks and video game soundtracks, all the while touring relentlessly and becoming heavily involved in visiting prisons to speak to youth and working with immigrant rights activists and raising tens of thousands of dollars for children’s hospitals overseas. He invested his money not in items that are usually associated with fame but rather in large pieces of farmland in Latin America. He created a writing grant program for high school students as well.
Immortal Technique has voiced a desire to keep 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 200,000 units of his three official releases.
Biography
Early life
Coronel is African-Peruvian and was born in 1978 in a military hospital in Lima. His family emigrated in 1980 to Harlem to escape the ongoing internal conflict in Peru. During his teenage years he was arrested multiple times due in part to what he has said was "selfish and childish" behavior. He attended Hunter College High School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Shortly after enrolling in Pennsylvania State University, he was arrested and charged with assault-related offenses due to his involvement in an altercation between fellow students, the charges stemming from this incident led to him being incarcerated for a year. After being paroled, he took political science classes at Baruch College in New York City for two semesters at the behest of his father, who allowed Coronel to live with him on the condition that he go to school. Honing his rapping skills in jail, and unable to find decent wage-paying employment after his release, Coronel began working on the restaurants of New York while bad mouthing MCs whenever the opportunity arose. This, coupled with his victories in numerous freestyle rap competitions of the New York underground hip hop scene such as Rocksteady Anniversary, Braggin Rites and others, led to his reputation as a ferocious Battle MC.
Revolutionary Vol.1 and Vol.2
In 2001 , Immortal Technique released his first album Revolutionary Vol. 1 without the help of a record label or distribution, instead using money earned from his rap battle triumphs. Revolutionary Vol. 1 also contained the underground classic Dance With The Devil. In November 2002, he was listed by The Source in its "Unsigned Hype" column, highlighting artists that are not signed to a record label. The following year, in September 2003, he received the coveted "Hip Hop Quotable" in The Source for a song entitled "Industrial Revolution" from his second album. Immortal Technique is the only rapper in history to have a "Hip Hop Quotable" while being unsigned. He released his second album Revolutionary Vol. 2 in 2003. In 2004, Viper Records and, in 2005, Babygrande Records re-released Immortal Technique's debut, Revolutionary Vol. 1, to make it available to a wider audience. "Point of No Return" from Revolutionary Vol 2 was used as the entrance theme for Rashad Evans during the UFC 88 Main Event between Chuck Liddell and Rashad Evans.
The 3rd World and The Middle Passage
Between 2005 and 2007 Immortal Technique began working on The Middle Passage and The 3rd World, the two albums that would serve a follow up to Revolutionary Vol. 2 and complete the series. He was also featured on several movie soundtracks and video game soundtracks, all the while touring relentlessly and becoming heavily involved in visiting prisons to speak to youth and working with immigrant rights activists and raising tens of thousands of dollars for children’s hospitals overseas. He invested his money not in items that are usually associated with fame but rather in large pieces of farmland in Latin America. He created a writing grant program for high school students as well.
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@simpwithadollarsign9988
This part used to go over my head when I used to listen to this but sheesh the meaning! They say the rebels in Iraq still fight for Saddam
But that's bullshit, I'll show you why it's totally wrong
'Cause if another country invaded the hood tonight
It'd be warfare through Harlem and Washington Heights
I wouldn't be fightin' for Bush or White America's dream
I'd be fightin' for my people's survival and self-esteem
I wouldn't fight for racist churches from the South, my nigga
I'd be fightin' to keep the occupation out, my nigga
You ever clock someone who talk shit or look at you wrong?
Imagine if they shot at you and was r*pin' your moms
@ZahqiNazeer-se5js
"And the Great Whites, they Fight,
Like they just, ain't Right,
And might see Hell, so they chase it,
Like they See the Light.
You know the Dread,
He Stays in them Trees,
like Keebler Elves,
Growing Wings, From These Things,
Then We Bale." ~The Mountain.
@ZahqiNazeer-se5js
"The writings from olden days,...
tell of strange things and of Great Happenings, in the Times of our fathers', who lived in, the Beginning. All men can know of such Times, as it is declared in, the Book of Ages, but the gods Had Their Birth, in Events and Things Which Were, in the Beginning.
It is told, in the CourtYards, that There Was a Time, When Heaven and Earth were not apart. Truth echoes, even There, for Heaven and Earth Are,...
yet joined, in men.
(So man as a child should be nutured without perversions, so man can Ascend, as a Child. Then gentiles, would be able to count on their just deeds towards them. As well as their prayers.)
It is written that God once (Upon a Time, in the future, at the End of the Age. Would)
~Walk the Earth With man and dwelt within a cave (a public bathroom) above (after) a garden (My Commonwealth and Property Escrow)
~where man laboured.
God Encompasses all that is and cannot be contained in a cave.~
(Denying My Commonwealth harvest and redemption, breaking the contract of the Federal Reserve commodities, of the True and Living Beings, Native to this Planet.)
~Look to the Sacred Writings for Truth. It is (Also) told that woman made God angry~
(because they had some of My Commonwealth, but would not come and help Me, although they knew My whereabouts. Not 70,0000 women,... and not even 7 woman, as the written prophecy survived.)
~and He Took Himself into the Sky,
(On a Virmana.)
Removing Heaven from man because of his disgust for~ (brainwashed greedy and wicked minded)
~woman. It is also told that man offended God by imitating Him.
(Trying to take over My Bridal Chamber, My daughters, My Calfs, Knowledge and Achievements,..) ~These are (Only) tales made by Man.~
(The tales of bearers of false witness, called Satan and his Pluribus, are what Made All the Stars, Fall, From Heaven.)
~This is not Wisdom, for the Sacred Writings Reveal the Plans of God and These Things, cannot be as told. It is the talk of the CourtYards."
@ZahqiNazeer-se5js
*Birth Of YawDaBadYouth And The Forces Of Darkness.
After the Nature of the Immortals Was (Pluribus or A Multitude), Completed Out Of, The Infinite One (The Unum), then a likeness called Sophia Flowed Out Of Sofia, With the Wish That, something Should Come into being, like The Light, That First Existed. Immediately!,.. Her wish Appeared!,. as a Heavenly likeness,... with an incomprehensible greatness. This Came BeTween the Immortals and those who Came, into being, After Them, like What Is Above. It Was a Veil,...
(Hold up. YawDaBadYouth Produced offspring, like Jealousy, which was against, the Righteous Ones in Heaven. Sending bad vibes and waiting for a catch. Like a wicked YouTube music video.)
separating people~ (peephole of God, of the Lower 6 Heavens.. Al SayBahYouth Had to Fight His Way Up and Out of The 6th Heavens, by being Granted Arch Angels, by Sofia, to Help Him, Gain Control Over Chaos, by Transcending their Depth, Up To The New Heavenly Heights, of the Below, the 7th Plateau Holy Sea Platform, from Where, He Ruled.)
~from The Things Above.
Now, The Eternal Realm Of Truth... Has no Shadow within it,...
(As it is written, "In the Father, There Is no Darkness, at all.")
because the Immeasurable Light Is, EveryWhere, Within The Eternal Realm Of Truth.
Outside Of The Eternal Realm Of Truth, however..., is a Shadow, and it was called Darkness. From The Eternal Realm Of Truth, Appeared A Power Over, The Darkness. And The Powers That Came, InTo Being Afterwards,... Called the Power, The Limitless Chaos.
From The Limitless Chaos (I Just Checked, He's One Of Mine, All The Powers of the Lower Heavens.), Every Kind Of Deity Was, Brought Forth, One, After Another,... along with The Whole Place. Consequently, The Power too, is subsequent, to what Was,... in The Beginning. The Shadow Appeared in the Abyss, Which Is,.... Derived from Pistis, Whom We Have mentioned. (His Zelem or HouseHold Image Had Sofia, as His Other Half.). ~On the Origin of the world.
@MichaelSmith-kl5dt
It’s amazing how many people forgot. Its even more amazing how many people never knew.
@djuarez00juarez78
🔥 I remember hearing this banger as a kid. Immortal Technique for life
@krazykat122
Immortal technique spitting facts for time.
@MrSNK
You know why we're here today.
@STiiiZ-O
Keeping this word alive
@uberhaxornovauber8315
Especially rn
@velvetrat5114
The best song ever.
@orlandomorales479
Bless ya vision,B! This is the original hip hop path.not where sellouts took and leave it,SHEOUL!
@simpwithadollarsign9988
This part used to go over my head when I used to listen to this but sheesh the meaning! They say the rebels in Iraq still fight for Saddam
But that's bullshit, I'll show you why it's totally wrong
'Cause if another country invaded the hood tonight
It'd be warfare through Harlem and Washington Heights
I wouldn't be fightin' for Bush or White America's dream
I'd be fightin' for my people's survival and self-esteem
I wouldn't fight for racist churches from the South, my nigga
I'd be fightin' to keep the occupation out, my nigga
You ever clock someone who talk shit or look at you wrong?
Imagine if they shot at you and was r*pin' your moms
@mikebond3210
Damn thats was deep