Immortal Technique was arrested Thursday (March 26) on suspicion of assault and robbery in connection with street vendors who were allegedly bootlegging t-shirts with his namesake.
According the the police report, the Harlem native was booked in Santa Ana, California. Despite the arrest, Technique, who is co-headlining the People’s Champions Tour along with Talib Kweli, still performed a truncated set.
Santa Ana police also apprehended Tech’s tour manager, Steven Alexander McDaniel. The two have since posted their $50,000 bail and have been released. They were officially charged with suspicion of robbery and attempting to prevent or dissuade a victim from reporting a crime.
The alleged crime began when the street vendors claimed to have been met by 10 to 12 Immortal Technique affiliates at about 7:45 p.m. Subsequent to the removal of the victim’s t-shirts, cash and cell phones the incident reportedly turned violent.
Immortal Technique has yet to issue an official statement. HipHopDX will keep you posted as this story continues to develop.
For more on Talib Kweli and Immortal Technique’s People’s Champions Tour, watch the following DX Daily:
That picture
Enough said
Throw a sentence at him
F U Die slow
he should be happy anyone cares enough to bootleg his shit, like who da hell would wanna wear an immortal technique shirt?
13 year old white kids
smh its sad IT spits raps for the streets, for you guys and u say ‘white kids’ he doesnt even talk about white ppl struggling lol and white ppl like him more..blak ppl r ass backwards
only people i ever heard talk about him are white boys
ur circles fav rappers are probably wayne drake and future though. You dont like immortal so u surround urself around like minded ppl.
nigga picture look like he went on a killing spee
No Country For Old Men looking ass
hell come out with a song in a day or two about how the white man instilled violence in him in such a young age he had no choice but to stike bc thats all he knew. looll
lol, you have to be THAT typical robotic race baiting douchebag? the vendors were selling bootleg copies of his work. i see it as an artist vs bootlegging issue, but for some reason you seem to feel the need to make this a race issue, i’m guessing that youre either white or asian. they make every non white & asian video about race.
oh well, the intnernet will internet
it was a joke which is why i sid loll at the end
yes i am white but this is the internet, to say just white people race bait is ridicilous and frankly, only shit black people say.
just go to worldstar and peep the comments, same with youtube..everyone does it dont limit it to one race.
When shit hits the fan are you still a fan.
Can’t be mad at people bootleggin your stuff…That’s always a good sign. It means your in demand.
Its not to fill his pockets with that money,..these are t-shirts to feed the poor in third world countries!!!..
So bootlegging means ur litterly taking food out of a kids mouths….
Its bigger then music my friend!!!..nothing wrong putting up a fight to feed these kids!!!..Peoples Army!!!..
nothing but comments from a bunch of outsider glass house livers who know nothing.
Immortal Technique is one of the most dangerous Rappers!!!!
I bet FBI and the CIA are happy to lock him up!!!…
You know how it goes when your a whistle blower, either u end up in jail or Dead!!!…
I feared for his life since his first album,..suprised hes not dead yet, and realy hope that will never happend!!!….we need rappers like him to wake the world up!!!!..
And please you dummies out there,…its not a race issue,..its the evil things men do vs good deeds!!!..
Nothing wrong with exposing the Evil things men do,..so we all can learn to be a beter man then yesterday!!!..
Yeah I bet it was the CIA that planted those bootleggers for him to rob and assault….. LOL
You watch too many movies.
This nigga wanna be Che Guevara so bad
Che was a doctor, not a petty criminal
this nigga haircut tho.
Assaulting and robbing the working man trying to make a buck by infringing on your intellectual copyright, how very revolutionary of you Mr. Technique.
I’m willing to bet you a well trained/conformed say nothing consumer. Most of the time you go to the store because it’s open, not because you really really need something from there. Now go and reassess your life.
sumone selling shit off your name without getting the go-ahead or working with you deserve to be slapped up n robbed
Yea no doubt, but Immortal technique is a pussy because that goes against everything he preaches. lmao… he hates capitalism, yet capitalism is exactly what dictates ownership of ones image and likeness. that is the whole point of capitalism the belief of ownership of property earned. and its so funny cause Immortal technique loves to act like money means nothing so why would him and his crew be upset about this? just a few days ago he was saying on twitter that its not about money… so if it aint about money then let someone else eat if they are willing to hustle right? Wrong its his image and likelness so he should be getting something for his likeness, but that would make Immortal tech a hypocrite.
Immortal’s mantra is about letting Mr Main St have access to manufacturing, resources, and distribution so he won’t have to bootleg asshole. You can sell merch at an Immortal Technique venue if you a true hustler because you would try to market your own brand so STFU ya fake intellect.
i bet Immortal Technique has used stolen samples in his music before and never compensated the artists whose works he used/stole without permission.
you got a point but sellin sumthing outside his show is just showing disrespect guess it just brought the harlem side of him out ……he could be in serious shit for this they did O.J for the exact same thing and he got 16 years? I think
I thought he wasn’t going back to jail… revolutionary contradiction
This makes absolutely no sense. Why the fuck did IT & Co. do this shit when they’ve been consistent & true to there word for over a decade? We’re talking about a nigga who works prison programs, gives college lectures, shit, he even built a fucking orphanage in Afghanistan. It just does make sense. I mean, he’s way too smart to fuck up his reputation & risk jail time on some bullshit like fucking a nigga up for bootlegging T-shirts.