Young Lords-Immortal Technique

[00:01.79]Intro: Immortal Technique [00:09.77]New to the world [00:11.55]Fresh out the barrio [00:13.21]I was an outlaw rebel [00:15.17]Out of my mind, young and wild [00:17.26]My existence defined in one word: Survive [00:21.69]Verse 1: Joell Ortiz [00:21.94]If it could be sold, I can sell it; if it can’t, that’s cool [00:25.63]I’ll fix it up make it look good enough to catch some fools [00:28.46]It started when I was young with my Genesis games [00:31.41]He traded me John Madden for--I don’t remember the name [00:34.25]But it was weak though [00:35.45]The streets though, they play with perico [00:37.34]So Tito became my hijo, he had cheap blow [00:40.34]And each O like three, four times, I flipped ones [00:43.17]But it’s evil, the people I deal with'll stick nuns [00:46.02]With big guns, the diesel, that diesel never change [00:48.72]The custies still nod like they agree with everything [00:51.70]The **** ain’t the same, all the colors is new [00:54.31]It ain’t just green, the haze is purple, and them berries is blue [00:57.30]I don’t care if it was pink, as long as they still smokin' [01:00.39]I'll have them bags packed until they damn near open [01:03.38]The hustle’s in my veins, I could bleed in a pot [01:06.07]And make a soup that’d go for 10 dollars a pot [01:08.90]Immortal Technique [01:09.25]En la calle [01:10.75]On a collision course with incarceration [01:13.44]Consumed by the lies of the streets [01:16.23]They were an illusion [01:17.78]But I awoke, caged like an animal [01:20.41]Verse 2: Pumpkinhead [01:20.67]They got me locked in a cell [01:22.22]Where I’m feelin' like an experiment [01:23.86]My spirit sharper than lasers they used to build pyramids [01:26.56]Writin' on the walls keep me sane [01:28.64]Knuckle push-ups on the concrete 'til I bleed out the pain [01:32.28]Thoughts of my freedom lingerin' in my brain [01:35.08]I’m stronger and much quicker, I appreciate the gain [01:37.96]Buildin' with my a-alike, brown power reunite [01:41.15]Tattoos of my flag, PR pride, Jesus Christ [01:44.33]But I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy [01:46.88]So when I’m free I’ll teach and spread the speech [01:49.00]Of how they try to divide us (to make us weak) [01:51.08]Find us (and break a piece) [01:52.37]So I got it (to make a peace), honest (I play for keeps) [01:55.31]This is the life of your forefathers that fought hard [01:57.81]Four corners of backyards, power in numbers [02:00.59]So they subtract us and add bars [02:02.24]If they want it, we gonna take ‘em to war [02:04.44]We not a gang or a clique, we Young Lords [02:07.02]Immortal Technique [02:07.22]I came to my senses, un esclavo no soy [02:11.36]That is now my past [02:12.86]I came to know me and my people [02:14.95]Red, brown and black helped me paint the future [02:18.00]Verse 3: CF [02:18.04]The world got a template, to turn us into inmates [02:20.93]Caged in a state pen, man, **** goin' to Penn State! [02:24.57]Bonded to slave ships to punch in your timecard [02:27.36]Walk my oasis spacin' jungle behind bars [02:30.20]Got my epiphany like Malcolm X [02:32.80]Prison to the bricks, but I’m stuck in this global house arrest [02:35.64]I’m a free man, so I changed my mannerisms [02:38.63]This Greenspan system wanna dent my activism [02:41.52]Estilo machetero get my people out the ghetto [02:44.26]21st century Grito De Lares estate quieto (stay calm) [02:47.69]We vocal minorities, no pookie man trail [02:50.84]Guess the local authorities to be the Ho Chi Minh trail [02:53.27]From robbin' bodegas and boastin' like low-lives [02:56.32]The medium figures totin' the 4-5 [02:59.21]Revolutionary gangsters in your presence [03:01.84]Tryin' to dead us with cancer through chemical testin' [03:04.68]Immortal Technique [03:04.88]?Unidos por fin! [03:06.48]We seize the time, free at last [03:09.17]Learn to love, live to fight [03:11.31]Not just for me, but for others [03:13.51]Teach the new blood [03:14.80]And live for freedom! [03:16.00]Verse 4: Immortal Technique [03:16.24]I survived the COINTELPRO assassinations [03:18.73]AIDS-epidemic crack era fractured the nation [03:21.63]The interpretation of American democracy [03:24.37]Is best exemplified in its foreign policy dichotomy [03:27.71]I live a double-life of political philosophy [03:30.59]But revolution follows me, the struggle for equality [03:33.38]Against the morally bankrupt, claimin' to be born again [03:36.37]It's a civil war again, like MS-13's origin [03:39.16]Banned ethnic studies claimin' our culture will swallow them [03:42.15]But you can’t conquer people [03:43.25]And build a country on top of them [03:44.99]And then feel offended that they breathe the same oxygen [03:47.79]Your family values lack the wisdom of Solomon [03:50.67]But Operation Condor and Operation Bootstrap [03:53.56]Are Poli Sci 101, research for the New Jack [03:56.35]It’s hard to reach Communist Utopia tomorrow [03:59.04]When your hands are in a ****in' glass jar, like Che Guevara [04:02.13]Forget the distorted historical facts you were given [04:04.92]Slave trade was the capital for capitalism [04:07.61]Trapped in a prison mentally, dyin' existentially [04:10.75]Separated from people you can’t see yourself to be [04:13.79]Then racially integrated into a burnin' house [04:16.59]Colony of an empire economically burnin' out [04:19.53]Can’t win a debate, so they sponsor every threat to me [04:22.31]I wonder if Agent 800 is standin' next to me [04:25.12]Outro: Panama Alba [04:25.31]In Puerto Rico, the main problem [04:29.95]we have es que somos colonia. [04:31.89]We are a colony, we are fighting for freedom [04:34.94]Because we will not be a slave nation por favor [04:39.13]The struggle here is to make universities [04:41.96]The struggle here is in the community [04:44.75]It's against the police and violence [04:46.99]It's against discrimination [04:49.29]It's against the crime against humanity [04:52.42]on this beautiful Caribbean Island. This is Panama [04:59.00]Young lords, revolutionary always, from San Juan, Puerto Rico [05:04.04]Que viva Puerto Rico libre!