Artist: Immortal Technique
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Rock
Discography:
The 2nd Passage
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
The 1St Passage
Year: 2006
Tracks: 14
The 13 Amendments
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Revolutionary, Vol. 2
Year: 2005
Tracks: 18
BlackCargo
Year: 2005
Tracks: 23
The Silenced Revolution
Year: 2004
Tracks: 20
Portable Immortal
Year: 2004
Tracks: 18
Revolutionary Vol.1
Year: 2002
Tracks: 16
Born Felipe Coronel in a military hospital in Lima, Peru, in 1978, Immortal Technique affected to Harlem with his parents when he was 2 years old. At age nine he started rapping, though he didn't set forth to take it more seriously until he was in high school. Despite the fact he was in and out of trouble throughout his teenage years, Tech was recognised at Penn State University, just in front he could experience through much of college, he was arrested and eventually complete up outgo a year in prison. It was thither that he began to bailiwick the lives and teachings of black and Latino revolutionaries like Che Guevara and Malcolm X, as good as to devote himself to writing songs. Out in 1999, on parole, he touched plunk for to New York, where he spent his years working assorted jobs and his nights battling other rappers, a meeting place that allowed him the chance to show off his aggressive, scathing style.
Implicated that he was organism pigeonholed as a one-trick pony, Tech specify about authorship complete tracks, determination beats to play along them, and finally releasing his debut, Revolutionary, Vol. 1, in 2001 (an album that was afterwards re-released by his possess company, Viper Records, in 2004 and Babygrande in 2005). The criminal record, plus his tireless work ethic, earned him local recognition and a spot as The Source's "unsigned hype" in November 2002, and the following year he issued his s record album, Revolutionary, Vol. 2. Although he promised his third release would see the light-colored of day in 2005, it wasn't until the summer of 2007 that -- in any case a few singles and mixtapes -- fans got whatever novel material from Immortal Technique, sexual climax in the form of the full-length The Middle Passage.
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