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Felipe Andres Coronel (born February 19, 1978), better known by the stage name Immortal Technique, is a Peruvian rapper, and an urban activist. He was born in Lima, Peru and raised in Harlem, New York. Most of his lyrics focus on controversial issues in global politics. 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 200,000 units of his three official releases.


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Coronel is African-Peruvian and was born in 1978 in a military hospital in Lima. His family emigrated in 1980 to Harlem to escape the ongoing internal conflict in Peru. During his teenage years he was arrested multiple times due in part to what he has said was “selfish and childish” behavior. He attended Hunter College High School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. 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.
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  • yazzamatazz

    LOL never mind, vomit erection is your #1 artist, my apologies. Keep doing whatever it is you do.

    yesterday afternoon

  • yazzamatazz

    @ PaulSPayan2...illmatic is a classic album and definitely not the most overrated album in history. It probably influenced a lot of the artists whom you claim would not listen to it if it were released today. Don't hate the player, hate the game. You got it twisted, f'real.

    yesterday afternoon

  • Brray

    Immortal Pasha Technique

    yesterday morning

  • PaulSPayan2

    "Illmatic is a classic." lol. You're one of those people. Illmatic is the most overrated fucking album in history. If some no name released that shit today, nobody would think anything of it.

    Saturday morning

  • legend41212

    What he and other rappers of his words try to say is that it does not matter what the colour of your skin is. You don't choose it by birth do you? So if I was you I'd take that irrelevant racism back.

    Thursday afternoon

  • dgk3188

    @aesthethica because IT is a "rebel" and white people love that shit.

    Monday evening

  • SupahDonkeh

    His lyrics are brutal as they come

    9 days ago

  • HighAndDriving2

    for anyone that is new to IT and coming here to see what song to listen to first, here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pqiqrnZE44

    9 days ago
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Egypt in Turmoil...

28 Jan 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/immortaltechnique

The people of Egypt have been crying out for their freedom for years.  In response the tyrannical regime of Mubarak has disappeared, tortured and murdered any opposition to it's rule. He did …

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