Monday, August 10, 2009

"Recession Tour" & Other updates

I wrote a very long Journal entry on my travels to Latin America and the Reaction to the President’s healthcare plan but I feel like there is one or two parts left to finish so I will wait a few days. I have not been here to post things too often because I felt that as a Revolutionary there was more to do than just put my thoughts on-line and I would rather be out there in the world being a part of it. But informing you of it would help that cause whatever it is so I will try stay in the loop more, I just hate the idea of being considered one of those rappers who blogs more than they release music. To those of you who have devoted your time and energy to the causes I have fought for I am eternally grateful and indebted. I hope that we continue to work together as a unit, a rebel army that has a reach that can travel the planet in a heartbeat.

The 14th of August is coming up, and I look forward to seeing some of you at The Knitting Factory, if you haven’t gotten your tickets already, they’re going fast. This last benefit show will help to continue funding the orphanage Omeid and I created in Kabul. I dedicated a great deal of time out of my life to this and when I saw the kids so overjoyed and bewildered by the idea that someone cared enough to give them a chance to live and learn I felt humbled beyond belief, I felt stronger than ever. As if a bullet or a death threat didn’t matter. The support base of the Rebel Army has grown so much that together I feel we can meet any challenge. Some would call that confidence, some would call it insanity, but I call it finding inner peace, and I don’t give a fuck what other people think about it.

The era of being a Louis XVI musician is at it’s death knell, artists are failing left and right because they still have this idea that regular ordinary “non-celebrity” people exist to worship and serve them in some weird semi religious capacity. Who the fuck do you think you are and how long did you think that was gonna last you spoiled bitch. Have you cowards finally begun to understand that people are tired of that? I’m glad some of you rappers are Recession proof, but your fans aren’t asshole and that’s why they aren’t buying your records. Even the diehard underground fans feel the squeeze of salary slashing, job cutbacks, and the local economy in shambles. Cities in Michigan, Illinois, North Carolina, Kentucky, California, have literally seen their economic infrastructure decimated over the past year. I am not a leader in the Underground Hip Hop community by divine right, but rather because my word is unquestionable, my ideas work and I have the power in the street to make moves and command the respect of ideological opposites.

Being independent you can’t exist without earning a more up close and personal amount of support and criticism whether fair or completely unfounded. I love having my personal space and I have definitely checked people seriously for invading it. But besides the handful of incidents, most people just wish to share ideas and when I have the time I am more than willing to politick and as long as this person is respectful answer questions (not straw man arguments), and learn from people of all races, religions, economic situations and walks of life. I hope to run a forum in the upcoming months when http://www.ImmortalTechnique.com launches (finally) on lifting the Cuban Embargo, Socialized Medicine Vs. America’s Plan, Latin American Revolution: The Next Step, and Sikes/Piko:The Middle Eastern Blueprint.” I hope that you will all join me.

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People have also been asking me to do a few tour dates before I get back to work so since times are really hard for the supporters of my music so I have decided to announce a “Recession Tour” in September after I finish a couple of dates with Jedi Mind Tricks. The first two shows in Philly and Baltimore (18th/19th) were not by my design so the price is higher but everything else on the tour is about $12adv - $15 day of show. Discount deals will be available on Merch and all that…


The dates are posted on the front page of http://www.myspace.com/immortaltechnique

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Sunday- Sept.20th: Charlottesville, VA

Tuesday- Sept.22nd: Carrboro, NC

Wednesday- Sept.23rd: Asheville, NC

Thursday- Sept.24th: Lexington, KY

Saturday- Sept.26th: Chicago, IL

Sunday- Sept.27th: Bloomington, IN

Monday- Sept.28th: Ann Arbor, MI

Tuesday- Sept.29th: Cleveland, OH

Wednesday- Sept.30th: Pittsburgh, PA

Friday/Sat Oct. 2nd /3rd: New York City

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Following me on this trip are Poison Pen whose new album “The Money Shot” is in stores right now! J.Arch who is working on his next mixtape, and my old friend Diabolic, whose murderous debut CD “A Liar & A Thief” is being finished up right now. Please support these brothers when you see them. We are all taking a paycut and rockin’ shows for a fraction of what we would get in order to make people know that Hard Core Street Hop is alive and well. Commercial Rap is crumbling and the industry is falling apart but we are staying strong and thriving, because of the support base that wants to hear real music, real lyrics, and tough beats.

I believe that by the time I am out there the article I wrote for the Source will be in stores. You know I have always had a decent relationship with them, even when people were telling me they were a washed up dying entity I never chimed in for points. I think they still have potential for a comeback in the market. As an independent they gave me Unsigned Hype back in the day and even Hip Hop quotable off the strength of my lyrics and grind alone. But this article that is coming out was never proof read, which is what we agreed to, I don’t know what was left out or cut or recut to make it the product it is. So I might release the whole unedited version myself. Also the ½ I gave them has already been divided into 2 parts, which means this is going to be a 3 or 4 part series if they actually seek to continue it. Afghanistan isn’t an easy thing to sum up, it can’t be compressed into the time limit of your average juvenile drama soaked worldstar video. Also the photo credits that should have gone to C.Stuart (because I didn’t take pictures of myself) were absent and on top of it somehow someone over there wrote on the byline that I was born in Colombia instead of Peru. I’m not mad because I was told these things are being corrected. So I just came here to pass along the message they passed onto me. I’m not here to throw a tantrum because a mistake was a made I am still very grateful to The Source for providing a medium for the message, I just want to keep people who support the music and the movement informed about what’s happening.

My work on the documentary that has taken so many years to compile is almost done. I am home from Peru after looking over the lands that I invested in and I am proud of what I have accomplished. My family is proud of me too, they are happy to see me come home instead of just becoming an “Assimilated Latino” that forgets about his culture and place of origin. Once “Urban Warfare” is done with filming I can return to working on “The Middle Passage” and “Revolutionary Vol.3”. I have a bunch of songs done but more ideas come to me everyday. I’m going to go back to working on some more music and possibly will leak some in the next coming weeks if I can get it down when I return from LA. Big up my dude GK (http://www.prisonpenn.com), Rami my Lebanese brother who stays hitting me up with interesting articles, and all the people who keep up with the newsletters.


Much Respect,


Immortal
Technique

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Source: MySpace Blog - http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...=504746556

To read previous blog entries click HERE

http://www.myspace.com/immortaltechnique

(08-10-2009 11:15 AM)Lor3nzO Wrote:  I hope to run a forum in the upcoming months when http://www.ImmortalTechnique.com launches (finally) on lifting the Cuban Embargo, Socialized Medicine Vs. America’s Plan, Latin American Revolution: The Next Step, and Sikes/Piko:The Middle Eastern Blueprint.” I hope that you will all join me.

I guess that means bye bye to this place...

(08-10-2009 11:15 AM)Lor3nzO Wrote:  Also the photo credits that should have gone to C.Stuart (because I didn’t take pictures of myself) were absent and on top of it somehow someone over there wrote on the byline that I was born in Colombia instead of Peru. I’m not mad because I was told these things are being corrected.

Their gonna correct it in time? When i asked them they said it was too late. I hope it does get corrected.

(08-10-2009 11:15 AM)Lor3nzO Wrote:  I’m going to go back to working on some more music and possibly will leak some in the next coming weeks if I can get it down when I return from LA.

Emphasis on "possibly". Please do!!

Im speechless.

I hope he leaks something soon. Aghh im excited for Aug 14th. This friday baby! Its gonna be rockin in LA!

"Doctors destroy health, Lawyers destroy justice, Governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religion destroys spirituality" - M.E.

I whent to that (http://www.prisonpenn.com) website that is mentioned in the blog. If you search the site for 'immortal technique' it brings up this interesting article lol:

Real Nikkas Do Real Things



In 2003, while at an underground Hip Hop event in the lower east side of Manhattan, I met an official muhfukka.

I had just came home from doing a three year prison bid, and I was on a mission to get into the music industry as a Hip Hop Artist. Within the first week of my release, I had recorded and pressed up a mixtape, that I went around and gave out for free. I would go to whatever event, party or show that I knew about and give them out. One of my homies knew D.J Kuttin Kandi (who I had never heard about until that day) and brought me to a show that she was doing along with Jeru Da Damaja. I was new to the scene of scene and it showed because I wasn’t familiar with some of the artists.

Within 15-20 minutes, I ran out of CD’s. There were more in the car, so I headed outside to grab the rest of them. On my way to the exit, I was stopped by some Spanish cat in a army jacket that was standing against the wall with a few other cling-on trying to peddle me his CD. The dude didn’t look like my type of rapper, so I shot him down and kept it moving. After a few steps I heard him say something that made all the people around him start laughing. Now I had just came home from prison, so I thought that I was the toughest muhfukka in the world, and on top of that I had a gun on me. Nobody could clown me and get away with it, so I turned around and as threatening as I could I asked him what the fuck did you just say…My aggressiveness shocked him a bit causing him to back up a bit, and I took it for weakness, which boosted my gangstaness.

Realizing where this encounter was going, he told me that he was just trying to sell me a CD. I told him that I was selling my own music, this caused him to smile and I saw that he was sleeping on me. I had just spent the last 3 years in prison yards, cells, hallways, messhalls and wherever battling dudes that slept on me, and embarrassing most of them. This dude was no different to me and I was going to show him how sleeping on the wrong person meant death. Without any warning, I just started going at him.

I had no idea who this dude was; I didn’t know that he was a battle champ in the underground scene. But everyone else knew because within seconds most of the club surrounded us to watch the champ finish some unknown challenger off. To me he was nobody, and I treated him as such. I thought that everyone was around us to hear me, so I went at him with all of the anger and frustration that I could master and exploded on him. No one expected a baby faced Asian kid to go as hard as I did, and I could tell that my opponent was shocked, and the crowd went crazy after I went. The dude wasted no time in coming back with the same intensity. I realized that I had slept on him, because he was nice, real nice, and he was going off the top of his head. We traded three verses a piece, and it was close, so close that the crowd was amazed that I hung with him like that… But in my eyes, I felt and knew that he was better… But I really didn’t care who was better, all I wanted was my respect. Afterwards, we embraced each other and he told me his name was Immortal Technique, and we exchanged numbers. Later I found out that he had a pretty big name for himself in the underground circuit.

Since that day, Immortal Technique has become a brother to me. Through my whole ordeal he has stayed by a nikka side, never once treating me differently because of my circumstances. The nikka even came to my sentencing hearing with a suit and a bow tie to show support, and that’s more than I can say for people who I’ve shed blood for…Even with his busy schedule, (homie just sold more than 100,000 CDs independently, and tours around the world) he makes it his business to come check a nikka at least two times a year. He sends me money without me asking, he sends books and pictures of the places he toured…Shit that no one else does, he does…Dude is an official muhfukka, and I have nothing but respect and love for him. If you have never bought his CD, I expect you to buy it after reading this…On top of that, he’s nice…Real Nikkas Do Real Things!

http://www.prisonpenn.com/?p=791#more-791

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Whats that artists name? thats a pretty good story.


And , tech opening a new forum...Someone should tell him what we got here. All the lyrics, interviews, pictures, discousions, news.

Seriosly, someone needs to get on that.

DUDE i can tottaly go to the Charlottesville show!

fuckin word

Yeah, Someone should say about this site..Next time those guys who do Friday Night live talk to him, get them to drop it in, they love us out here.

I just read that online & want him to drop the unedited version on his myspace because I'd have to travel all the way to Central London to find the Source

(08-10-2009 11:15 AM)Lor3nzO Wrote:  I hope to run a forum in the upcoming months when http://www.ImmortalTechnique.com launches (finally) on lifting the Cuban Embargo, Socialized Medicine Vs. America’s Plan, Latin American Revolution: The Next Step, and Sikes/Piko:The Middle Eastern Blueprint.” I hope that you will all join me.

I found that its actually "Sykes/Picot". I know you copied and pasted.. but just correcting =)

(08-10-2009 02:19 PM)Boboulas Wrote:  And , tech opening a new forum...Someone should tell him what we got here. All the lyrics, interviews, pictures, discousions, news.

Seriosly, someone needs to get on that.

Thinking about it, he doesn't say anything about a "new" forum. He says he wants to run "a forum". That doesn't leave us totally out the picture. I would hate to see all this shit go unnoticed, like you say we have all the shit people need here, lyrics, interviews, pics etc and im sure they realize that too. Compared to the previous forums i would say this is the best in terms of resources, latest information and shit but we are lacking abit on the discussion side. For them to create a new forum now i think would just be a waste of their time. Imma try find out exactly what he means.

(08-10-2009 04:39 PM)noobd Wrote:  I found that its actually "Sykes/Picot". I know you copied and pasted.. but just correcting =)

What's it all about?
British-French secret agreement about trade?