Immortal Technique

“Yeah you got your heart broke, life sucks doesn't it? but you shouldn't fuck up someone else's life because of it. someone did your mother like that, that's why you fatherless.”

“Most people are only players cause they got played, and have not let go of that shit since the seventh grade”

“Show me a pretty girl with the world stuck to her and i'll bet you there's a brother that's tired of fuckin' her. lots of nigga's girls is someone else's one-night stand”

“Cause jail culture didn't give you that fitted hat To memorize a ghostwritten shit verse and spit it back”

“And it’s amazing how they trained them, To be racist against themselves in the place they was raised in, You kept us caged in, Destroyed our culture and said that you civilized us, Raped our women and when we were born, you despised us, Gentrified us, agent provocateur divide us, And crucified every revolutionary messiah”

“And they might even have a black president but he’s useless, Cause he does not control the economy stupid”

“What Good is a good education with no direction like the right to vote with no one to vote for in an election”

“And that's not socialist mythology, This is urban warfare, to the streets of your psychology.”

“They call us terrorists after they ruined our countries.”

“This is the point from which I can never return, and if I back down now then forever I burn. This is the point from which I can never retreat cause if I turn back now there can never be peace. This is the point from which I will die or succeed, living the struggle, I know I'm alive when I bleed. From now on it can never be the same as before, cause the place that I'm from doesn't exist any more”

“Universal truth is not measured in mass appeal, this is the last time I kneel and pray to the sky, cause almost everything I was ever told was a lie”

“You better watch what the fuck flies outta your mouth / Or I'm a hijack a plane and fly it into your house.”

“And Dick Cheney, you fuckin leech, tell them your plans. About building your pipelines through Afghanistan. And how Israeli troops trained the Taliban in Pakistan.”

“When I was a child, the Devil himself bought me a mic. But I refused the offer, 'cuz God sent me to strike, with skills unused like fallopian tubes on a dyke.”

“And as a matter of fact Rumsfeld, Now that I think back, Without 9/11 you couldn't have a war in Iraq.”

“The devil crept into heaven, God overslept on the seventh, the new world order was born on September 11th.”

“I see the world for what it is, beyond the white and the black / The way the government downplays historical facts / 'Cuz the United States sponsored the rise of the Third Reich / Just like the CIA trained terrorists to the fight / Build bombs and sneak box cutters onto a flight”

“A bandana full of glittering generality, 'fighting for freedom' and 'fighting terror', but what's reality? Martial law is coming soon to the hood to kill you, while you hanging your flag out your project window.”

“We don't get weapons contracts, nigga / We don't get cheap labor for our company, nigga / We ARE cheap labour, nigga / Turn off the news and read, nigga / read...”

“How could this be, the land of the free, home of the brave.. indigenous holocaust and the home of the slaves. Corporate America dancing offbeat to the rhythm. You really think this country never sponsored terrorism? Human rights violations we continue the saga, El Salvador and the Contras in Nicaragua. And on top of that you still want to take me to prison, just cause I won't trade humanity for patriotism.”