Buy Immortal Technique's new album, the 3rd World. The underground emcee returns with lyrics that will piss off just about everybody.

Track Listing

1. Death March (featuring Dj Green Lantern)
2. That's What it Is
3. Golpe De Estado (featuring Veneno & Temperamento)
4. Harlem Renaissance
5. Lick Shots (featuring Chino XL, Crooked I)
6. Apocrypha - Interlude
7. The 3rd World
8. Hollywood Driveby (featuring Psycho Realm & Sick Symphonies)
9. Reverse Pimpology (featuring Mojo)
10. Open Your Eyes
11. The Payback (featuring Diabolic & RasKass)
12. Adios Uncle Tom - Skit
13. Stronghold Grip (featuring Poison Pen & Swave Sevah)
14. Mistakes
15. Parole (Evil Genius Mix)
16. Crimes of the Heart (featuring Maya Azucena)Bonus Cuts... In order of appearance.*Apocalypse Remix (featuring Akir & Pharoahe Monch)*Watchout Remix*Rebel Arms (featuring J.Arch & Da Circle)

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #58738 in Music
• Brand: Viper
• Released on: 2008-06-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Album Description
The concept behind the album coming is built around relating the streets here in the US to those around the world. To illustrate that no matter what we face here, our native post-colonial lands are suffering 1000 times worse. This project was made to create more dialogue and communication between this country and Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, The Middle East, and South East Asia, all those lands that were under European or American rule (less than 20 years ago in some places). For far too long we have been separated by petty rivalries and the unfathomably counterproductive superiority complexes that divide our people. No matter how difficult the conditions of our lives are in this nation they are still incomparable to the struggle of the people, (who we were once a part of) that are overseas or right across the border. Revolution is about a constant movement. So instead of retreating intellectually and physically, I choose to advance. I chose to build stronger alliances with my peoples overseas and here in this nation. This album/mixtape has something for everyone, not only in the style of music but in terms of it's mention of so many important topics that are sometimes swept under the rug by corporate media and culture that was bastardized by the oligarchy of the music industry. The title itself has a dual significance, the struggle of developing countries (who are usually almost always former slave states or vassal kingdoms) are mirrored within the Rap Industry. In the same way that First World Super Powers have traditionally and now continuously exploited the 3rd world for its natural resources, land, labor and industry the Major Label Super powers have done the same. Not only in the underground of Hip Hop but music in general, because the underground is the "The 3rd World." They have taken the industry, the labor and the intellectual property of our culture and claimed ownership as they once did by landing on foreign soil that didn't belong to them in the first place. They have fed us propaganda on both ends, one telling us that I order to be civilized and part of a globalized economy that we had to privatize our water, communications transportation, sell the rights to our oil, diamonds, farm lands etc... the other telling us that to succeed in the music business that we have to sell our publishing, our masters, and sign 360 deals where they own the rights to our merchandise and a large % of our shows. This album is a vivid and up close and personal look at the two intertwined battles for independence. Burt besides criticizing the album is also self critical, not only of myself personally for the mistakes I made in life and those my friends around me have made, but what we as a people have done to prolong our own mental, physical and spiritual bondage. The fight is not just against invasion and occupation thought but we struggle within ourselves, as the album itself doesn't try to paint America as "the great satan" but rather as simply a corporate mechanism that has vavasour like representatives in places like Africa, Latin America and The Middle East. There the people who are oppressing us are ourselves, motivated by greed, avarice, and an overwhelming lust for power that created once asset allies turned fallguys like Manuel Noriega and Sadaam Hussein. In other words oppression is not so much about the mask of race that was created to justify the existence of a class system but now our own people are the same ones exploiting us. Just as in the music industry as well, because the manner in which they are educated to operate is no different from that of the people that have traditionally exploited us. The struggle for independence is not just a metaphor for what goes on in countries fighting for their hegemonic voice, but also for the will and the strength to be interpreted so by the very music that defines a people and a country.

This struggle that is playing itself out between the resistance that fights for the culture and soul of Hip Hop opened my eyes to that fact that we are not outnumbered. Just not organized as well as we should be. I have traveled to many places South America, Central America, Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean and I look forward to building more solid frontiers with people who are doing the same where they are. Many told me that this war was impossible to win, and that the inevitable death of the substance left in this music and any music would come by force. But I, and the people I involved with this project such as Green Lantern who has been working on this with me since early 2007, and Southpaw as well as the few and proud over at Viper Records will not accept such a fate for our people. The 3rd World has a very diverse sound in its production and in the slew of guests I have asked to be a part of it. It also has a wide variety of concepts that are in the form of songs, which help to bring the story of this struggle to life. And even though it is an album in terms of being all original tracks Dj Green Lantern cut and blended the tracks together like a traditional mixtape. There are supporters of mine who have been waiting on other projects I promised, "The Middle Passage" and "Revolutionary Vol.3" two interestingly complicated projects that I am still working on and actually about half done with. This album was a bridge to the other albums that I have coming. It is a violent but lyrically saturated expression of music with a purpose and I thank all of the long time supporters of the message and the music for all that they have done in joining this Revolution that continues. Peace & Respect, Immortal Technique

From the Artist
The concept behind the album coming is built around relating the streets here in the US to those around the world. To illustrate that no matter what we face here, our native post-colonial lands are suffering 1000 times worse. This project was made to create more dialogue and communication between this country and Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe, The Middle East, and South East Asia, all those lands that were under European or American rule (less than 20 years ago in some places). For far too long we have been separated by petty rivalries and the unfathomably counterproductive superiority complexes that divide our people. No matter how difficult the conditions of our lives are in this nation they are still incomparable to the struggle of the people, (who we were once a part of) that are overseas or right across the border. Revolution is about a constant movement. So instead of retreating intellectually and physically, I choose to advance. I chose to build stronger alliances with my peoples overseas and here in this nation. This album/mixtape has something for everyone, not only in the style of music but in terms of it's mention of so many important topics that are sometimes swept under the rug by corporate media and culture that was bastardized by the oligarchy of the music industry. The title itself has a dual significance, the struggle of developing countries (who are usually almost always former slave states or vassal kingdoms) are mirrored within the Rap Industry. In the same way that First World Super Powers have traditionally and now continuously exploited the 3rd world for its natural resources, land, labor and industry the Major Label Super powers have done the same. Not only in the underground of Hip Hop but music in general, because the underground is the "The 3rd World." They have taken the industry, the labor and the intellectual property of our culture and claimed ownership as they once did by landing on foreign soil that didn't belong to them in the first place. They have fed us propaganda on both ends, one telling us that I order to be civilized and part of a globalized economy that we had to privatize our water, communications transportation, sell the rights to our oil, diamonds, farm lands etc... the other telling us that to succeed in the music business that we have to sell our publishing, our masters, and sign 360 deals where they own the rights to our merchandise and a large % of our shows. This album is a vivid and up close and personal look at the two intertwined battles for independence. Burt besides criticizing the album is also self critical, not only of myself personally for the mistakes I made in life and those my friends around me have made, but what we as a people have done to prolong our own mental, physical and spiritual bondage. The fight is not just against invasion and occupation thought but we struggle within ourselves, as the album itself doesn't try to paint America as "the great satan" but rather as simply a corporate mechanism that has vavasour like representatives in places like Africa, Latin America and The Middle East. There the people who are oppressing us are ourselves, motivated by greed, avarice, and an overwhelming lust for power that created once asset allies turned fallguys like Manuel Noriega and Sadaam Hussein. In other words oppression is not so much about the mask of race that was created to justify the existence of a class system but now our own people are the same ones exploiting us. Just as in the music industry as well, because the manner in which they are educated to operate is no different from that of the people that have traditionally exploited us. The struggle for independence is not just a metaphor for what goes on in countries fighting for their hegemonic voice, but also for the will and the strength to be interpreted so by the very music that defines a people and a country.

This struggle that is playing itself out between the resistance that fights for the culture and soul of Hip Hop opened my eyes to that fact that we are not outnumbered. Just not organized as well as we should be. I have traveled to many places South America, Central America, Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean and I look forward to building more solid frontiers with people who are doing the same where they are. Many told me that this war was impossible to win, and that the inevitable death of the substance left in this music and any music would come by force. But I, and the people I involved with this project such as Green Lantern who has been working on this with me since early 2007, and Southpaw as well as the few and proud over at Viper Records will not accept such a fate for our people. The 3rd World has a very diverse sound in its production and in the slew of guests I have asked to be a part of it. It also has a wide variety of concepts that are in the form of songs, which help to bring the story of this struggle to life. And even though it is an album in terms of being all original tracks Dj Green Lantern cut and blended the tracks together like a traditional mixtape. There are supporters of mine who have been waiting on other projects I promised, "The Middle Passage" and "Revolutionary Vol.3" two interestingly complicated projects that I am still working on and actually about half done with. This album was a bridge to the other albums that I have coming. It is a violent but lyrically saturated expression of music with a purpose and I thank all of the long time supporters of the message and the music for all that they have done in joining this Revolution that continues. Peace & Respect, Immortal Technique

About the Artist
Born in a military hospital in South America, Immortal Technique was brought to the United States in the early 80's while a civil war was breaking out in his native Peru. Exchanging the struggle and turmoil of a life in South America for the streets of New York in the mid 80's Immortal Technique's family migrated to Harlem. Although, there was a violent and often lawless element in the city of New York during that era, and after being arrested for several different offenses Immortal Technique eventually ended up serving some time incarcerated for some violent offenses. Upon his being paroled, Technique immediately began entering local area battles and taking the skills he had gained at rhyming to the forefront of the NYC underground Hip hop scene. He began winning just about every battle that the city had before he realized that he could really get the ideas and concepts for songs across much better with the release of his music. He worked multiple jobs, often menial to come up with the money even getting a small sum under the table from an executive from a major label that wanted nothing in return. He relied on his skills as a battle rapper using all the money from the contest he won to create a CD featuring some of the work that he completed in prison and a few songs written on parole. The project turned into a 17-track album that was titled, "Revolutionary Vol.1." Roughly 2,500 copies were pressed up and without any distribution, production budget advertisement, and sold out completely. Opening for mainstream and other underground artists he worked his way up the ranks all while constantly touring wherever he could go, earning praises in Unsigned Hype in the Source (May, 2002) and working on a follow up album to the first one he did. In 2003 he began working with a label he had become a part of called Viper Records. There with others that were involved in prison reform and spreading a message of social justice his graphically violent and lyrically fierce rhyming style found a place to mature and grow into a more refined message. The key component was that Immortal Technique was personally involved in all aspects of the music, marketing, artwork, song writing, structure, and personally took charge of his own career. In early 2004 he officially released Revolutionary Vol.2 through a distributor and showcased the result of all his hard work. The album took off becoming an instant underground classic. The singles charted #50 on billboard and both singles, "Industrial Revolution" and "The Point of No Return" also earned the #1 spot on the CMJ charts. And before the release of his album the rapper became one of the only unsigned rappers to ever receive a Hip Hop Quotable in The Source (10/03). After Revolutionary Vol.2 had already generated a rigorous nation wide tour schedule he began working with Dj Green Lantern creating a song featuring Mos Def called "Bin Laden". The song had a very incendiary hook but it was structured in that way to bring people into listen to the lyrics and spread a message reminiscent of when the spirit of Hip Hop used to meet at the crux of the Hardcore street sound and a Revolutionary message. The single and the remix featuring Public Enemy's Chuck D and KRS 1 on the hook became an underground favorite as well, even sneaking onto the airwaves of NYC's own Hot97.

Between 2005 and 2007 Immortal Technique began working on The Middle Passage and Revolutionary Vol.3 the two albums that would serve a follow up to Revolutionary Vol.2 and complete the series. He was also was featured on several movie soundtracks, video game soundtracks. All the while touring relentlessly and becoming heavily involved in visiting prisons to speak to youth and working with immigrant rights activists and raising tens of thousands of dollars for children's hospitals overseas. He invested his money not in chains, fancy cars and luxurious homes but rather in large pieces of farmland in Latin America. He created a writing grant program for high school students and has involved himself in the structuring of an orphanage in Afghanistan. In late 2007 before the continuation of the Revolutionary series Immortal Technique and Dj Green Lantern decided to do An album together and connect the struggles of this nation to those occurring overseas. The result was the mixtape/album called "The 3rd World" being released June 24th of 2008 through Viper Records. Underground legend, Revolutionary leader, accomplished battle champion and an independent success selling more than 135,000 units without a major label Immortal Technique is not a product of marketing, and industry imagery, he is the real thing.

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Customer Reviews

REAL HIP HOP!
This is the type of album that hip hop needs at this moment. If you are looking for music that informs, uplifts, enlightens, and wakes up the masses than this album is for you. If you are tired of the misogyny, violence, guns, females, bling talk in today's "RAP" music then Immortal Technique's third world is for you. We live in a society where mass media and corporations control and dumb down the people. It is refreshing to have a brother like Technique constantly go against the grain and actually be a voice to all the voiceless who are caught in the struggle and oppression. Support real hip hop and purchase this gem; you will not be disappointed.

His Best Yet By Far
Thanks to this CD, Immortal Technique is THE best political rapper out, and I listen to to a lot of stuff, Dead Prez, Papoose, Joe Budden, Mos Def, Joell Ortiz, Big Lou, the Roots, for example. He is the rare artist that can express revolutionary socialist politics through hard, clever rhymes that I haven't heard since Big L passed (RIP). For those who don't know, his standpoint is that of the politically conscious streetwise hustler who is willing to survive and overturn the system by any means necessary, and that's what gives his political rhymes their emotional punch.

If you've heard his earlier stuff on Revolutionary Volumes 1 and 2, imagine that but with zero weak/mediocore songs. Teaming up with DJ Green Lantern has been a big part of why this CD is so consistently amazing, but Immortal Technique definitely stepped his game up, developed himself as an artist, and worked really hard to put out something this good.

I was surprised to hear a sample from the Star Wars: the Phantom Menace soundtrack on the "Watchout Remix" and I was even more surprised how well he rhymed over it. In "Open Your Eyes," he does a spoken word piece in the same style as "Poverty of Philosophy" off his first album, and it's just as hard-hitting, insightful, and true as the original but there is more urgency to his message, given that the policies he's talking about have killed thousands of Americans in the war and millions (yes millions) of Iraqis through war and the sanctions that preceded them.

If this isn't the best release of the year, it will definitely be in the top 5. Well worth the $15.70 I paid for it. Anyone who likes this, downloads it, and doesn't pay, deserves to be shot. This man releases his music independent of the corporate behemoths that dominate the music industry and suffocate real hip-hop under the weight of trash like Soulja Boy, so when you don't pay, you're taking food off this man's plate.

Hip hop isn't dead as long as people buy CDs like this one.

WE COMIN
"I have always told people to burn my music because I want them to listen if they cannot find it in stores or can't afford it. And if you have no money and you want it, by all means I invite you to get it and spread the word. I just ask that you encourage those that really connect to it to help us out here. We have survived a war fighting with nothing, no major budget, no corporation investing in us, just us. Just a room full of people, of all races and religions, trying to make this Guerilla War successful, but we hope to do more than a traditional Guerilla campaign, we want to do more than just hold out long enough to cripple the enemy, we aim to rip apart section of the industry and make a real voice for truth. Hardcore truth from the streets, not just of America, but of The 3rd World. I wish inspire the people themselves who are the main component of any nation to rise up. Not like a mob, but as an informed and aware public that will not be swayed by cheap political parlor tricks and generic music." I.T.

I'm not sure Technique will ever sell out his message and for me that earns five stars alone. This album may not be a Rev Vol 1 or 2, but more importantly he brings something new... the 3rd World! "f+++ your chain, my people will k--- you for water!" lol gotta love it! Support