[ti:That's What It Is]
[ar:Immortal Technique]
[al:The 3rd World (Bonus Edition)]
[00:00.02]Immortal Technique - That's What It Is
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[00:06.20]Ok... let's go... talk to em'... holler
[00:14.00]Don't you get tired of hearing niggas say that shit?... all the time?
[00:17.84]Why can't you shut the fuck up and rhyme nigga?!
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[00:21.37]Yeah... yeah... used to run around getting my fight in the streets on
[00:24.52]Back in the day before Harlem had a green zone
[00:27.29]What good is a good education with no direction?
[00:29.79]Like the right to vote with no one to vote for in an election
[00:32.66]Like a gun with no bullets in the clip for protection
[00:35.32]Like the crowd packed in the front without the midsection
[00:38.02]Used to live robbing and stealing and being reckless
[00:40.58]It took time for my mind to put the ghetto in perspective
[00:43.45]I used to live in the back, of a holding van
[00:46.13]Used to be offbeat, like the white girls' shoulder dance
[00:48.81]I wrote rhymes a cappella, no beat, behind bars
[00:51.49]Shed blood to make it, like the story behind scars
[00:54.11]I used to be a battle champion, in the meanwhile
[00:56.78]Before some of you little fuckers learned to freestyle
[00:59.74]Prematurely senile, underground prima donnas
[01:02.23]I was Oliver North during Iran Contra
[01:05.08]Cause I, never snitched, and that's backed by evidence
[01:07.65]I learned it by watching you, don't ever forget it bitch
[01:10.23]Cause everybody knows how the government do
[01:12.34]They never snitch on themselves, but they want you to snitch on YOU
[01:15.79]Evolution from Australopithecus
[01:18.58]Primitive commercial shit to hard-core lyricist
[01:21.14]Your wax is useless
[01:22.50]Rappers are dropping like Icarus
[01:23.67]Technological revolution... nigga picture this
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[01:29.61](motherfucka what?)
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[01:36.49]Yeah... I told you what it was, but this is what it is now
[01:39.96]Lyrical bullets, packed to the top of the clip now
[01:42.72]Treat it like a robbery, I'm shutting this shit down
[01:45.24]Fellas put your hands up and the all the women strip down
[01:48.10]That's not misogynist, you ostriches, cause I could just, apocalypse
[01:51.10]Talk politics to the populace
[01:53.15]Or challenge what the market is
[01:55.87]With militant caucuses
[01:57.24]That'll smash the spirit of Hip Hop out the sarcophagus
[01:58.97]This is the curse of Tutankhamen, I bring the drama on
[02:01.43]I'm sinful, I eat you, broad daylight on Ramadan
[02:04.28]Hip Hop, reparations, now we taking back Delucci
[02:07.05]Don't tell me you spent it on coke, like Danny Bonaduce
[02:09.80]We're tired of being on the outside, looking in
[02:12.29]Wondering what the fuck Hip Hop would've been
[02:15.02]This is what it is, as opposed to what it used to be
[02:17.59]And this is your corporate tax ID eulogy
[02:20.41]Dominant speech is the new breed, that won't let you breath
[02:23.30]I'll make you die for what I believe
[02:25.32]So we got nothing in common
[02:26.98]There ain't no comparison
[02:28.26]You got beef with niggas, I got beef with Aryans
[02:31.19]White power Nazi European Americans
[02:33.84]Rapid Poverty pimps, and fake vegetarians
[02:36.56]The resurrection, ripping a ball through the record (wrecking?) section
[02:39.36]Flight connection to the gentry board of all guerrilla lessons
[02:42.35]Fuck a middle man distributor, I got a choice now
[02:44.70]This ain't Volume 1., I got a grown man's voice now
[02:47.22]Toured the country four times over, I'm older and wiser
[02:50.20]Poisonous words, you'll find strychnine in my saliva
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[02:53.94](motherfucka what?... Bring it to 'em raw)
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[03:04.17]I told you what it was, but this is what it is now
[03:06.29]50 caliber bullets, I don't need a clip now
[03:08.78]Fuck your private jet nigga we shooting the shit down
[03:11.51]Bomb wall street and make the stock market dip down
[03:14.17]I told you what it was, but this is what it is now
[03:17.00]you the shit nigga, I don't care about shit now
[03:19.65]I play the role of Abraham, idols get ripped down
[03:22.33]Melt the ice caps, and make all of this shit brown
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[03:25.66](No one out there can fuck with me)
[03:28.03](motherfucka what?)
[03:30.68](I speak that real shit)
[03:33.53](to smash the airwaves)
[03:36.16](I don't want to tell you motherfuckers again)
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[03:49.02]Immortal Technique - That's What It Is
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