Today, Immortal Technique spends his time working on philanthropic causes, but he’s still writing music and fans are holding their breath for the release of his first album in over a decade. His brutal song “Dance with the Devil” is what he mostly became known for. 1, which launched him to fame-eventually collaborating with famous artists such as Dead Prez, Mos Def, and Chuck D of Public Enemy.

Just two years later in 2001, he released his first album Revolutionary Vol. While in prison, he honed his rapping skills and when he was paroled in 1999, he took up freestyle rap battling and became a champion in the underground NYC battling scene. He was incarcerated for a year while he was in college, for assault-related offenses. The first three albums are fantastic, Midnight Marauders is my. What these guys made is absolute hip-hop perfection. Well this year I finally started checking out a lot of old school classics, and last week was time for Tribe. Technique says because of the way he grew up, he harbored a lot of rage and eventually, that rage led him to prison. Im 23yo, been a hip-hop fan my whole life, but Ive almost always listened to artists that came up in the 2000s/2010s. He grew up in Harlem during the 80s and 90s during a time that was notoriously rough in New York City. His family immigrated to Harlem from Peru when he was a toddler to escape armed conflict and economic instability in Peru. Felipe Coronel, aka Immortal Technique, is a legendary underground hip-hop artist, known for his skills on the mic as well as his raw, highly political lyrics.

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