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Caught In A Hustle - Immortal Technique



     
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They say the odds against me are crooked and impossible
Like I was born with a hole in my heart is an obstacle
I was left to die by the doctors in the Children's Hospital
But I never lose hope, success is psychologicalThe world is volatile and the street is my education
Shaping the nation like the blueprint of a mason
While Shawshank record deals get you raped on occasion
So I'm focused on my economic situationI'm like the little kids on TV that dig through the trash
I hustle regardless of the way you talk shit and laugh
A lot of niggaz drop science but they don't know the math
Because their mind is narrower than the righteous pathIt's funny how on the block niggaz will kill you for cash
But never raise the gun and cry out, "Freedom at last"
The cold war is over but the world is still gettin' colder
Atlas walking through the projects with the hood on my shouldersI would like to raise my children to grow to be soldiers
But then the general would decide when their life would be over
So I work hard until my personality split
Like the Black Panthers, into the Bloods and the CripsThey said I would never be shit but now I sit and reminisce
Like Yeshua Ben Yusef flippin' through Genesis
Ignorance is venomous and it murders the soul

Spreading like a virus running rampant but out of controlSo if I should ever fall and get caught in a hustle
Let them know that I died while I fought in a struggle
From the hood rats to the rich kids lost in a bubble
Spray painting on the streets and at the subway tunnelsWrite it down and remember that we never gave in
The mind of a child is where the revolution begins
So if the solution has never been to look in yourself
How is it that you expect to find it anywhere else?Immortal Technique in the streets, back on the hustle
'Cause three strikes will get you life for stuffin' cracks in a duffel
Upstate behind steel gates, intact in the scuffle
Razor blades stuck on the side of pencils, hacked to your muscleBut the emptiness is what bleeds you to death when it cuts you
And it's the lawyers, not the inmates scheming to fuck you
Trying to fight the system from inside eventually corrupts you
But that's what you get when you put a corporation above youAnd it's the people that love you that seem to hurt you the most
Sometimes when they die, you find yourself cursing their ghost
But you make success, nobody delivers your fate
Sometimes you give and you take
Since prehistoric vertebrates crawled out of the lakesAnd that's the truth about life
Or to do it to ghetto and your car, rims and your ice
Because even though we survived through the struggle that made us
We still look at ourselves through the eyes of people that hate usBut I'm going to make it regardless of the trumped up charges
And semi-automatic barrages that empty the cartridge
Post-traumatically scar kids that try to be brave
Because niggaz back stab each other, just to try to get paidTurn cannibal like knights during the Crusades
Afraid of responsibility, addicted to greed
Beating their girls purposefully, losing a seed
As if we were bound to the destiny we used to receiveSo if I should ever fall and get caught in a hustle
Let them know that I died while I fought in a struggle
From the hood rats to the rich kids lost in a bubble
Spray painting on the streets and at the subway tunnelsWrite it down and remember that we never gave in
The mind of a child is where the revolution begins
So if the solution has never been to look in yourself
How is it that you expect to find it anywhere else?I used to wonder about people who don't believe in themselves
(I used to wonder)
But then I saw the way that they portrayed us to everyone else
That cursed us, then only see the worst in ourselves
Blind to the fact the whole time we were hurting ourselvesI used to wonder about people who don't believe in themselves
(I used to wonder)
But then I saw the way that they portrayed us to everyone else
That cursed us, then only see the worst in ourselves
blind to the fact the whole time we were hurting ourselves
I used to wonder
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Felipe Andres Coronel (born February 19, 1978), better known by the stage name Immortal Technique, is a Peruvian rapper, and an urban activist. He was born in Lima, Peru and raised in Harlem, New York. Most of his lyrics focus on controversial issues in global politics. The views expressed in his lyrics are largely a mixture of socialist commentary on issues such as class hierarchy, poverty, religion, government and institutional racism.

Immortal Technique has voiced a desire to keep control over his production, and has stated in his music that record companies, not artists themselves, profit the most from mass production and marketing of music. He claimed in an interview to have sold close to 200,000 units of his three official releases.


Biography
Early life
Coronel is African-Peruvian and was born in 1978 in a military hospital in Lima. His family emigrated in 1980 to Harlem to escape the ongoing internal conflict in Peru. During his teenage years he was arrested multiple times due in part to what he has said was "selfish and childish" behavior. He attended Hunter College High School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Shortly after enrolling in Pennsylvania State University, he was arrested and charged with assault-related offenses due to his involvement in an altercation between fellow students, the charges stemming from this incident led to him being incarcerated for a year. After being paroled, he took political science classes at Baruch College in New York City for two semesters at the behest of his father, who allowed Coronel to live with him on the condition that he go to school. Honing his rapping skills in jail, and unable to find decent wage-paying employment after his release, Coronel began working on the restaurants of New York while bad mouthing MCs whenever the opportunity arose. This, coupled with his victories in numerous freestyle rap competitions of the New York underground hip hop scene such as Rocksteady Anniversary, Braggin Rites and others, led to his reputation as a ferocious Battle MC.

Revolutionary Vol.1 and Vol.2
In 2001 , Immortal Technique released his first album Revolutionary Vol. 1 without the help of a record label or distribution, instead using money earned from his rap battle triumphs. Revolutionary Vol. 1 also contained the underground classic Dance With The Devil. In November 2002, he was listed by The Source in its "Unsigned Hype" column, highlighting artists that are not signed to a record label. The following year, in September 2003, he received the coveted "Hip Hop Quotable" in The Source for a song entitled "Industrial Revolution" from his second album. Immortal Technique is the only rapper in history to have a "Hip Hop Quotable" while being unsigned. He released his second album Revolutionary Vol. 2 in 2003. In 2004, Viper Records and, in 2005, Babygrande Records re-released Immortal Technique's debut, Revolutionary Vol. 1, to make it available to a wider audience. "Point of No Return" from Revolutionary Vol 2 was used as the entrance theme for Rashad Evans during the UFC 88 Main Event between Chuck Liddell and Rashad Evans.

The 3rd World and The Middle Passage

Between 2005 and 2007 Immortal Technique began working on The Middle Passage and The 3rd World, the two albums that would serve a follow up to Revolutionary Vol. 2 and complete the series. He was also featured on several movie soundtracks and video game soundtracks, all the while touring relentlessly and becoming heavily involved in visiting prisons to speak to youth and working with immigrant rights activists and raising tens of thousands of dollars for children’s hospitals overseas. He invested his money not in items that are usually associated with fame but rather in large pieces of farmland in Latin America. He created a writing grant program for high school students as well.

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