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Originally Posted by trouserjazz
Politics aside he is a quality act certainly not the holy grail but good none the less,
The beats are excellent his flow is good and some of his put downs and metaphors are unreal. Id imagine he is an awsum battle mc.
You really should give him another listen.
As for his politics, he comes across as pretty intelligent to me, some of his arguments are simplistic but when he is fighting against the likes of Fox news and American conservative journalism in general its only natural for him to gravitate towards their level. Its not as if his target audience will be fulll of well educated men now is it.
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im pretty sure that people aren't complaining about the intelligence of his arguments, but rather the radical extremism such as:
"I was watching the Towers, and though I wasn't the closest
I saw them crumble to the Earth like they was full of explosives
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They dubbed a tape of Osama, and they said it was proof
"Jealous of our freedom," I can't believe you bought that excuse"
"Bush knocked down the towers"
"But when I'm gone they'll sing a song about Immortal Technique
Who beheaded the President, and the princes and sheiks"
but there are also lyrics in his songs that are powerful and clever:
"Put your hands in the air like you got the heat to your back
and shake your body like a baby born addicted to crack
And since life is a gamble like the crabstables at Vegas
I freestyle my destiny, it's not written in pages"
"But that will never be me, cuz I am leavin' the past
like an abused wife with the kids, leavin' your ass
Like a drug addict clean and sober, leavin' the stash
unbreakable Technique leavin' the plane crash
I'm out with the black box and I refuse to return"
"This is for the illest emcees that'll never be known
And this is for all the soliders that'll never come home
I wrote this for Momia, stuck in a beast
For people who, march in the streets, and struggle for peace"
but a God of hiphop, or a top 10 MC, he definitely is not