Dance With Technique (Meditation # 1 )

-IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE-


Felipe Andres Coronel was born February 19, 1978 in Lima Peru. He later moved to Harlem, New York where he picked up most of his rap influence. Technique has always spoken the truth and speaks on very real terms about worldly debates. He has been an active MC in the rap freestyle scene and brought a lot of hype to himself over 8 years ago at different rap battles. Though still active in the underground art of free-styling he has began to produce many of his own albums in recent years. Such albums include both Revolutionary volumes 1 and 2 , as well as The 3rd World, Summer Visions, and other various mixtapes. Felipe Coronel uses many parts of speech in his raps and sells himself as a rapper without talking about himself constantly. He uses many different media meditations in his lyrics as well, some include...



Freedom of Speech

"Fuck a middle man, I won't pay anyone else
I'll bootleg it and sell it to the streets my self
I'd rather be that than signed and stuck on a shelf
And because of this executives try to diss me
Racism frozen in time like Walt Disney"

This is a great example of one of the seven principles, value messages. The long loved Disney corporation that we all enjoy so much is being directly attacked for it so called "racist" values. This is a controversial topic and very common for Immortal Technique to attack. Let's just say large corporations arent his thing.

Harlem Streets

"It's like Cambodia the killing fields uptown
We live in distress and hang the flag upside down
The sound of conservative politicians on television
People in the hood are blind so they tell us to listen."

This is the beginning to the second verse of Harlem Streets, a song from Revolutionary Volume 2. It includes the words "we" and "us". These words are commonly used to persuade via group dynamic. He is almost speaking out to people that either agree with him or live directly in the streets where he is from. He always stays loyal to where he is from and continues to use strong lyrical vocabulary.


The Cause Of Death

"Dick Chaney you fucking leach, tell them your plans, about building those pipelines through Afghanistan. "

This is direct use of name calling. This is a personal attack on a political figure and clearly shows now mercy the individual. Immortal Technique constantly has strong opinions and clearly vocalizes them in his raps.


The 4th Branch

"Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs
Broken apart like a woman's heart, abused in a marriage
The brink of holy war, bottled up, like a miscarriage
Embedded correspondents don't tell the source of the tension
And they refuse to even mention, European intervention
Or the massacres in Jenin, the innocent screams
U.S. manufactured missles, and M-16's
Weapon contracts and corrupted American dreams
Media censorship, blocking out the video screens
A continent of oil kingdoms, bought for a bargain
Democracy is just a word, when the people are starvin'
The average citizen, made to be, blind to the reason
A desert full of genocide, where the bodies are freezin'
And the world doesn't believe that you fightin' for freedom
Cause you fucked the Middle East, and gave birth to a demon".

These lyrics mention Arabs, media, and oil prices. It also refers to the war with the last sentence and the constant environmental struggle we face. We have talked a lot about these topics in class and these lyrics direct relate to a lot of which we have been speaking about.


CRIMES OF THE HEART