![]() ![]() “My revolution is born out of love for my people, not hatred for others. 1 (2001) heralded his agenda in the ‘Poverty of Philosophy’: From the get-go favouring precarious autonomy over commercial straitjackets – McJobs paying for studio time, handling distribution personally – Revolutionary, Vol. So far, so classic ‘boy from the ’hood done good’ – except for the parallel awakening of revolutionary class-consciousness translated into the most explicitly political rap recordings yet. Harlem-raised after his family fled Peruvian civil war, Immortal Technique’s misspent youth included incarceration for violent offences, wherein he honed his hip-hop flow before redirecting rage onto rivals, winning open-mic contests across New York and further afield. Tom Jennings nods his head enthusiastically The new release from Immortal Technique, hip-hop’s most implacable class warrior, thoroughly links local and global struggles. ![]()
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