Whereas my last projects have been strictly autobiographical, this album opens the lens to showcase the amazing and sometimes tragic lives of my friends and loved-ones who have shaped me as a man. The DVD is my sold-out homecoming show from The Undisputed Truth Tour.Īnt and I just released our latest full-length album "Us". "The Truth Is Here EP/DVD is a collection of music that ANT and I made during the few precious breaks we had from our tour schedule. This past March we released the final chapter in the Undisputed Truth movement. I was also blessed to tour Europe and Australia several more times with Atmosphere. I did a US tour with Rakim and Ghostface Killah of Wu-Tang Clan.
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I played on TV a few times including Late Night with Conan O'Brien (Mint Condition backed me up for that one). I was featured in The Source Magazine's "Hip Hop Quotable" and Rolling Stone's "Artist To Watch" columns. My crew and I did our first headlining tours in the US, Canada and Australia. I had a great couple of years because of that record. Our last major release was The Undisputed Truth in Spring of '07. The Champion EP dropped in 04 and we kept it moving. We toured constantly for the next few years with comrades like Brand Nubian, Immortal Technique and Rakim.
We made Shadows On The Sun and I started touring in support of Atmosphere (my label-mates and big brothers). Ant and I started working together in '02. I met the Rhymesayers crew in the late 90's and learned the next level of DIY music. By High School I was battling in cyphers everywhere I went and rockin' school dances. I started writing and recording my own songs in Jr. When KRS-One, Rakim and Public Enemy came out in the late 80's it blew my mind. I use to study and memorize the greats like Melle Mell, Slick Rick and Whoodini. I've lived and loved the culture of Hip Hop since I was in grade school, 1985. Although he promised his third release would see the light of day in 2005, it wasn't until the summer of 2007 that - besides a few singles and mixtapes - fans got any new material from Immortal Technique, coming in the form of the full-length The Middle Passage." - Marisa Brown, AllMusicGuide
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The record, plus his indefatigable work ethic, earned him local recognition and a spot as The Source's "unsigned hype" in November 2002, and the following year he issued his second album, Revolutionary, Vol. 1, in 2001 (an album that was later re-released by his own company, Viper Records, in 2004 and Babygrande in 2005). Out in 1999, on parole, he moved back to New York, where he spent his days working various jobs and his nights battling other rappers, a forum that allowed him the opportunity to show off his aggressive, vituperative style.Ĭoncerned that he was being pigeonholed as a one-trick pony, Tech set about writing complete tracks, finding beats to accompany them, and eventually releasing his debut, Revolutionary, Vol. It was there that he began to study the lives and teachings of black and Latino revolutionaries like Che Guevara and Malcolm X, as well as to devote himself to writing songs. Despite the fact he was in and out of trouble throughout his teenage years, Tech was accepted at Penn State University, but before he could get through much of college, he was arrested and eventually ended up spending a year in prison. At age nine he started rapping, though he didn't start to take it more seriously until he was in high school. "Born Felipe Coronel in a military hospital in Lima, Peru, in 1978, Immortal Technique moved to Harlem with his parents when he was two years old.
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