[ti:]
[ar:]
[al:]
[00:01.79]Intro: Immortal Technique
[00:09.77]New to the world
[00:11.55]Fresh out the barrio
[00:13.21]I was an outlaw rebel
[00:15.17]Out of my mind, young and wild
[00:17.26]My existence defined in one word: Survive
[00:21.69]Verse 1: Joell Ortiz
[00:21.94]If it could be sold, I can sell it; if it can’t, that’s cool
[00:25.63]I’ll fix it up make it look good enough to catch some fools
[00:28.46]It started when I was young with my Genesis games
[00:31.41]He traded me John Madden for--I don’t remember the name
[00:34.25]But it was weak though
[00:35.45]The streets though, they play with perico
[00:37.34]So Tito became my hijo, he had cheap blow
[00:40.34]And each O like three, four times, I flipped ones
[00:43.17]But it’s evil, the people I deal with'll stick nuns
[00:46.02]With big guns, the diesel, that diesel never change
[00:48.72]The custies still nod like they agree with everything
[00:51.70]The weed ain’t the same, all the colors is new
[00:54.31]It ain’t just green, the haze is purple, and them berries is blue
[00:57.30]I don’t care if it was pink, as long as they still smokin'
[01:00.39]I'll have them bags packed until they damn near open
[01:03.38]The hustle’s in my veins, I could bleed in a pot
[01:06.07]And make a soup that’d go for 10 dollars a pot
[01:08.90]Immortal Technique
[01:09.25]En la calle
[01:10.75]On a collision course with incarceration
[01:13.44]Consumed by the lies of the streets
[01:16.23]They were an illusion
[01:17.78]But I awoke, caged like an animal
[01:20.41]Verse 2: Pumpkinhead
[01:20.67]They got me locked in a cell
[01:22.22]Where I’m feelin' like an experiment
[01:23.86]My spirit sharper than lasers they used to build pyramids
[01:26.56]Writin' on the walls keep me sane
[01:28.64]Knuckle push-ups on the concrete 'til I bleed out the pain
[01:32.28]Thoughts of my freedom lingerin' in my brain
[01:35.08]I’m stronger and much quicker, I appreciate the gain
[01:37.96]Buildin' with my a-alike, brown power reunite
[01:41.15]Tattoos of my flag, PR pride, Jesus Christ
[01:44.33]But I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy
[01:46.88]So when I’m free I’ll teach and spread the speech
[01:49.00]Of how they try to divide us (to make us weak)
[01:51.08]Find us (and break a piece)
[01:52.37]So I got it (to make a peace), honest (I play for keeps)
[01:55.31]This is the life of your forefathers that fought hard
[01:57.81]Four corners of backyards, power in numbers
[02:00.59]So they subtract us and add bars
[02:02.24]If they want it, we gonna take ‘em to war
[02:04.44]We not a gang or a clique, we Young Lords
[02:07.02]Immortal Technique
[02:07.22]I came to my senses, un esclavo no soy
[02:11.36]That is now my past
[02:12.86]I came to know me and my people
[02:14.95]Red, brown and black helped me paint the future
[02:18.00]Verse 3: CF
[02:18.04]The world got a template, to turn us into inmates
[02:20.93]Caged in a state pen, man, fuck goin' to Penn State!
[02:24.57]Bonded to slave ships to punch in your timecard
[02:27.36]Walk my oasis spacin' jungle behind bars
[02:30.20]Got my epiphany like Malcolm X
[02:32.80]Prison to the bricks, but I’m stuck in this global house arrest
[02:35.64]I’m a free man, so I changed my mannerisms
[02:38.63]This Greenspan system wanna dent my activism
[02:41.52]Estilo machetero get my people out the ghetto
[02:44.26]21st century Grito De Lares estate quieto (stay calm)
[02:47.69]We vocal minorities, no pookie man trail
[02:50.84]Guess the local authorities to be the Ho Chi Minh trail
[02:53.27]From robbin' bodegas and boastin' like low-lives
[02:56.32]The medium figures totin' the 4-5
[02:59.21]Revolutionary gangsters in your presence
[03:01.84]Tryin' to dead us with cancer through chemical testin'
[03:04.68]Immortal Technique
[03:04.88]?Unidos por fin!
[03:06.48]We seize the time, free at last
[03:09.17]Learn to love, live to fight
[03:11.31]Not just for me, but for others
[03:13.51]Teach the new blood
[03:14.80]And live for freedom!
[03:16.00]Verse 4: Immortal Technique
[03:16.24]I survived the COINTELPRO assassinations
[03:18.73]AIDS-epidemic crack era fractured the nation
[03:21.63]The interpretation of American democracy
[03:24.37]Is best exemplified in its foreign policy dichotomy
[03:27.71]I live a double-life of political philosophy
[03:30.59]But revolution follows me, the struggle for equality
[03:33.38]Against the morally bankrupt, claimin' to be born again
[03:36.37]It's a civil war again, like MS-13's origin
[03:39.16]Banned ethnic studies claimin' our culture will swallow them
[03:42.15]But you can’t conquer people
[03:43.25]And build a country on top of them
[03:44.99]And then feel offended that they breathe the same oxygen
[03:47.79]Your family values lack the wisdom of Solomon
[03:50.67]But Operation Condor and Operation Bootstrap
[03:53.56]Are Poli Sci 101, research for the New Jack
[03:56.35]It’s hard to reach Communist Utopia tomorrow
[03:59.04]When your hands are in a fuckin' glass jar, like Che Guevara
[04:02.13]Forget the distorted historical facts you were given
[04:04.92]Slave trade was the capital for capitalism
[04:07.61]Trapped in a prison mentally, dyin' existentially
[04:10.75]Separated from people you can’t see yourself to be
[04:13.79]Then racially integrated into a burnin' house
[04:16.59]Colony of an empire economically burnin' out
[04:19.53]Can’t win a debate, so they sponsor every threat to me
[04:22.31]I wonder if Agent 800 is standin' next to me
[04:25.12]Outro: Panama Alba
[04:25.31]In Puerto Rico, the main problem
[04:29.95]we have es que somos colonia.
[04:31.89]We are a colony, we are fighting for freedom
[04:34.94]Because we will not be a slave nation por favor
[04:39.13]The struggle here is to make universities
[04:41.96]The struggle here is in the community
[04:44.75]It's against the police and violence
[04:46.99]It's against discrimination
[04:49.29]It's against the crime against humanity
[04:52.42]on this beautiful Caribbean Island. This is Panama
[04:59.00]Young lords, revolutionary always, from San Juan, Puerto Rico
[05:04.04]Que viva Puerto Rico libre!