The need came from the same place that all my music came from. I could choose to do this, or choose to do that, and this particular time around I wanted to do this. I joined with the human rights organisation Omeid International to facilitate this. The aspect of media coverage is essential. I'm obviously not gonna be able to administer the entire project, but I feel like it’s essential to be involved. "For those that have been orphaned by a conflict that's lasted for. "It’s a medical clinic and an orphanage for children that have been involved, and whose parents have been involved in the violence in Afghanistan," says a weary sounding Tech down the phone from his native Harlem. Immortal Technique, by contrast, is off to Afghanistan to build an orphanage. With the critically lauded The 3rd World mixtape just out, most artists would be touring TV stations. The heir to Dead Prez and Public Enemy's revolutionary legacy, dude bust onto the scene with the Green Lantern-helmed 'Bin Laden' four years ago and hasn't let up since. Times like this, we need a politically aware, righteously angry emcee who walks it like he talks it. Your favourite rappers keep getting outed as frauds. Politicians launch wars based on proven fabrication. Prize winning sportsmen take performance enhancing drugs. We live in an atmosphere of unprecedented mistrust.
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