I would say that everyone that you see who is successful in the mainstream, at the top of Billboard, who has a Top 40 hit... at some point, unless they're a complete fabrication of the industry with no identity of their own and a carbon copy clone of someone else, they in themselves started out being underground.
Immortal TechniqueI put the truth out there, I put the historical facts into Hip Hop to show us how much history repeats itself and that if we truly want to evolve as a human race, we need to stop sticking each other in ridiculous categories.
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 jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard
Immortal TechniqueI wasn't always a revolutionary, I used to live life like a criminal even though I was going through high school or college, or the fact that I was smart, had no bearing on that. People can have intelligence all the way but have no direction. Not all criminals are idiots.
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