That's What It Is-Immortal Technique

[ti:That's What It Is] [ar:Immortal Technique] [al:The 3rd World] [by:] [offset:0] [00:12.18]Ok let's go talk to em' holler [00:18.21] [00:20.17]Don't you get tired of hearing niggas say that sh*t all the time [00:23.29]Why can't you shut the f**k up and rhyme ni**a [00:27.24]Yeah yeah used to run around getting my fight in the streets on [00:30.23]Back in the day before Harlem had a green zone [00:33.05]What good is a good education with no direction [00:35.30]Like the right to vote with no one to vote for in an election [00:37.86]Like a gun with no bullets in the clip for protection [00:41.11]Like the crowd packed in the front without the midsection [00:43.04]Used to live robbing and stealing and being reckless [00:46.04]It took time for my mind to put the ghetto in perspective [00:48.67] [00:49.62]I used to live in the back of a holding van [00:51.87]Used to be offbeat like the white girls' shoulder dance [00:54.37]I wrote rhymes a cappella no beat behind bars [00:57.12]Shed blood to make it like the story behind scars [00:59.75]I used to be a battle champion in the meanwhile [01:02.62]Before some of you little f**kers learned to freestyle [01:05.12]Prematurely senile underground prima donnas [01:08.06]I was Oliver North during Iran Contra [01:10.43]Cause I never snitched and that's backed by evidence [01:13.25]I learned it by watching you don't ever forget it b**ch [01:15.81]Cause everybody knows how the government do [01:17.87]They never snitch on themselves but they want you to snitch on YOU [01:21.87]Evolution from Australopithecus [01:23.00]Primitive commercial sh*t to hard-core lyricist [01:25.62]Your wax is useless [01:26.56]Rappers are dropping like Icarus [01:27.54] [01:29.54]Technological revolution ni**a picture this [01:31.98]（motherf**ka what ） [01:35.42] [01:41.73]Yeah I told you what it was but this is what it is now [01:45.31]Lyrical bullets packed to the top of the clip now [01:48.31]Treat it like a robbery I'm shutting this sh*t down [01:50.75]Fellas put your hands up and the all the women strip down [01:53.50]That's not misogynist you ostriches cause I could just apocalypse [01:56.56]Talk politics to the populace [01:58.50]Or challenge what the market is [01:59.94]With militant caucuses [02:01.63]That'll smash the spirit of Hip Hop out the sarcophagus [02:04.44]This is the curse of Tutankhamen I bring the drama on [02:07.19]I'm sinful I eat you broad daylight on Ramadan [02:09.81]Hip Hop reparations now we taking back Delucci [02:12.75]Don't tell me you spent it on coke like Danny Bonaduce [02:15.38]We're tired of being on the outside looking in [02:17.75]Wondering what the f**k Hip Hop would've been [02:20.50]This is what it is as opposed to what it used to be [02:23.32]And this is your corporate tax ID eulogy [02:25.48]Dominant speech is the new breed that won't let you breath [02:28.98]I'll make you die for what I believe [02:31.17]So we got nothing in common [02:32.42]There ain't no comparison [02:33.92]You got beef with niggas I got beef with Aryans [02:36.86]White power Nazi European Americans [02:39.54]Rapid Poverty pimps and fake vegetarians [02:42.11]The resurrection ripping a ball through the record （wrecking ） section [02:45.73]Flight connection to the gentry board of all guerrilla lessons [02:48.07]F**k a middle man distributor I got a choice now [02:50.38]This ain't Volume 1 I got a grown man's voice now [02:53.51]Toured the country four times over I'm older and wiser [02:56.50]Poisonous words you'll find strychnine in my saliva [02:59.01] [03:01.38]（motherf**ka what Bring it to 'em raw） [03:08.32] [03:09.20]I told you what it was but this is what it is now [03:12.07]50 caliber bullets I don't need a clip now [03:14.63]F**k your private jet ni**a we shooting the sh*t down [03:17.63]Bomb wall street and make the stock market dip down [03:20.01]I told you what it was but this is what it is now [03:22.87]You the sh*t ni**a I don't care about sh*t now [03:25.20]I play the role of Abraham idols get ripped down [03:27.89]Melt the ice caps and make all of this sh*t brown [03:30.89]（No one out there can f**k with me） [03:34.02]（motherf**ka what ） [03:35.83] [03:38.02]（I speak that real shit） [03:40.14]（to smash the airwaves） [03:41.83]（I don't want to tell you motherf**kers again）