How does immortal technique know so much

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 , units of his three official releases. Biography Early life Coronel is African-Peruvian and was born in in a military hospital in Lima. His family emigrated in to Harlem to escape the ongoing internal conflict in Peru. 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. Obama painted him as a man who will say anything to get elected. That's what Romney is. Romney said he wasn't anti-abortion when he was governor of Massachusetts, then when he was running for the Republican party he is the most anti-abortion guy in the world.

He said he would start a war with Iran but when he realised the economic and political reality of starting another war and how much America is against it, he began mirroring Obama's policy. I think he would make it end up looking like [George W] Bush's third term as president. Obama is still a war president. I have a lot of problems in actively supporting someone like that. In your song Point of No Return you say the government is after you.

How much truth is in that? I've definitely had a lot of run-ins with the government. They have tried to do my father for taxes; they thought I was hiding money with him. I have had my passport confiscated and have been questioned by Homeland Security upon coming home — not from Afghanistan but anywhere in the world.

In some capacity yes, but the soul has to develop in some form. I like writing books, stories and essays — I may do that. I use to teach ancient history in prison for children.

I found a lot of gratification in that because I saw people's lives turn around. Your lyrics contain a lot of religious messages. What does religion mean to you and do you follow a faith? If I told people I was a Muslim, people wouldn't say: "Wow, that's wonderful you've found inner peace in your life by embracing Islam. Are you one of them fucking Wahabbi, Sunnite, Salafi psycho-niggas? Are you down with Hezbollah and them? I have always been hounded by people about it; people try and pry it out of me.

I believe in God and have a faith that's very personal to me. That faith is between me and God. We have polarised religion, rather than it being a personal reflection of your relationship with God and how you communicate with God. I'd rather be friends with a good atheist than a bad religious person.

Your religion is suppose to ennoble you, but if all it makes you do is become contemptuous of other people, or make you say other people are going to hell, your religion has failed you, or rather, you have failed your religion. What struggles do you face with being a "reality rap" artist and people trying to pinpoint any sort of hypocrisy in your life? I don't shy away from anything.

As human beings, we're all works in progress. If I can get some constructive criticism, you're helping me grow as a human being. Sometimes I realise I need to grow.

It happened with me trying to take the word bitch more out of my music. I'm not a "gay-rights champion", but if I'm going to talk about people being oppressed in my music, then aren't some people oppressed if they don't have the right to marry the person they want in a society that's supposed to be free?

They shouldn't be punished by a government because of the way they are born. I wouldn't call it conspiracy. I would suggest people research — for example when I said Bin Laden was part of the CIA and people said "that's not true".

When people say it's a conspiracy I welcome the criticism, because the music I make is backed by historical facts. I'm not afraid to be wrong or debate it. I won't allow people to marginalise my music. I would say I use it less frequently than I have before. I have made a conscious decision to replace it in the music I make. I understand a lot of people have used that word to express camaraderie.

In the States we remade the word to be something that reflected unity among ourselves. The bulk of the piece is a personal narrative about a childhood friend who was unjustly beaten by the boys in blue. When he opens a dialogue with fans, asking them to share their stories of overzealous policemen, hundreds of responses roll in. I do revolutionary work.

On a recent trip to his native Peru, Tech spent much of his time cultivating a farm he bought a few years back. On plus acres of land he grows beans, corn, papayas, and other produce with the help of his family and an agricultural engineer.

Aside from any financial gain, the purpose of the farm is to give the people more control of their own resources. In addition to the farm, Tech is proud to own his home in Harlem, a neighborhood he refuses to leave even amid ongoing gentrification.

Tech does much of his work from his home office.