Felipe Andres Coronel born February 19, , better known by the stage name Immortal Technique, is a Peruvian American hip hop recording artist and activist. Most of his lyrics focus on controversial issues in global politics, from a radical left-wing perspective. Immortal Technique seeks to retain control over his production, and has stated in his music that record companies, not artists themselves, profit the most from mass production and marketing of music.

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But he seemed contrarily interesting, seemed lyrically inclined as he is. So I delved deeper. By my Freshman year of High school, I was listening to Immortal Technique nonstop on the way to school, in class, in the hallways, and at lunch talking to my friends. But by the time I had become obsessed with his music, it had been quite some time since any releases. He was the most articulate rapper I had ever heard. While his last individual album was released over a decade ago, he remains relevant in many original fans minds. Because of the intelligence he displayed in his music throughout his career, people care what he has to say: they really do. He has over K Twitter followers as to date and typically tweets about current political issues. Immortal Technique in the trenches with my nigga Akir Our family survived the genocides so we can be here And now we enterprise the aftermath, one in the same. What he brought to the rap game has yet to be mimicked or even minorly touched upon.
Felipe Andres Coronel born February 19, , better known by the stage name Immortal Technique , is a Peruvian American hip hop recording artist and activist. Most of his lyrics focus on controversial issues in global politics, from a radical left-wing perspective. Immortal Technique seeks to retain control over his production, [1] and has stated in his music that record companies, not artists themselves, profit the most from mass production and marketing of music. He claimed in an interview to have sold close to a combined total of , copies of his first three official releases. Coronel is Peruvian and was born in a military hospital in Lima. After being paroled, he took political science classes at Baruch College in New York City for two semesters at the behest of his father, who allowed Coronel to live with him on the condition that he went to school.