Composición: Sobre una base de loops y beats, Inmortal Technique (el pseudónimo de Felipe Andrés Coronel, un peruano que migró a EEUU con su familia a los 2 años de edad, huyendo del inminente conflicto interno) utiliza la plataforma musical como una excusa para desenvolver sus explícitas y largas líricas; musicalmente completamente instalado en la tradición del Hip-Hop y rap, IT le debe, quizás más que a nadie, su sonido a los primeros discos de Wu-Tang Clan (Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)(1993), Wu-Tang forever (1997)), salpicando su alfombra de beats y sampleos con arreglos que recuerdan a campanas, cuerdas orientales y otros artilugios que buscan imitar un “sonido oriental” (Dominant Species) al mejor estilo de los Wu-tang (quienes estaban obsesionados con el Kung fu, una forma cuasi artística de sublimar su agresividad), para este efecto echa mano desde campanas, a violines en repetición (loops) y sampleos tocados a la inversa. ¿Suena oriental? Bueno, por momentos suena a lo que la imaginación occidental considera que es oriental, suena tan oriental como sonaría un chino rapero proxeneta molesto en el barrio chino de Nueva York, improvisando líricas contra la banda opositora que le ha robado a sus “bitches”. A esta base salpíquenle notas en piano repetidas, y alguna reminiscencia de flow latino (No me importa W Cuts Dj Blank Panther): el sonido de IT. En otros momentos del disco su sonido recuerda más al hip-hop-pop de Eminem (Positive Balance Feat Big Zoo), en muchas progresiones recuerda más a Rob Dougan, quien sin embargo tiene una mejor intuición para la composición. En Dance with the Devil, el corte más logrado del disco (y un semi-himno del hip-hop underground), interpola sampleos de piano clásico. IT, como la gran mayoría de raperos, funciona cuando encuentra un loop hipnotizante, las más de las veces bastante radio-friendly, algo frente a lo cual, sin embargo, IT cree revelarse; quiere bombardear el “negocio sucio de las compañías musicales” (y con ello embargar su sonido de fácil digestión), pero se muere de ganas de ser escuchado por todos y cada uno de los negros y latinos del hood. Quiere ser admirado por exactamente lo mismo que están haciendo los demás raperos, pero aduciendo libertad por no contar con un contrato, por lo cual exige mayor respeto; habría que respetarlo cuando componga algo interesante.
4/10
Ejecución: ¿Realmente qué tan difícil puede ser crear y recrear este sonido en una laptop y la ayuda de un dj medianamente decente? Por otra parte, IT es uno de los pocos raperos que puede entregar líricas rapeadas con tanta ferocidad, al mejor estilo de los mejores momentos de los Wu-Tang (algo que no han logrado desde 1997).
5.5/10
Originalidad: en esta placa hay tanta originalidad como en los comerciales por televisión sobre instrumentos para trabajar el abdomen.
2.5/10
Líricas: Las intención verdadera de IT, los beats no son sino una excusa para dar a conocer su visión revolucionaria (Revolutionary Vol. I, duh), anti capitalista, y mandarse con el rollo moralista de todo rapero del gueto (“Yo fui malo, pero aprendí y ahora soy bueno (o lo intento), no bailes con el diablo porque terminarás perdiendo, toma mi palabra, tiene valor porque mi madre fumaba crack, mi novia era prostituta, y he estado en balaceras, soy un malo arrepentido y tienes que creerme porque lo he vivido, blablabla”). IT es explícito, directo, y crudo, con un lenguaje que puede ser entendido por todos, no se muerde la lengua sobre ningún tema que quiera tocar. El mérito está en decir lo que quiere, aunque ciertamente la más de las veces hable cosas de plano ridículas, quiere sorprender siempre con información sacado de la manga en teorías de conspiración, dando a entender que es alguien leído, y que por eso ahora “puede ver la verdad” (dando datos sobre la crueldad norteamericana y su ambición capitalista), IT podría estar absolutamente en lo correcto (o podría, más probablemente, no estarlo), pero en su auto-admiración (donde, recordemos, quiere pintarse como alguien leído y con experiencia callejera, una mezcla de pandillero feroz con intelectual con estilo) se le va la mano y termina insultando a la misma gente que quiere “proteger”. Algunas letras de IT son más que líricas de rap, verdaderos manifiestos (torpes) largos. Por su preocupación con el contenido lírico cumplo con poner el manifiesto completo de uno de sus cortes, The poverty of Philosophy:
“Most of my Latino and black people who are struggling to get food, clothes and shelter in the hood are so concerned with that, that philosophising about freedom and socialist democracy is usually unfortunately beyond their rationale. They don't realize that America can't exist without separating them from their identity, because if we had some sense of who we really are, there's no way in hell we'd allow this country to push it's genocidal consensus on our homelands. This ignorance exists, but it can be destroyed.
Niggas talk about change and working within the system to achieve that. The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you. There is usually nothing wrong with compromise in a situation, but compromising yourself in a situation is another story completely, and I have seen this happen long enough in the few years that I've been alive to know that it's a serious problem. Latino America is a huge colony of countries whose presidents are cowards in the face of economic imperialism. You see, third world countries are rich places, abundant in resources, and many of these countries have the capacity to feed their starving people and the children we always see digging for food in trash on commercials. But plutocracies, in other words a government run by the rich such as this one and traditionally oppressive European states, force the third world into buying overpriced, unnecessary goods while exporting huge portions of their natural resources.
I'm quite sure that people will look upon my attitude and sentiments and look for hypocrisy and hatred in my words. My revolution is born out of love for my people, not hatred for others.
You see, most of Latinos are here because of the great inflation that was caused by American companies in Latin America. Aside from that, many are seeking a life away from the puppet democracies that were funded by the United States; places like El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, Nicaragua, Ecuador and Republica Dominicana, and not just Spanish-speaking countries either, but Haiti and Jamaica as well.
As different as we have been taught to look at each other by colonial society, we are in the same struggle and until we realize that, we'll be fighting for scraps from the table of a system that has kept us subservient instead of being self-determined. And that's why we have no control over when the embargo will stop in Cuba, or when the bombs will stop dropping in Vieques.
But you see, here in America the attitude that is fed to us is that outside of America there live lesser people. "Fuck them, let them fend for themselves." No, Fuck you, they are you. No matter how much you want to dye your hair blonde and put fake eyes in, or follow an anorexic standard of beauty, or no matter how many diamonds you buy from people who exploit your own brutally to get them, no matter what kind of car you drive or what kind of fancy clothes you put on, you will never be them. They're always gonna look at you as nothing but a little monkey. I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperately trying to be something I'm really not, just to fit in. And whether we want to accept it or not, that's what this culture or lack of culture is feeding us.
I want a better life for my family and for my children, but it doesn't have to be at the expense of millions of lives in my homeland. We're given the idea that if we didn't have these people to exploit then America wouldn't be rich enough to let us have these little petty material things in our lives and basic standards of living. No, that's wrong. It's the business giants and the government officials who make all the real money. We have whatever they kick down to us. My enemy is not the average white man, it's not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the street; my enemy is the white man I don't see: the people in the white house, the corporate monopoly owners, fake liberal politicians those are my enemies. The generals of the armies that are mostly conservatives those are the real Mother-Fuckers that I need to bring it to, not the poor, broke country-ass soldier that's too stupid to know shit about the way things are set up.
In fact, I have more in common with most working and middle-class white people than I do with most rich black and Latino people. As much as racism bleeds America, we need to understand that classism is the real issue. Many of us are in the same boat and it's sinking, while these bougie Mother-Fuckers ride on a luxury liner, and as long as we keep fighting over kicking people out of the little boat we're all in, we're gonna miss an opportunity to gain a better standard of living as a whole.
In other words, I don't want to escape the plantation I want to come back, free all my people, hang the Mother-Fucker that kept me there and burn the house to the god damn ground. I want to take over the encomienda and give it back to the people who work the land.
You cannot change the past but you can make the future, and anyone who tells you different is a Fucking lethargic devil. I don't look at a few token Latinos and black people in the public eye as some type of achievement for my people as a whole. Most of those successful individuals are sell-outs and house Negros.
But, I don't consider brothers a sell-out if they move out of the ghetto. Poverty has nothing to do with our people. It's not in our culture to be poor. That's only been the last 500 years of our history; look at the last 2000 years of our existence and what we brought to the world in terms of science, mathematics, agriculture and forms of government. You know the idea of a confederation of provinces where one federal government controls the states? The Europeans who came to this country stole that idea from the Iroquois LEAGUE. The idea of impeaching a ruler comes from an Aztec tradition. That's why Montezuma was stoned to death by his own people 'cause he represented the agenda of white Spaniards once he was captured, not the Aztec people who would become Mexicans.
So in conclusion, I'm not gonna vote for anybody just 'cause they black or Latino they have to truly represent the community and represent what's good for all of us proletariat.
Porque sino entonces te mando por el carajo cabron gusano hijo de puta, seramos libre pronto, viva la revolucion, VIVA LA REVOLUCION!”.
5/10
Valoración personal: IT es uno de los raperos más directos y agresivos en su estilo, algunos loops llegan a generar una repetición y gusto por el sonido. Pese a todas las debilidades señaladas, IT puede resultar una buena opción para un día que quiero oír Hip-Hop, me gusta más de lo que vale.
7/10
Puntaje general: 4.8/10
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