Immortal Technique - Harlem Streets (Prod by Southpaw) (Lyrics)

Track 4 from "Revolutionary Vol. 2"

Revolutionary Vol. 2 is the second album released by rapper Immortal Technique and is a follow-up to his debut album, Revolutionary Vol. 1.

In spite of the fact that it was released independent of major studio support, it made record sales, fueling its revolutionary concept. All of the CDs displayed Immortal Technique's phone number. It was endorsed by Mumia Abu-Jamal, who introduces the album and also provides a speech about hip hop's relationship to Homeland security. Revolutionary Vol. 2 attacks the United States government, especially the Bush Administration. Immortal Technique suggests that there is a conspiracy that serves to divert and imprison blacks and Latinos, if not all of the proletariat. In an attempt to reveal the hypocrisy of American jingoism, he makes reference to Project MKULTRA, the Patriot Act, Acid rain, American companies with Nazi ties, the Catholic Church's platform of non-involvement during the The Holocaust, and the Church calling Muhammad a "terrorist" amongst many other accusations.

[Verse 1]
Yeah.... Harlem streets stay flooded in white powder
Like those mother fuckers runnin' away from the twin towers
Gun shots rock the earth like a meteor shower
Bowling For Columbine, fair, giving the media power
Innocence devoured like a chicken spot snack box
Government cocain cooked into ghetto crack rock
Corrupt cops false testimony at your arraignment
Check to check, constant struggle to make the payments
Working your whole life wondering where the day went
The subway stays pakced like a multi-cultural slave ship
It's rush hour, 2:30 to 8, non stoppin'
And people coming home after corporate share croppin
And fuck flossin, mothers are trying to feed children
But gentrification is kicking them out of their building
A generation of babies born without health care
Families homeless, thrown the fuck off of the welfare

[Hook]
Homicide Harldem, BLAOW!, what's the problem?
Homicide Harldem, BLAOW!, what's the problem?
Homicide Harldem, BLAOW!, what's the problem?
Homicide Harldem, BLAOW!, what's the problem?

[Verse 2]
It's like Cambodia the killing fields uptown
We live in distress and hang the flag upside down
The sound of conservative politicians on television
People in the hood are blind so they tell us to listen
They vote for us to go to war instantly
But none of their kids serving the infantry
The odds are stacked against us like a casino
Think about it, most of the army is black and latino
And if you can't acknowledge the reality of my words
You just another stupid mother fucker out on the curb
Trying to escape from the ghetto with your ignorant ways
But you can't read history at an illiterate stage
And you can't raise a family on minimum wage
Why the fuck you think most of us are locked in a cage
I give niggaz the truth, cause they pride is indigent
You better off rich and guilty than poor and innocent
But I'm sick of feeling impotent watching the world burn
In the era of apocalypse waiting my turn
I'm a Harlem nigga that's concerned with the future
And if your in my way it'd be an honor to shoot ya
Up root ya with the evil that grows in my people
Making them deceitful, cannibalistic and lethal
But I see through the mentality implanted in us
And I educate my fam about who we should trust

[Hook]
Homicide Harldem, BLAOW!, what's the problem?
Homicide Harldem, BLAOW!, what's the problem?
Homicide Harldem, BLAOW!, what's the problem?
Homicide Harldem, BLAOW!, what's the problem?

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Music

Tags:

• Immortal
• Technique
• Harlem
• Streets
• Prod
• by
• Southpaw

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[MeSoHorny213]

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[pimpster122]

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[KilluminatiCT44]

So dope!

[frenkiebeats]

You are one of the dumbest people who ever commented under a immortal technique video. hahahahah which army are you talking about? it's no secret that it's filled with black and latinos. It was the same thing in WO II. Who you think were the pour, powerless people who were used. But not one movie on WO II shows a truthfull picture. Where are the black american soldiers in one bridge to far or schindler's list?

[myniakal333]

@hortontay suck my dick dumbass fucking racist bitch

[ktkification]

@hortontay nah,, your incorrect little man,, ive never heard him say anything racist..

[Iripintoit]

@hortontay and how the FUCK is he racist........... you are truly fucking retarded

[Iripintoit]

@hortontay Fuck you fagget IT is smarter than your ass will ever be. He speaks the truth you fucking fagget but your to blind to realize that you fucking retard

[hortontay]

wow the rappers so retarded. 1. most of the armys white, not black and latino... 2. this morans talking about america but yet lives here... this guys a true racist scum.