Immortal Technique - Peruvian Cocaine

Peruvian Cocaine is a political song about drug production, importation, distribution and coruption, over a cut which featured prominently in Scarface during Tony Montana's trip to Bolivia.



Produced by Southpaw, Peruvian Cocaine comes off the 2003 album, Revolutionary Vol. 2, by Afro-Peruvian MC, Immortal Technique.




Immortal Technique is an underground MC and political activist. Through his music he concentrates on the discussion of politics, poverty, religion, social class and racism.



True to his beliefs, Immortal Technique remains unsigned, despite being offered a deal with at least one major record label. He released his first album Revolutionary Vol. 1 without record label backing or distribution, choosing instead to finance it himself using money earned from winning rap battles. He printed around 2,500 and managed to sell 2,400 copies.



After the release of Revolutionary Vol.1, Immortal Technique featured in the Source in November 2002, as the month's featured "Unsigned Hype", which highlights artists that are not signed to a record label.



With the release of Revoltuionary Vol 2. the next year, and still independent, Immortal Technique received the "Hip Hop Quotable" in the Source in September 2003, for the song Industrial Revolution and became the only MC to have a "Hip Hop Quotable" while being unsigned.

Peruvian Cocaine features, Pumpkinhead, Diabolic, Tonedeff, Poison Pen, Loucipher, and C-Rayz Walz.