Harlem Renaissance-Immortal Technique

[00:00.52] [00:01.02] [00:01.52]Maximal R&B - The Freshest & Hottest R&B/ Hip-Hop Music [00:02.39] [00:02.87]"Let me welcome both of you [00:03.47]uh, to the show this morning to talk about what I consider [00:05.63]to be a very very important topic, uh, the Harlem Renaissance [00:08.71]But before we get into that..." [00:10.21] [00:10.62]Immortal Technique: [00:11.07]Yeah, Harlem once was red line district rated (uhh) [00:13.25]Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David [00:15.73]And you wonder why, people don't own they homes (why?) [00:18.53]Cause the racist bank wouldn't ****in mortgage a loan [00:20.90]Harlem once was red line district rated (uhh) [00:23.91]Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David [00:26.32]And you wonder why, people don't own they homes (why?) [00:28.91]Cause the racist bank wouldn't ****in mortgage a loan {WAKE UP!} [00:31.51] [00:31.99]Harlem once was red line district rated (uhh) [00:34.43]Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David [00:36.92]And you wonder why, people don't own they homes (why?) [00:39.70]Cause the racist bank wouldn't ****in mortgage a loan [00:42.09]Until after the invasion of, gentrification [00:44.91]Eminent domain intimidation, that's not negotiation [00:47.71]And it's frustratin to look at, every day [00:50.52]Like watchin a porno, on 56-K [00:53.25]Biohazard labs instead of store rooms [00:55.75]What's next ************, projects as dorm rooms? [00:58.39]You ain't fool nobody in this community duke [01:01.17]With your little fake Manhattanville community group [01:03.91]Ivy league, real estate firms are corrupt [01:06.59]I lay siege to your castle like the Moors in Europe [01:09.13]They treat street vendors like criminal riff-raff [01:11.52]While politicians get the corporate kickbacks (snakes) [01:14.14] [01:14.64]Chorus: Immortal Technique [01:15.16]Harlem Renaissance, a revolution betrayed [01:17.03]Modern day slaves thinkin that the ghetto is saved [01:19.57]'Til they start deportin people off the property [01:22.07]Ethnically cleansin the hood, economically [01:24.65]They wanna kill the real Harlem Renaissance [01:27.31]Tryin to put the Virgin Mary through a early menopause [01:29.71]The savior is a metaphor for how we set it off [01:32.56]Guerrilla war against the re-zoning predators [01:35.15] [01:35.60]Immortal Technique: [01:36.15]When I speak about Harlem, I speak to the world [01:38.06]The little Afghan boy, and the Bosnian girl [01:40.70]The African in Sudan, the people of Kurdistan [01:43.27]The third world American, indigenous man [01:46.07]Palestinians, Washington Heights, Dominicans [01:49.17]Displaced New Orleans citizens [01:50.80]Beachfront Brazilian favelas that you livin in [01:53.51]The hood is prime real estate, they want back in again (**** outta here) [01:56.99]I didn't write this to talk ****, I say it because [01:59.23]some of y'all forgot what the Harlem Renaissance was [02:01.95]We had revolution, music and artisans [02:04.33]But the movement was still ****ed up like Parkinson's [02:06.89]Cause while we were givin birth to the culture we love [02:09.65]Prejudice, kept our own people out of the club [02:12.31]Only colored celebrities in the party (fake *****!) [02:15.28]And left us a legacy of false superiority [02:17.36]W.E.B. Du Bois versus Marcus Garvey [02:20.23]And we ended up, sellin out to everybody [02:22.51]The Dutch {?} and the John Gotti's [02:25.27]Banksters, modern day gangsters, immobile army [02:28.13]They wanna move us all out the N.Y.C. [02:30.23]Like they did to the Jews with the Alhambra decree [02:33.10]So support your own businesses and do the knowledge [02:35.80]Cause the real Harlem Renaissance is economic (yeah) [02:38.58] [02:39.08]Chorus: Immortal Technique [02:39.61]Harlem Renaissance, a revolution betrayed [02:41.48]Modern day slaves thinkin that the ghetto is saved [02:44.05]'Til they start deportin people off the property [02:46.58]Ethnically cleansin the hood, economically [02:49.14]They wanna kill the real Harlem Renaissance [02:52.08]Tryin to put the Virgin Mary through a early menopause [02:54.64]The savior is a metaphor for how we set it off [02:57.12]Guerrilla war against the re-zoning predators [02:59.82] [03:00.51]{"Green Lantern... The Evil Genius!"} [03:01.40] [03:02.12]"When they were saying it is the renaissance, of Harlem [03:05.11]they didn't mean, that we had stake in that [03:09.22]They meant to say that they could make money out of us" [03:13.56] [03:15.00]"They are coming in with all kind of prejudices [03:17.74]In Brooklyn they're doing the same thing [03:20.28]In, um, Queens they're doing the same thing; the Bronx [03:24.79]There's hardly any place which is affordable [03:28.28]I mean these people are putting up condominiums [03:30.72]which start from a million dollars [03:32.43]How many people in this community make that kind of money? [03:36.71]How many people have that kind of money?" [03:39.49] [03:40.37]"People of Harlem, they are the natural allies of the oppressed people [03:46.06]of the world, whether the struggle is in Panama, in Africa, Cuba" [03:52.63] [03:53.59]"We spend money with the wrong people [03:55.91]We are looking for love, with people who don't love us [03:58.99]What's wrong with us loving each other [04:01.28]and making sure that we are protected?" [04:02.97] [04:03.55]End [04:04.01] [04:04.52] [04:05.02] [04:05.52]Maximal R&B - The Freshest & Hottest R&B/ Hip-Hop Music