Over at The Well Versed, Tech opens up about music business, his disappointment with Black and Latino executives and why keeping it real tends to backfire on emcees.
TWV: When I listen to a lot of stuff available commercially right now, as catchy as the beat or hook might be, it feels like we’re regressing. We’re seeing a resurgence of drug use in rap. Do you feel like a lot of this is counterproductive?
IT: People do live that life; a lot of people who rhyme don’t live that life. You can make slick metaphors about shooting people or kilos but that doesn’t describe what it is to be a hustler. I’m not going to act like I was a drug dealer, but my exposure to that side of the world let me understand the differences to know what it’s like when one of my people says I can’t do this. I sold crack to a pregnant woman. My man was hurt about that. Why? Because he’s a fucking human being. At the end of the day, let’s stop pretending we’re not human beings; you want to be a big scary individual? You want to see a man cry like a baby, call him up and tell him you’ve got his kid hostage and you’re going to cut his fingers off every minute you don’t get your money.
People want to be so in character that the moment they have to be so out of character, their psychology is shattered. People need to realize that when Al Pacino plays a role, it’s different for our people. Nobody believes Al Pacino is Scarface. The police aren’t running up in his crib looking for M-16’s and grenade launchers. People think that what these rappers say is what they really live and some of you are so stupid that you are saying shit that you’re really doing.
That’s not OG behavior, OG’s are saying “I don’t know nothing about that, I don’t know who got shot, that’s got nothing to do with me.”
READ: Immortal Technique – The Message And The Music
Amen
Nobody listens to this delusional paranoid idiot.
Technique >
NIGGA SPEAKING THE TRUTH HIP-HOP IS DEAD NAS WAS RIGHT!
SMH @ WHAT THE MUSIC INDUSTRY HAS COME TO THANK GOD I GREW UP IN THE 90′S AND NOT IN THIS ERA OF TIGHT JEANS, LADA GAGA OR MAN GAGA, AND JUSTIN BIEBER
I LOVE MY CNN, MOBB DEEP, WU-TANG, BIGGIE, DMX, BIG PUN, D.I.T.C , CHILDREN OF THE CORN, BIG L , LOST BOYZ, GRAVEDIGGAZ, NAS, AZ, ONYX, BONE THUGS, PAC, TRIBE CALLED QUEST, ETC
Real talk. Immortal Technique.
@facemask ignorance is bliss
Real rap! People get lost in misconceptions and end up claiming or representing something that in reality is far from what they believe to be right..Thats why many Black and Latino brothers and sisters are afriad to be themselves so instead they try to live up to some false persona that have been force-fed to them by puppets who are in the same position but are being “payed” for it
JETLIFE period
Fuck this wack nigga. Nigga one of those lame conspiracy theorists
Co-Sign
Tech is the realest out
technique didn’t sell crack to no1….dude went to Penn State University….
Lil wayne made it cool for nobodies to act like fake “bloods” on the net of course, on youtube or twitter, not REAL LIFE! fake rap is gay
technique> your life
People think that what these rappers say is what they really live and some of you are so stupid that you are saying shit that you’re really doing.
TRUTH!
FUCK IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE
He gives off a ‘holier-than-thou’ like persona, that’s the only persona that makes me think he’s a faggot
Tech is dope… i dnt beleive all his conspiracy theries and shit but hes got dope bars! and its dumb to disagree or say fuck em cause what he said her was real talk…
^^ dont we all. im only 21 and have been stuck on 90s to 2003 rap since 2006. you get a few good rappers here n there like saigon, jay elec, but they dont do shit. i stay listening to the same old nas, wu tang 24/7. not hatin it, but the new rappers gotta put some good shit out. ( act 2 still waitin < ) smh.
someone needs to get this guy a padded cell already.
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lol u guys probably offended cos he implyin ur idol rick false. lol.
I dig what he’s saying but I can’t listen to his album all day every day, he just needs to lower his paranoia a little. Even Rakim had to tone himself down so people could understand him. By the way the message from Scarface was don’t sell drugs, it’ll fuck you up real bad not let’s go mobbing, “selling” coke.
Too many “Rapp Snitch Knishes”…
You guys are a joke, Immortal Technique is not a conspiracy theories, a lot of the things he talks about are based on facts (too bad many of you dont know that due to our shitty educational system) but anyways is okay if you disagree with his politics is alright. He is on point when it comes to the music business.
RichCITY510 < cmooooon we all watched scarface, how many of ur friends said yo im anti drugs after that or did they say cool!!!
#letsberealforasecond
Why does a dude have to be paranoid because his theories and/or sentiments don’t exactly match what the majority of people believe? The world is probably still flat to you guys.
“You could call it conspiracy theory, i dont give a mother fuck, you could get ya mother fucked”
Really though, did you guys even read the interview? obviously yall read the comments, cuz when your talkin’ shit you say the same shit, ‘paranoid’ or ‘bullshit’ or ‘idiot’.
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The anti- Immortal Tech comments obviously expose you as an un=informed bullshitter. Get ya Tea Party repubdickin ass outta here. Y’all always pop up on IT posts!
Okay, can people have a different opinion other than liking him? I just don’t like the fact that he fits in that whole conscious rap ‘I’m better than you cause I don’t listen to Gucci’ type shit, and dick riding fans act the same way. Like fuck yall, just cause someone else doesn’t like him isn’t your cue to suck his dick and spray his sperm on the rest of us.
this was interesting
**sigh** sublims anyone?
Wow smh @ some of u niggas.
Tech is deff a conspiracy theorist, anti-political whateverthefuck. I am personally not a fan AT ALL…but he is no where near a bad RAPPER.
But you cant deny hes speaking truth in this interview. The music business is fucked up. Labels are looking for young kids to sign a 360 and get raped all the way around. The only thing i disagree with is: If you are a WHITE rapper….you are just as likely to get raped by the industry as a latin or african american artist.
A lot of you talk as if conspiracy theories are some far out hypothetical situations that have no possibility of happening. That’s Immortal’s claim to fame, and so be it. He tries to get people to be educated about what is going on, what may be going on and what is and can happen.
But what in the interview has to do with any conspiracy theory? Everything he said was real talk. He’s saying there’s a lot of bitch made niggaz in hip hop that are selling people lies and sheeple are buying it up as if it’s the truth. There’s no conspiracy in that train of thought.
It’s the same shit with this guy….seems to talk a lot of shit about the things that make it possible for him to be successful. Yes the US isn’t perfect and the rap game is full of commercial/mainstream music, but without these you wouldn’t have an outlet to make a living.
ive always wondered why rappers talk about shooting people like theyre confessing to their own crimes on records, you don’t do that it’s like proof/evidence on audio, never heard anyone speak out about that on a track before
That’s real talk!
I’m 20 now and been bumpin’ Tech since I was 13…One of the illest alive!!! VIVA LA REVOLUCION!!!!!