Immortal technique 3rd world remix
What drew you to work with that organization?Ī: It”s a traditionally powerful organization. Q: You”ve performed at benefits and conducted workshops on the music industry with the Watsonville Brown Berets the past couple of years. Immortal Technique talked with “The Beat” in advance of his new album release, speaking on his relationship with The Brown Berets, his essay contest for high school students and whether hip-hop culture and music can spark a revolution. Locally, he has conducted workshops and performed benefits for the Watsonville Brown Berets, the Chicano activist organization that formed during the Vietnam War-protest era as the Latino answer to the Black Panther Party. While doing big things on a national level, Tech, born in Peru, has maintained a strong foothold as a grassroots activist and organizer. Teaming with DJ Green Lantern (former tour DJ for Eminem), the disc is formatted like a street mixtape, with the voice drops, cuts and scratches that are a staple of the underground template. His latest album, “The Third World,” will release Tuesday. “I pledge no allegiance … (to) the president”s speeches/I”m baptized in America, and covered in leeches/ The dirty water that bleaches your soul and your facial features /Drownin” you in propaganda that they spit through the speakers” His angry attacks on post-911 government propaganda manifest in his most popular songs, particularly the remix to “Bin Laden” featuring Mos Def. Tech”s rhymes are detailed attacks on social and political nemeses, from social injustice to poverty to calls for a government coup. Representing New York City via his neighborhood, Harlem, USA, Immortal Technique”s (Tech to friends and reporters) agit-prop hip-hop is the evolution of political and gangsta rap. The ferocity and fury of black power rappers like Chuck D and KRS-ONE lives inside the mouth of Immortal Technique.