Would this "pathetic victim of limited comprehension", he muses, drawing an odious comparison, "let me fuck his wife?" At which point, a lone dissenting voice in the crowd makes an analogy of his own, comparing Coronel to Ricky Gervais's character, David Brent, from The Office. His tone is hectoring and unpleasant: he tells an anecdote designed to highlight his artistic integrity, about the time he refused to compromise on a track that a "poor corporate slave" at his distribution company had asked him to remove from his album. There is nothing revolutionary about his polemic, nor the sonics (his DJ, Static, is no Terminator X). His lyrics are largely commentary on issues such as class struggle. Most of his lyrics focus on controversial issues in global politics. Felipe Andres Coronel (born February 19, 1978), better known by the stage name Immortal Technique, is an American rapper and urban activist. When Coronel demands the audience raise their hands and chant "Revolution!", instead of cringing, everyone complies. Immortal Technique performing in March 2010.
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There is consensus among the crowd regarding his lyrics – a series of conspiracy theories (his debut album was, appropriately, released three days after 9/11), rote critiques of the wealthy and banal defences of the disenfranchised – and they cheer his every between-song attack on governments and corporations. He is not as subversive as he thinks, preaching as he is to the converted. The 3rd World is the third studio album by rapper Immortal Technique, following a five-year absence since Revolutionary Vol.
If anything, with his backwards baseball cap and goatee, the 35-year-old comes across like a parody of a terminally angry hip-hop teenager, railing against complacency and injustice from the second he arrives on stage.
All rapid-fire invective, Coronel considers himself a public enemy, a "threat to the status quo of hip-hop", as he declared in the Guardian. Immortal Technique, the most radical revolutionary rap lyricist to hit wax, combines with Green Lantern and a gang of like-minded MCs to produce THE 3RD WORLD, a furious mixtape which is perhaps Immortal Technique s best work to date. That work – three albums since 2001, the last of which, 2008's The 3rd World, "peaked" in the US chart at No 99 – is old-school politicised hip-hop, whose most obvious model is Public Enemy. And although the Afro-Peruvian from Harlem is largely an underground figure, he is greeted with an ovation by tonight's crowd, many of whom are familiar with his work. F elipe Andres Coronel – AKA Immortal Technique – is the sole rap addition to Yoko Ono's Meltdown lineup.
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