Young Lords-Immortal Technique/Joell Ortiz

[ti:Young Lords] [ar:Immortal Technique] [al:The Martyr] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Young Lords - Immortal Technique/Joell Ortiz [00:10.13]New to the world fresh out the barrio [00:13.38]I was an outlaw rebel [00:15.38]Out of my mind young and wild [00:17.56]My existence defined in one word Survive [00:21.74] [00:22.49]If it could be sold I can sell it If it can't that's cool [00:25.86]I'll fix it up make it look good enough to catch some fools [00:28.85]It started when I was young with my genesis games [00:31.66]He traded me John Madden for I don't remember the name [00:34.78]But it was weak though the streets though they play with perico [00:37.47]So Tito became my hijo he had cheap blow [00:40.65]And each o like three four times I flipped ones [00:43.58]But it's evil the people I deal with'll stick nuns [00:46.59]With big guns the diesel that diesel never change [00:49.32]The custies still nod like they agree with everything [00:51.57]The w**d ain't the same all the colors is new [00:54.81]It ain't just green the haze is purple and them berries is blue [00:57.87]I don't care if it was pink as long as they still smoking [01:01.18]I had them bags packed until they damn near open [01:03.80]The hustle's in my veins I could bleed in a pot [01:06.48]And make a soup that'd go for 10 dollars a pop [01:09.23]In la calle on a collision course with incarceration consumed by the lies of the streets they were an illusion but I awoke caged like an animal [01:21.08]They got me locked in a cell where I'm feeling like an experiment [01:24.33]My spirit sharper than lasers they used to build pyramids [01:26.83]Writing on the walls keep me sane [01:29.13]Knuckle push-ups on the concrete till I bleed out the pain [01:32.63]Thoughts of my freedom lingering in my brain [01:35.25]I'm stronger and much quicker I appreciate the gain [01:38.43]Building with my a-alike brown power reunite [01:41.36]Tattoos of my flag PR pride Jesus Christ [01:44.30]But I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy [01:47.17]So when I'm free I'll teach and spread the speech [01:49.54]Of how they try to divide us to make us weak [01:51.85]Find us and break a piece So I gotta [01:53.72]To make a peace honest I play for keeps [01:55.78]This is the life of your forefathers that fought hard [01:58.02]Four corners of backyards power in numbers [01:59.77]So they subtract us and add bars [02:02.40]If they want it we gonna take 'em to war [02:05.71]We not a gang or a clique we Young Lords [02:07.46]I came to my senses un esclavo no soy that is not my past I came to know me and my people red brown and black helped me paint the future [02:18.44]The world got a template to turn us into inmates [02:21.25]Caged in a state pen Man f**k going to Penn state [02:24.81]Bonded to slave ships to punch in your timecard [02:27.77]Walk my oasis spacing jungle behind bars [02:30.20]Got my epiphany like Malcolm X [02:32.95]Prison to the bricks but I'm stuck in this global house arrest [02:35.95]I'm a free man so I changed my mannerisms [02:38.44]This Greenspan system wanna dent my activism [02:41.69]Estilo machetero get my people out the ghetto [02:44.18]21st century grito de alar estate quieto stay calm [02:47.11]We vocal minorities no pookie man trail [02:50.61]Guess the local authorities to be the Ho Chi Minh trail [02:53.54]From robbing bodegas and boosting like low-lives [02:56.60]The medium figures choking the four five [02:59.53]Revolutionary gangsters in your presence [03:02.53]Trying to dead us with cancer through chemical testing [03:04.62]Unidos por fin We seize the time free at last learn to love live to fight not just for me but for others teach the new blood and live for freedom [03:16.68]I survived the cointelpro assassinations [03:18.87]AIDS epidemic crack era fractured a nation [03:21.99]The interpretation of American democracy [03:24.80]Is best exemplified in its foreign policy dichotomy [03:27.73]I live a double-life of political philosophy [03:30.66]But revolution follows me the struggle for equality [03:33.66]Against the morally bankrupt claiming to be born again [03:36.84]It's a civil war again like MS-13's origin [03:39.58]Banned ethnic studies claiming our culture will swallow them [03:42.52]But you can't conquer people and build a country on top of them [03:45.57]And then feel offended that they breathe the same oxygen [03:48.26]Your family values lack the wisdom of Solomon [03:51.00]But Operation Condor and Operation Bootstrap [03:53.94]Are Poli Sci 101 research for the New Jack [03:57.24]It's hard to reach Communist Utopia tomorrow [03:59.49]When your hands are in a f**king glass jar like Che Guevara [04:02.24]Forget the distorted historical facts you were given [04:05.29]Slave trade was the capital for capitalism [04:08.10]Trapped in a prison mentally dying existentially [04:11.22]Separated from people you can't see yourself to be [04:14.35]Then racially integrated into a burning house [04:17.15]Colony of an empire economically burning out [04:19.90]Can't win a debate so they sponsor every threat to me [04:23.01]I wonder if Agent 800 is standing next to me