An observation about Immortal Technique.

[Breezy]

For all his fans (I'm one) Anybody ever notice how often he makes analogies in his songs. It just hit me that one thing being "like" another make up about a 1/3rd of all his lyrics. Some examples.

Frontline - "I got white revolutionaries like Muslims in Chechnya","Until they **** you for millions like Paul McCartney's bitch", "My lions live inside a box like Jumanji" "Sikh ****** that'll stab you up like Indira Gandhi" "I'm like the whole library in Kemet with Annunaki genetics"

Angels and Demons - "I'm like the birth of baby Mohammed," "Bilderberg is like cancer"

Rich mans world- "I twist words like a speech impediment", "And if not then I'll fake death like Kenneth Lay", "I treat countries like the IMF, down on your knees" "Got away scott-free like El Vaticano",

The Martyr - "And realize it too late like the shooting of Huey Newton"

Black Vikings - "Back like I was locked up, putting in work "Burning through books like Nazi's in a Catholic church", "I'm cursed like Cain when he murdered his brother", "That'll make you hate the way that Allah made you to live life
Like Hindu, ****** that be bleaching their skin white"

Goonies never Die - "Little kids putting work in like at Gap and Disney",
"In the whip, high as shit like Bobby and Whitney"

Hollywood Drive-by - "Your lyrics don't hold weight
Like two-dimensional objects", "You live inside the image of an Era that's gone
Like government officials trying to justify Vietnam", "I'll leave ****** traumatized like they momma died", "Jealous bickering, industry slaves, the nerve of you Like a child prostitute born into a life of servitude", "War with the system like the streets of Oaxaca"

Watchout - "They push pop music like a religion", "***** you can't overthrow me like the island of Cuba", "******'ll never find your body, like the bitch in Aruba", "With secret deals like the Nazis and IBM" "I'll kill you and take your land like an Israeli expansion".

[Nanners]

whoa immortal technique uses analogies? i dont think anybody ever noticed that.

[Breezy]

It's not THAT he uses them. It's how often that I noticed.

[plowking]

What I've noticed is that he isn't that great at rapping and he can't stay on beat. Terrible flow.

[zoom17]

What I've noticed is that he isn't that great at rapping and he can't stay on beat. Terrible flow.

Yet drake is legit:roll:

[NBAplayoffs2001]

I liked him until I found one line of his lyrics in a song that was completely inaccurate and offended me.

[plowking]

Yet drake is legit:roll:

Drake>Immortal Technique.

Drake can stay on beat, has a great flow, decent lyrics.

You probably hate him because hes "soft' right? Weren't Mobb Deep a bunch of ballerinas? How about 2Pac being a back up dancer at one point? They're real though, right?

[NBAplayoffs2001]

Drake>Immortal Technique.

Drake can stay on beat, has a great flow, decent lyrics.

You probably hate him because hes "soft' right? Weren't Mobb Deep a bunch of ballerinas? How about 2Pac being a back up dancer at one point? They're real though, right?

Any decent 90s rapper > both of them.

[plowking]

Any decent 90s rapper > both of them.

That's a stupid sentence.

Drake is a better rapper than a lot of 90's rappers. Immortal Technique is a rapper people like because he made one good song that backpack rap fans love to hype; Dance with the Devil.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

That's a stupid sentence.

Drake is a better rapper than a lot of 90's rappers. Immortal Technique is a rapper people like because he made one good song that backpack rap fans love to hype; Dance with the Devil.

If I saw you as a kid on Degrassi getting shot by a nerdy white kid in the show, I ain't gonna take your rapping career serious. Just opinionated bro

[plowking]

If I saw you as a kid on Degrassi getting shot by a nerdy white kid in the show, I ain't gonna take your rapping career serious. Just opinionated bro

I'm guessing you like 2pac despite him doing the Humpty Dumpty dance? How about Mobb Deep and their tap dancing selves?

[Bless Mathews]

When he inhales to catch his breath between raps, he makes a wheezing, high pitch sound.

Trip on dat.

[RidonKs]

similes. most of hip hop lyrics and rock lyrics especially is an analogy in some way; which is nothing more than a comparison.

immortal technique has all the vernacular in the world but yeah, he's not very creative in his structure. which is why he overuses "like"

[PHX_Phan]

That's a stupid sentence.

Drake is a better rapper than a lot of 90's rappers. Immortal Technique is a rapper people like because he made one good song that backpack rap fans love to hype; Dance with the Devil.

I get what you're saying, but is hype really the term you want to use to downplay Technique and praise Drake? :roll:

[ILLsmak]

similes. most of hip hop lyrics and rock lyrics especially is an analogy in some way; which is nothing more than a comparison.

immortal technique has all the vernacular in the world but yeah, he's not very creative in his structure. which is why he overuses "like"

The problem I have with similes is their format. You can do a simile without saying like. You're right about rap and also a lot of poetry. In rap it's more of a punch line where as in poetry it's an image.

Like that Redman song I posted, I like multidimensional similes like "get your hollering like marvin gaye/ when his father shot him in the chest." it's like ooo.

I can't really find an impressive simile in writing, though. Most of them are just like heh or cool. Images. the morning looks like...

-Smak