The concept behind the album coming is built around relating the streets here in the US to those that are around the world. To illustrate that no matter what we face here our native post-colonial lands are suffering 1000 times worse. To create more communication between this country and Latin America and Africa, Eastern Europe, South East Asia, all those lands that were under European or American rule less than 20 years ago in some places. For far too long we have been separated by petty rivalries and the unfathomably counterproductive superiority complexes that divide our people. No matter how difficult the conditions of our lives are in this nation they are still incomparable to those of the people who we were once a part of overseas or right across the border. Revolution is about a constant movement. Instead of retreating I choose to advance. I chose to build my alliances stronger with my peoples overseas and here in this nation, to show them that this album/mixtape has something for everyone. In style of music as well as the struggle.
The struggle that is playing itself out between the small resistance left that fights for the culture and soul of Hip Hop is what I see around the world, it opened my eyes to that fact that we are not outnumbered, just not organized as much as we should be. I look forward to building with more people from Africa, South America, Central America, this doesn't mean that I can sit here and do songs with everyone that hits me up because realistically it's impossible for me to live my life and work on my Revolutionary projects and help everyone else with their career but I will work with a few and I will reach out to people across the world to support this project. The album/mixtape addresses not just local issues but how they are related to our own lives here in the US. We cannot afford to lose that connection to the rest of the world, especially in this day and age where the ability to reach across the world is in our hands. Our Revolution must be spread all over the world.
The single is receiving good reviews so far, you all should add your own.
http://evolvingmusic. wordpress. com/2008/05/15/first-listen-immortal-technique-the-3rd-world
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http://blog. qn5. com/2008/general/music-immortal-technique-the-3rd-world
I know there is some confusion about whether this was The Middle Passage or Revolutionary Vol.3, it is not. I was originally working on these album's which will still be released but Dj Green Lantern and Southpaw just kept hitting me with songs and I am a writer by nature as much as I am a soldier I kept writing. So much so that I eventually had to compile these songs that I felt could not just be lost even though they didn't fit the conceptuality of Revolutionary Vol.3. They were their own entity, they tested my flow and breathe control which I refined, my voice slightly raspy because I would come home from tour and jump right in the studio but I'm a grown man now and naturally I can't sound like I did on Vol.1 or even most of Vol.2. This desire to write led me to want to expand that horizon for other people… and so I designed a writing contest and my staff helped me to facilitate a way to putting it out there to people. (Please check the blog on my page for more details.) The 3rd World Writing Contest is now on my page, so anyone that is in high school please check it out and join us.
Con Amor de Revolucion,
Immortal
Technique