Immortal Technique spoke with VladTV about the murder of Chinx. He says that he didn’t know Chinx personally, but has mutual connections. The Viper Records rapper says that even though the incident is tragic, he isn’t afraid of the hood.
“It makes me think about when I went home to Latin America and people recognized me for the first time,” he says. “I did notice a couple of people looking at me sideways like, ‘Is he real here in the middle of the hood?’ Like I was walking through Callao, Peru which was like, believe that’s a hardcore place to be. And what I saw there was not the hood that I looked down upon. It was a hood full of struggling poor people that came from a beautiful culture that were just try to make it. The reality is that poverty makes people do reckless things, but rich people do way worse to protect the money that they have and to take advantage of things.”
The South American rapper disagrees with the need to stay out of the ghetto. He says that growing up in New York exposed him to many different gangs, but he denies the need to disassociate himself.
“If you know the people there who are there in the community, it’s different,” he says. “If you a person that gives back to the community and people know that, then at least there may be a little bit more leeway that you’re given.”
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Poor people are some of the worst people I have ever met. IF you grow up poor you know what I’m talking about. People talk shit about rich people, and there are some spoiled and awful rich people, but let’s not forget that EVERYTHING bad that poor people do is blamed on poverty. A lot of them are just rapists and murderers and thieves and liars and cheats. This lionization of the impoverished needs to stop, and Immortal Technique needs to stop acting like he is a black gang member with some new sort of insight.
What a load of pigeon hole rubbish dude. Tech is one of the most down to earth knowledgeable people in Hip-Hop. Go get a real world perspective on life instead of filling you head with that fox news bullshit. Shitty humans like you are what is wrong with the world.
as someone that grew up and spent the formative years of my life in a poverty ridden area, a-fucking-men. i’ve seen very few “nice” poor people – mostly criminals, “just rapists and murderers and thieves and liars and cheats,” they don’t know no other way and don’t wanna know no other way.
Rekkington is just a privileged dude who only started to listening to rap music once Eminem became popular and i’m not talking early Em but once everyone started talking /listening to him …..Rekkington you have never met any poor people you dumb CUNT
LOL you really are the lowest hanging FRUIT on the tree …This comment says it all “EVERYTHING bad that poor people do is blamed on poverty. A lot of them are just rapists and murderers and thieves and liars and cheats”
Always makes me laugh when you read/see the middle classes most of who are just drowning in debt themselves …And they then blame the poor for all the worlds ill … Thank god you have the rich lobbyists who control the direction of your SUPPOSEDLY once great nation ….. Let’s see who you blame once the bankers etc make a run on the banking/fiat system ….
Rekkington… why did you feel the need to write the same comment with a different user name weirdo ?
*Rekkington*.. the creepy weirdo wrote “A lot of them are just rapists and murderers and thieves and liars and cheats ”
The same sad and friendless weirdo then used the name * JJ * and wrote more or less the exact same thing ALL over again (just rapists and murderers and thieves and liars and cheats )
You really are a sad and creepy attention seeking weirdo please BORE off WEIRDO ..lol
What about a new album?!!
Poor people have a choice. It IS the land of milk and honey after all. Even Young Thug is eating. If that doesn’t inspire you to make something out of your life, you’re clowning. Stop hating on rich people, they worked and took risks to be where they are.
Yeah poor people have a choice . Fuck them and their under funded schools .
Matter of fact Fuck them and their substandard housing It’s not like living in a hell hole ghetto should/would effect their grades etc.
Yeah fuck them and the fact that they have only been able to vote and have basic rights since the 60s ..They should have caught up with us by now they’ve had close to 50 years to close the gap god darn it !! FUCK THE 300 YEARS THAT CAME BEFORE IT INTER GENERATION POVERTY IS A MYTH …Apparently
Fuck them they always complaining because their neighborhoods are drug infested hell holes rampant with drugs such as heroin crack etc .
Well They should stop investing in poppy fields in places like Afghanistan and IMPORTING THAT SHIT VIA LAND AND SEA INTO THE USA ….
Fuck them complaining about the way they have been DEMONIZED in the media for the past 100 years + … It’s not like they don’t own or have ownership of the SOCIAL ENGINEERING media conglomerates who have decided for the past 100 years+ what the sheep /people believe in ..
Christopher ward you really are a shining beacon kicking knowledge the POOR need to listen too … *scratches head and realizes their really is no hope …*
@ fox snooze . Well said but you know that will go over their heads
@ Christopher Ward . You used Young Thug as ananalogie anything you say after that becomes null and void .
@FOX SNOOZE Everything you’ve said holds no substance. Your neighbourhood shouldn’t define what you become. Just because drugs are available freely doesn’t mean you should take them, just coz you live in a crap house doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try and better your situation. My thing with poor people is they’re sometimes too lazy to work and be something. Our society has bred beggars, people who want things for free or done for them. We’re taught in high school that drugs are bad, sleeping around is bad yet we go and do it and become addicts and get HIV. FOH. YOU’RE in control of your future. We as a people need to stop looking at the next man to feel sorry for us. Get TF up and work homey.
Chris, please do not try to misconstrue my words. Not once did i claim that because the ghettos both black and white have a lot of drugs that people should take them .
In fact despite what Fox news might tell you a lot of the buyers of drugs in these neighborhoods are from the suburbs as in a lot of cases those particular purchasers have a higher disposable income than the inhabitants of that particular neighborhood where they are purchasing said drugs from.
Of course the environment you grow up in has a bearing on your prospects . And yes when possible you should elevate yourself from the crime ridden dysfunctional neighborhood you grew up in .. However to claim that your environment has no bearing on your future is a fallacy .. Chris think about it . You have two new born babies one is raised in a caring and nurturing environment and the other is raised in not only a dysfunctional family but also raised in a dysfunctional area/neighborhood .. Chris,If you are a betting man I can guarantee which one your money is on to potentially make a success of their future selves .
You say my problem with poor people is they are lazy … Again you are failing to engage your brain and see the bigger picture … You do know that a large amount of poor working class people are in some cases holding down 3 or more jobs to get by
However you are right in one respect society has engineered people in the west to expect something for nothing i.e their is a safety net in place in comparison to living in a 3 rd world nation … But if you think getting by on less than the minimum wage is something people to aspire to you really don’t see the bigger picture .
The reason we don’t have enough disposable income is because we spend it on unnecessary shit like drugs and $200 shirts just to stunt on the “haters”. White people have had a longer time to get their shit together and even they haven’t got it all tightened up. Can we not look at them as an example of how to and how not to acquire currency?
LOL.. you really are lost .
Well