Revolutionary wisdom from Immortal Techniques...
I heard this song a few months and it's stuck with me since. Some part of me feels that it's a little extreme but so much of what he says rings true.
And as someone says in the comments, it gives me goosebumps.
I don't believe that revolution is the way forward, but then I'm a privileged first-world middle-class white male.
But I do believe that we need voices like this. And if anybody can vouch for authenticity then it's Immortal Technique - who self-released his own albums and used the profits from his latest to travel to Afghanistan and set up an orphanage!
But the irony is, that if a mainstream label had the chance then they would snap him up in an instant, just like the song says.
They would be happy to eat up his revolutionary talk. And in that one transaction, his authenticity would be gone.
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