Immortal Technique has lashed out at the music industry for its approach to stopping illegal downloads. The political MC explained that he’d rather have fans download his music illegally on the Internet than have record executives accusing the youth of stealing, when they’re really the biggest crooks of them all.
“You could type my name, no ebonics, Immortal, live forever, Technique, get on the internet and just steal all my music off of it, because I really don’t care about that,” he told Forbez DVD. “I’ve had lots of arguments with executives about that, and I think that they have a lot of audacity accusing children of stealing music when they’ve been robbing artists for years.“
For Tech, he looks at the industry and sees nothing but corruption. “Even now, it’s come up that they were taking royalties under the guise of licensing for past capital. It’s just an embarrassment for them to be using the word 'steal' when realistically speaking, they’re the biggest thieves and gangstas in this entire business,” he continued. “They make everybody who rhymes about doing gangsta shit look pathetic in terms of the amount of money that they’ve stolen and the amount of culture that they’ve robbed of our people.”
The outspoken rapper suggested that instead of fingering listeners for taking music, the industry needs to reevaluate its strategy. “To me, I don’t quantify success in just record sales or YouTube views or Twitter friends. If you have 12 million friends on Twitter but you can only sell 100,000 units, there’s something wrong with you. That means that those statistics really need to be analyzed and looked at. So for me, I say yo, go steal all my music if you like what I talk about. You don’t have to agree with everything but if you feel and understand that I’m being genuine, come to a show, check it out for yourself, support us, buy a shirt online, but a CD.”
The man's an idiot, making himself out like some musical Robin Hood. This douchebag is the "hipster" of rap, he'll go against any authority figure. Record labels shouldn't combat music theft? I know he's a commie pussy, but that's retarded. If I owned a label, I'd do all I could to combat the theft of my product, it's common business sense. IT can go build a timemachine and live in the USSR if he thinks it's so awesome.
And he tries to justify all this by saying labels rip off artists? No one forced them to sign their bad contracts, it's a free country. Maye they should have read their contracts before signing them? When I rented an apartment, I read the hell out of the contract and made them change stuff before signing. I had a buddy do the same in the same complex. The landlord tried to screw him over. Guess what? He couldn't cuz my dude had a CONTRACT. He told the landlord he'd sue if he tried to make him pay (his apartment got broken into, and vandalized) for damages. The landlord dropped it, cuz in america we have a thing called law.
^One of the most punchable faces I've ever seen.
Seriously, there's TONS of rappers who say stupid political/anti establishment shit, but no one is as pervasively annoying as IT.
