Harlem Renaissance-Immortal Technique

[ti:Harlem Renaissance] [ar:Immortal Technique] [al:The 3rd World] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.88]"Let me welcome both of you [00:03.58]Uh to the show this morning to talk about what I consider [00:06.13]To be a very very important topic uh the Harlem Renaissance [00:09.57]But before we get into that " [00:10.75]Immortal Technique: [00:11.76]Yeah Harlem once was red line district rated （uhh） [00:14.32]Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David [00:15.69]And you wonder why people don't own they homes （why ） [00:19.01]Cause the racist bank wouldn't f**kin mortgage a loan [00:21.77]Harlem once was red line district rated （uhh） [00:24.46]Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David [00:26.84]And you wonder why people don't own they homes （why ） [00:29.90]Cause the racist bank wouldn't f**kin mortgage a loan WAKE UP [00:32.58]Harlem once was red line district rated （uhh） [00:35.15]Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David [00:37.63]And you wonder why people don't own they homes （why ） [00:40.44]Cause the racist bank wouldn't f**kin mortgage a loan [00:42.57]Until after the invasion of gentrification [00:45.44]Eminent domain intimidation that's not negotiation [00:48.25]And it's frustratin to look at every day [00:51.07]Like watchin a porno on 56-K [00:52.38] [00:53.91]Biohazard labs instead of store rooms [00:55.97]What's next motherf**ker projects as dorm rooms [00:58.67]You ain't fool nobody in this community duke [01:01.98]With your little fake Manhattanville community group [01:03.67]Ivy league real estate firms are corrupt [01:07.11]I lay siege to your castle like the Moors in Europe [01:10.42]They treat street vendors like criminal riff-raff [01:13.18]While politicians get the corporate kickbacks （snakes） [01:15.30]Chorus: Immortal Technique [01:16.48]Harlem Renaissance a revolution betrayed [01:18.11]Modern day slaves thinkin that the ghetto is saved [01:20.30]'Til they start deportin people off the property [01:22.17]Ethnically cleansin the hood economically [01:23.80]They wanna kill the real Harlem Renaissance [01:27.63]Tryin to put the Virgin Mary through a early menopause [01:30.82]The savior is a metaphor for how we set it off [01:33.51]Guerrilla war against the re-zoning predators [01:35.44]Immortal Technique: [01:36.99]When I speak about Harlem I speak to the world [01:39.67]The little Afghan boy and the Bosnian girl [01:41.86]The African in Sudan the people of Kurdistan [01:43.99]The third world American indigenous man [01:46.55]Palestinians Washington Heights Dominicans [01:48.17]Displaced New Orleans citizens [01:50.36]Beachfront Brazilian favelas that you livin in [01:52.30]The hood is prime real estate they want back in again （f**k outta here） [01:56.17]I didn't write this to talk sh*t I say it because [01:59.86]Some of y'all forgot what the Harlem Renaissance was [02:02.83]We had revolution music and artisans [02:05.27]But the movement was still f**ked up like Parkinson's [02:08.08]Cause while we were givin birth to the culture we love [02:10.83]Prejudice kept our own people out of the club [02:14.02]Only colored celebrities in the party （fake ni**a ） [02:16.83]And left us a legacy of false superiority [02:19.30]W E B Du Bois versus Marcus Garvey [02:21.55]And we ended up sellin out to everybody [02:23.62]The Dutch and the John Gotti's [02:25.49]Banksters modern day gangsters immobile army [02:27.55]They wanna move us all out the N Y C [02:29.80]Like they did to the Jews with the Alhambra decree [02:34.12]So support your own businesses and do the knowledge [02:37.05]Cause the real Harlem Renaissance is economic （yeah） [02:39.80]Chorus: Immortal Technique [02:40.49]Harlem Renaissance a revolution betrayed [02:42.24]Modern day slaves thinkin that the ghetto is saved [02:44.93]'Til they start deportin people off the property [02:47.93]Ethnically cleansin the hood economically [02:49.93]They wanna kill the real Harlem Renaissance [02:52.43]Tryin to put the Virgin Mary through a early menopause [02:55.37]The savior is a metaphor for how we set it off [02:58.18]Guerrilla war against the re-zoning predators [03:00.74] "Green Lantern The Evil Genius " [03:02.05]"When they were saying it is the renaissance of Harlem [03:06.43]They didn't mean that we had stake in that [03:09.74]They meant to say that they could make money out of us" [03:14.30] [03:15.99]"They are coming in with all kind of prejudices [03:18.74]In Brooklyn they're doing the same thing [03:21.36]In um Queens they're doing the same thing; the Bronx [03:25.49] [03:26.12]There's hardly any place which is affordable [03:29.31]I mean these people are putting up condominiums [03:31.85]Which start from a million dollars [03:33.85]How many people in this community make that kind of money [03:37.85]How many people have that kind of money " [03:40.60] [03:41.41]"People of Harlem they are the natural allies of the oppressed people [03:46.79]Of the world whether the struggle is in Panama in Africa Cuba" [03:54.10]"We spend money with the wrong people [03:56.97]We are looking for love with people who don't love us [04:00.41]What's wrong with us loving each other [04:02.54]And making sure that we are protected "