Homeland & Hip Hop-Immortal Technique

[00:00.000] 作词 : Mumia Abu Jamal/Felipe Coronel [00:01.000] 作曲 : Mumia Abu Jamal/Felipe Coronel [00:12.68]To think about the origins of Hip-Hop [00:15.08]in this culture and also about Homeland Security is to see that there are, [00:19.41]at the very least, two worlds in America: [00:22.66]one of the well-to-do and another of the struggling. [00:26.00]For if ever there was the absence of Homeland Security, [00:29.03]it is one seen in the gritty roots of Hip-Hop. [00:31.35]For the music arises from a generation that feels, with some justice, [00:36.18]that they have been betrayed by those who came before them, [00:39.48]that they are at best tolerated in schools, feared on the streets, [00:43.97]and almost inevitably destined for the hell holes of prison. [00:47.31]They grew up hungry, hated, and unloved, [00:50.37]and this is the psychic fuel that generates the anger [00:53.80]that seems endemic in much of the music and poetry. [00:57.07]One senses very little hope above the personal goals of wealth [01:01.31]to climb above the pit of poverty. [01:03.90]In the broader society, the opposite is true, [01:06.74]for here, more than any other place on earth, [01:09.99]wealth is so wide spread and so bountiful [01:12.92]that what passes for the middle class in America [01:15.97]could pass for the upper class in most of the rest of the world. [01:19.82]They're very opulence and relative wealth makes them insecure and homeland security [01:25.26]is a governmental phrase that is as oxymoronic as crazy as saying military intelligence, [01:31.89]or the U.S Department of Justice. They're just words, [01:35.24]they have very little relationship to reality. [01:38.83]Now do you feel safer now? Do you think you will anytime soon? [01:43.41]Do you think duct tape and Kleenex and color codes [01:47.77]will make you safer? From Death Row this is Mumia Abu-Jamal