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Anyone else a fan? I've found a lot more people have heard of him in the last 3-6 months.

So what say you? Do you rate the socialist guerilla?

*for all those who don't know, Immortal Technique is an underground rapper who refused to sign to a large label as he would lose intellectual property rights and creative control of his songs.

Never heard of him.

Sounds like a good decision though.

Download download download!

Uh, rap? Not to my tastes. As for his career decision, I don’t care, it’s his talent, he can do what he wants with it.

Uh, rap? Not to my tastes.

Be gone.

lost my interest right about................



Immortal Technique is an underground rapper


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Anyone else a fan? I've found a lot more people have heard of him in the last 3-6 months.

So what say you? Do you rate the socialist guerilla?

*for all those who don't know, Immortal Technique is an underground rapper who refused to sign to a large label as he would lose intellectual property rights and creative control of his songs.

Then he can't be in terribly high demand, because if he's that marketable then the labels would have offered to let him keep those things in order to sign.

It's not necessarily the case that all music contracts contain such clauses.

I thought this thread was about how to reach immortality.

Boy, was I wrong.

Anyone else a fan? I've found a lot more people have heard of him in the last 3-6 months.

So what say you? Do you rate the socialist guerilla?

*for all those who don't know, Immortal Technique is an underground rapper who refused to sign to a large label as he would lose intellectual property rights and creative control of his songs.

I think he is an idiot for believing that all of t3h ebil corporations will refuse him creative control of his songs.

I think he is an idiot for believing that all of t3h ebil corporations will refuse him creative control of his songs.

I refer you to Warner-Chappell vs. Ice T, 1992.

I refer you to Warner-Chappell vs. Ice T, 1992.

Or, he could just do what Rage Against the Machine did back in the day.

Make their own first album.... sell a shed load... and then get creative control over the rest in the contract.

Or, he could just do what Rage Against the Machine did back in the day.

Make their own first album.... sell a shed load... and then get creative control over the rest in the contract.

True, but if the direction you are going creates ill-will with the label they are likely to fulfill only the letter, rather than the spirit, of the contract. Better to stick with the smaller labels who actually share some of your primary views, in my opinion.