[ti:Harlem Renaissance]
[ar:Immortal Technique]
[al:The 3rd World]
[00:00.02]Immortal Technique - Harlem Renaissance
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[00:02.87]"Let me welcome both of you
[00:03.47]uh, to the show this morning to talk about what I consider
[00:05.63]to be a very very important topic, uh, the Harlem Renaissance
[00:08.71]But before we get into that..."
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[00:10.62]Immortal Technique:
[00:11.07]Yeah, Harlem once was red line district rated (uhh)
[00:13.25]Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David
[00:15.73]And you wonder why, people don't own they homes (why?)
[00:18.53]Cause the racist bank wouldn't fuckin mortgage a loan
[00:20.90]Harlem once was red line district rated (uhh)
[00:23.91]Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David
[00:26.32]And you wonder why, people don't own they homes (why?)
[00:28.91]Cause the racist bank wouldn't fuckin mortgage a loan {WAKE UP!}
[00:31.51]
[00:31.99]Harlem once was red line district rated (uhh)
[00:34.43]Designated ghetto like the yellow star of David
[00:36.92]And you wonder why, people don't own they homes (why?)
[00:39.70]Cause the racist bank wouldn't fuckin mortgage a loan
[00:42.09]Until after the invasion of, gentrification
[00:44.91]Eminent domain intimidation, that's not negotiation
[00:47.71]And it's frustratin to look at, every day
[00:50.52]Like watchin a porno, on 56-K
[00:53.25]Biohazard labs instead of store rooms
[00:55.75]What's next motherfucker, projects as dorm rooms?
[00:58.39]You ain't fool nobody in this community duke
[01:01.17]With your little fake Manhattanville community group
[01:03.91]Ivy league, real estate firms are corrupt
[01:06.59]I lay siege to your castle like the Moors in Europe
[01:09.13]They treat street vendors like criminal riff-raff
[01:11.52]While politicians get the corporate kickbacks (snakes)
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[01:14.64]Chorus: Immortal Technique
[01:15.16]Harlem Renaissance, a revolution betrayed
[01:17.03]Modern day slaves thinkin that the ghetto is saved
[01:19.57]'Til they start deportin people off the property
[01:22.07]Ethnically cleansin the hood, economically
[01:24.65]They wanna kill the real Harlem Renaissance
[01:27.31]Tryin to put the Virgin Mary through a early menopause
[01:29.71]The savior is a metaphor for how we set it off
[01:32.56]Guerrilla war against the re-zoning predators
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[01:35.60]Immortal Technique:
[01:36.15]When I speak about Harlem, I speak to the world
[01:38.06]The little Afghan boy, and the Bosnian girl
[01:40.70]The African in Sudan, the people of Kurdistan
[01:43.27]The third world American, indigenous man
[01:46.07]Palestinians, Washington Heights, Dominicans
[01:49.17]Displaced New Orleans citizens
[01:50.80]Beachfront Brazilian favelas that you livin in
[01:53.51]The hood is prime real estate, they want back in again (fuck outta here)
[01:56.99]I didn't write this to talk shit, I say it because
[01:59.23]some of y'all forgot what the Harlem Renaissance was
[02:01.95]We had revolution, music and artisans
[02:04.33]But the movement was still fucked up like Parkinson's
[02:06.89]Cause while we were givin birth to the culture we love
[02:09.65]Prejudice, kept our own people out of the club
[02:12.31]Only colored celebrities in the party (fake nigga!)
[02:15.28]And left us a legacy of false superiority
[02:17.36]W.E.B. Du Bois versus Marcus Garvey
[02:20.23]And we ended up, sellin out to everybody
[02:22.51]The Dutch {?} and the John Gotti's
[02:25.27]Banksters, modern day gangsters, immobile army
[02:28.13]They wanna move us all out the N.Y.C.
[02:30.23]Like they did to the Jews with the Alhambra decree
[02:33.10]So support your own businesses and do the knowledge
[02:35.80]Cause the real Harlem Renaissance is economic (yeah)
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[02:39.08]Chorus: Immortal Technique
[02:39.61]Harlem Renaissance, a revolution betrayed
[02:41.48]Modern day slaves thinkin that the ghetto is saved
[02:44.05]'Til they start deportin people off the property
[02:46.58]Ethnically cleansin the hood, economically
[02:49.14]They wanna kill the real Harlem Renaissance
[02:52.08]Tryin to put the Virgin Mary through a early menopause
[02:54.64]The savior is a metaphor for how we set it off
[02:57.12]Guerrilla war against the re-zoning predators
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[03:00.51]{"Green Lantern... The Evil Genius!"}
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[03:02.12]"When they were saying it is the renaissance, of Harlem
[03:05.11]they didn't mean, that we had stake in that
[03:09.22]They meant to say that they could make money out of us"
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[03:15.00]"They are coming in with all kind of prejudices
[03:17.74]In Brooklyn they're doing the same thing
[03:20.28]In, um, Queens they're doing the same thing; the Bronx
[03:24.79]There's hardly any place which is affordable
[03:28.28]I mean these people are putting up condominiums
[03:30.72]which start from a million dollars
[03:32.43]How many people in this community make that kind of money?
[03:36.71]How many people have that kind of money?"
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[03:40.37]"People of Harlem, they are the natural allies of the oppressed people
[03:46.06]of the world, whether the struggle is in Panama, in Africa, Cuba"
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[03:53.59]"We spend money with the wrong people
[03:55.91]We are looking for love, with people who don't love us
[03:58.99]What's wrong with us loving each other
[04:01.28]and making sure that we are protected?"
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