The Message & The Money-Immortal Technique

[00:12.02]Before we go any further.. [00:13.83]I would like to send a message to all the underground mc's out there, working hard [00:18.95]The time has come to realize you networked in a marketand stop being a ******g commodity [00:24.81]And if you didn't understand what I've just said t [00:27.12]Then you already waiting to get ****** [00:29.37]For example; a lot of these promoters are doing showcasesthrowing events, and not even paying the workhorses [00:35.85]They trying get us to rock for the love of hiphop or rock for the exposure [00:41.46]Now look man, [00:42.34]I don't mind doing a guest spot for my peeps [00:44.84]Or, or, or doing a benefit show, but don't lie to me ************* [00:48.08]Coz I find out I'm paying your lightbill, [00:50.70]I'm ******g you up ************* [00:52.50]Besides, you ain't doing this for the love, [00:54.74]you ain't doing it for the exposureyou [00:56.81]charging up to 10$ at the door, [00:58.95]and you ain't tryin to give me *************t?? [01:01.20]So wait a minute... [01:02.50]you want me to go shopping, cook the food, and put it in front of youbut you won't let me sit down and eat with you? [01:09.03]The ************* is that? [01:11.15]*************z need to start playing their position, man. [01:13.46]Just coz you throw a partya hosting event or an open mic or a showcase, or a battlethat don't make you important at all [01:21.14]Without me and everybody like me out thereyou ain't nutting but a good idea, mother****** [01:26.13]So stay in your place [01:29.68]And to all these *************ass saronayas who are too lazy to come up with a way to sell records.. [01:35.23]That they keep recycling marketing schemes and imagery [01:39.35]C'mon..There is a market for everything man [01:42.22]There is a market for pet psychologists *************. [01:44.59]There is a market for twisted*************tfetish video's. [01:47.95]For nipplerings, for riverdancing, for chocolate cupboard roaches.. [01:52.26]But you can't find one for cultured hardcore reality and hiphop? [01:57.19]People like you: the house ************* executivesand them rich mother******s that own you; you the mother******g machine man! [02:03.92]You and all these *************z talking about the same *************twith the same flow over the same candy-ass beats [02:10.21]But I refuse the feed the machine [02:12.70]And Im not giving any magazine money [02:14.69]So maybe my album won't get 5 mics, or double-x-l's, or 5 discs [02:20.19]Whatever man, ************* it [02:22.62]But then again; you don't own me, and none of you *************z ever will [02:28.23]If I'm feeling what you fight for [02:30.10]I'm rolling with you to the end [02:31.97]But if not, then [02:32.93]************* YOU! [02:36.10]And the more that mc's, producers, dj'sand independent labels [02:41.46]start to grasp the conceptualityof what their contribution to the business of hiphop [02:46.94]israther then just the music - the more the industry will be forced to change [02:52.61]Oh, heh, and one last thing; [02:55.34]You don't have to agree with everything [02:58.59]I've saidBut don't ever be condescending to me [03:00.76]Picking up your wack ass friends that rhyme and being like' [03:04.32]Ow yeah, Immortal Technique - [03:06.06]he's aaiight' [03:07.17]No *************.. [03:08.05]Your mom is *************, that's aaiight, ok.. [03:10.86]Your peoples getting shot dead in the street, that's aaiight [03:14.28]I'm the mother******g Immortal Technique *************! [03:17.14]The message and the money! [03:18.64]And you ain't got either! [03:20.20]Remember that! [03:21.76]Punk ass mother******..