I met some brothers out from Canada recently who are real cool people. They make Spanish-language music called Cold Blue and I met then at a Lat-Rap conference and they seem like real good peoples from Central America... and that's what it is. It's just based on mutual respect. So when I meet people like that I'm like, "if y'all going to be real with me, I'm going to be real with y'all" and that's all it takes.
Immortal TechniqueI think that some people from other regions expect us to be like that so I think they overcompensate for that sometimes and they're victims to their own insecurity.
Immortal TechniqueI hate it when they tell us how far we've came to be; as if our people's history started with slavery.
Immortal TechniqueRead about the history of the place that we live in and stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children
Immortal TechniqueWhen you talk about revolution, it's very easy to romanticize picking up a gun or marching in the street, but I think before we take any of those actions, violence of course being the last one, we first have to have a revolution of the mind.
Immortal TechniqueThe way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening to America. It used to be about, or tried to be at the very beginning, about what was right. It has stopped being what was right for America; it started being about what was right for companies that are in control.
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