3rd World
2008 · Koch · Lima, Peru
- Artist
- Immortal Technique
- Title
- 3rd World
- Release
- The 3rd World
- Year
- 2008
- Label
- Koch
- Format
- Mixtape
- Language
- English
- Country
- Lima, Peru
- Genre
- Hip Hop · East Coast Hip Hop · Political Hip Hop
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
"The 3rd World" "I’m from where the gold and diamonds are ripped from the earth / Right next to the slave castles where the water is cursed / From where police brutality is not half as nice / It makes the hood in America look like paradise / Compared to the AIDS-infested Caribbean slum / African streets where the passport's an American gun / From where they massacre people and try to keep it quiet / And spend the next 25 years tryin' to deny it / I’m from where they cut your hands off if you make a fist / And niggas grow coca, 'cause the job market doesn’t exist / Except slave labor, modern-day company store / And peacekeepers don’t ever ever ever come here no more / From where the bombs that they used to drop on Vietnam / Still has children born deformed, eight months before they gone"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Rap / Hip Hop Songs
East Coast Hip Hop / Political Hip Hop artist, born Felipe Coronel on 19 February 1978 in Lima, Peru. His family moved to New York in 1980, and he is currently based in Manhattan, New York, USA. Several of his songs referenced the Vietnam War: "Obnoxious" (2003), "The 3rd World" (2008), "Hollywood Drive By" (2008), and "In the Trenches" (2011).This mixtape (Koch Records) featured two references to the Vietnam War. Firstly, the song "Hollywood Drive By", which used Vietnam as a comparison for alleged government lies: "like government officials trying to justify Vietnam". Secondly, the song "The 3rd World" - an outdated term for developing countries, that originated during the Cold War in the 1950s - the artist discussed his home area, describing it as being worse than the US: "from where police brutality is not half as nice, it makes the hood in America look like paradise". He used Vietnam as a metaphor for a war zone: "from where the bombs that they used to drop on Vietnam".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
About the artist
East Coast Hip Hop / Political Hip Hop artist, born Felipe Coronel on 19 February 1978 in Lima, Peru. His family moved to New York in 1980, and he is currently based in Manhattan, New York, USA.