I don't need to put jewels on to make myself feel important. I'd rather drop them for the benefit of less fortunate people. I don't need to put gold on my body, and I'm not criticizing people who do, but for me, I'd rather be around my family and see them be happy because that's worth more to me than gold.
Immortal TechniqueWorking your whole life wondering where the day went, the subway stays packed like a multicultural slaveship.
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 TechniqueI 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.
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