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Immortal Technique ™/ Text + Photography / Warsan Nur 13th August 2008 ‘Technique will force you into strategical retreat Because I dominate guerrilla warfare in the streets There ain’t no way to picture me without a victory speech.’ Unashamedly political MC Immortal Technique puts pay to myths about apathetical youth with his poetic and bile filled lyrics which talk freedom of speech, racial politics, and government corruption. Not your average rap repertoire these days. With his latest Album ‘The Third World’ Technique shows he’s not one to mellow with age. Originally from Peru but raised in the streets of Harlem New York, Technique is coming up as the East Coast’s finest voice of suppressed peoples across the world. ‘If you talk about the hood, and rep for the hood, and really talk about the issue that we face in the ghetto people relate to that.’ Whether it’s a ghetto here in America or in London, or Paris, or Nigeria, Jamaica, Colombia the colonization is the same basic set up.’ When Technique hit London The Cut saw this in our own at eyes at his amazing live shows. But what is most notable about Techniques is his refusal to sign to a major label, and his adamant desire to keep production and control of his music in his own hands. Despite having sold hundreds of thousands of albums he continues to work through his company Viper Records. This comes from Techniques pro active belief that being political is not just about talking it, but walking it too, which in the eyes of us at The Cut the ultimate form of creativity expression, ‘Im fed up of niggaz talk about streets but talk around the streets and not in the streets anymore. I believe you gotta reinvest. I own land I support the people and I make moves wherever I am.’ Viper Records also runs workshops in Prisons with Young Offenders. How many other musical artists could say they do this? Like so many he is tired of Hip Hop tendencies towards materialism and , as he expresses in aptly titled Revolutionary ‘Yo what the f*** happen to reality spitting rhyme slayers. These days everybody trying to be a thug or a player’ Thankfully when Technique was a kid he did not grow up wanting to be a thug or a player, and the musical landscape is a lot better for it. The Third World is our now on Viper Records. http://www.viperrecords.com/		Issue Two Aug 2008 Reggie Yates Interview Road To 2012 : Olympics Special Road To Carnival Fashion Freedom At A Price Red Hot Interview Nash Money Sneakers Micachu Interview Natty Interview Life In The Marine Corps Parents Meet The Teenagers Young Londoners Meet The Cast Of Adulthood Cyko Logic Interview Fred Butler : Prop Stylist Interview Immortal Technique Review Made In Queens Victor Timofeev : Artist Interview Ricky Powell Interview Twizzle Interview Flywear Feature Top Girl Film Feature Queen Of Nations Not Without My Sister Sky's The Limit Career's Advice Issue One March 2008 Bashy Interview The Cool Kids Lady Lykes Grimes New School Rowdy Superstar Interview The Sound Of Reason Slash Interview Hoxton Vs Hampstead Fashion Young Designers Lucinda Chua Interview Will Kay Interview The Brothers Size Chris Lambert Duane Henry Drug Trafficking Feature Does My Bum Look Big in This Life After Prison Whats Upsetting Our Children MP Julia Goldsworthy Autechre Live In London Hardcore Is More Than Music Media Box Paddington Development Trust The Cut On Myspace