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Immortal Technique - Dance With The Devil
Info: Felipe Coronel Born February 19 1978 He is better known as Immortal Technique, is a hip hop MC and political activist. He is of Afro-Peruvian descent and was raised in Harlem, New York. Most of his lyrics focus on socio-political issues. The views expressed in his lyrics are largely a mixtur
e of commentary on issues such as poverty, religion, and racism. He also focuses on the harsh resulting realities of criminality in the housing projects of New York City's slums. Although he has been offered a deal with at least one major record label, he has never signed to any. Immortal Technique
has voiced a desire to keep control over his production, and has made statements in his music that he is very aware that it is record companies, not the artists themselves, who profit the most from mass production and marketing of music and has said: ''He would rather make a lot of a little, than a
little of a lot.'' He releases his music through, and is also the president of, Viper Records. In 2001, Immortal Technique released his first album CD, Revolutionary Vol. 1, without the help of a record label or distribution. He self-financed, manufactured, and sold copies of the record on the stree
ts. In November 2002, he was listed by The Source as the month's featured "Unsigned Hype", which highlights artists that are not signed to a record label. The following year, in September 2003, he received the coveted "Hip Hop Quotable" in The Source for a song entitled "Industrial Revolution" from
his second album. Consequently, since he did not have a record deal or distribution at the time, Immortal Technique is the only rapper in history to have a "Hip Hop Quotable" while being unsigned. He finally released his second album Revolutionary Vol. 2 in 2003 under Viper Records/Nature Sounds dis
tribution on CD and double LP. The album sold around 65,000 units according to SoundScan figures, but estimates reach as far as 80,000 considering his large underground street distribution wing that made him famous in the NYC area. In 2004, Viper Records and, in 2005, Babygrande Records have re-rele
ased Immortal Technique's debut, Revolutionary Vol. 1, to make it available to a wider audience. Before the presidential race in November 2004, the Immortal Technique song "Bin Laden", featuring Mos Def, Eminem and produced by DJ Green Lantern, emerged on Shade 45: Sirius Bizness. However, it took a
lmost half a year until it was officially released on a 12" vinyl single in the summer of 2005. The single also contained a remix of the song featuring hip-hop legends Chuck D of Public Enemy and KRS-One. The song accuses the Bush administration of destroying the world trade buildings on 911, not Os
ama Bin Laden. Indeed, in a recent interview, Mos Def revealed that he believed the twin towers had been brought down via controlled demolition. Earlier the same year, Immortal Technique appeared (as himself) in the independent movie This Revolution, which is set during the 2004 Republican National
Convention in New York City, and chronicles the protests surrounding the convention in a pseudo-documentary style. The movie also featured Viper Records affiliates Akir and producer/engineer Toure "Southpaw" Harris in smaller speaking roles. Since then Immortal Technique has been promoted to presi
dent and A &R of Viper Records and has signed a distribution deal with Babygrande Records for his next album. He has also made Southpaw the head A&R of Viper Records and executive produced Akir's Legacy album.
In 2006, the song "Impeach the President", featuring dead prez, Saigon, and Immortal Technique, emerged on the DJ Green Lantern mixtape Alive on Arrival. The song is a cover version of the 1973 single by The Honeydrippers, using the original chorus, but it has new verses in which the rappers express their wish that president George W. Bush be impeached.
Immortal Technique is currently working on several new projects; a mix tape with DJ Green Lantern entitled The Third World that will be the final volume in the "Revolutionary" series, the long delayed (since 2005) third album The Middle Passage, and a documentary DVD entitled Urban Warfare.
He is a co-founder of the Grassroots Artists MovEment (G.A.ME), which provides healthcare for the underground artists that it works with.
He has participated along with SJP in the fundraising that brought tens of thousands of dollars to children's hospitals in Palestine.
Discography: 2001: Revolutionary Vol. 1 2003: Revolutionary Vol. 2 2008: The 3rd World 2008: The Middle Passage

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