Immortal Technique - L.I.V.E

Yo the world look crazy from up here man,
Everybody listening now right?

I'm Live? I'm on the air? I'm live? hmm...

I'ma just lay it down man that's what it is (Harlem/G.I. Joe)

From New York to the slums of L.A.
This economy don't guarantee pay,
Legally bleeding polluted air that we breethin'
Our people on the block plottin and schemin'
This country produces, backward bastards
Even got Indian kids thinkin' they fascists
Media only reports after it crashes
Cut classes to watch the ignorance of the masses
And then they blame movies and video games
When the actions of a nation influence our brain
They call our generation insane
For the simple fact that we express our pain
A hypocritical title, but since anti depressants make me suicidal
I guess anything goes, you can advertise cancer,
They'll never learn, as long as you got the right corporate law firm,
But I burn systems, turn players to burn victims
Why did you even pick them?
I sick 'em with the sickness when I spit this
That you come with last rights in the witness
Immortal I speak old school truth with the quickness.

Whatchu gon' say to the world when you Live?
You can't keep smokeless fire bottled inside,
Everyone in the world claimin' they right,
But if they put it on their life they probably die.

They asked me to tone it down 'cause this for the kids
Did some have realer life than you ever lived?
If you doubt me, go ahead look in my eyes
And ima show you truth, when its reflecting alive
Faster, smarter, stronger, Ima hurt you
Forget rap, the whole culture going commercial
Body snatcher industry, that'll convert you
People with no altar, that'll pervert you
Artists worst than fake gangsters, they no good
Blame publicists, and then come to the hood
Ask 'em to help the ghetto, see them run
Drive through it quicker than O.J. or Scott Peterson
I complete the contest, Technique is conquest
Violent aggression, with the aura of calmness
I speak from the heart, rip speakers apart
I'm the dude that'll rip you, right off the peak of the charts
The art of my life, how could you ever criticize?
Something that you never civilized?
Sit on the side, before I reach deep down and spit on your pride
'Cause I'm talkin' to the world on the air and I'm LIVE

Whatchu gon' say to the world when you Live?
You can't keep smokeless fire bottled inside,
Everyone in the world claimin' they right,
But if they put it on their life they probably die.

(Gi Joe)

Shameless,
Riffs,
Immortal Technique,
Harlem,
Southpaw

Whatchu going to say to the world when you Live?
You can't keep smokeless fire bottled inside
Everyone in the world claimin' they right
But if they put it on their life they probaby die...