Immortal Technique - Caught In A Hustle Lyrics
[Verse 1]
They say the odds against me, are crooked and impossible
Like I was born with a hole in my heart is an obstacle
I was left to die by the doctors, in the Children's Hospital
But I never lose hope, success is psychological
Shaping the nation, like the blueprint of a mason
While Shawshank record deals get you raped on occasion
So I'm focused on my economic situation
I'm like the little kids on TV that dig through the trash
I hustle regardless of the way you talk shit and laugh
A lot of niggaz drop science but they dont know the math
Because their mind is narrower than the righteous path
It's funny how on the block niggaz will kill you for cash
But never raise the gun and cry out "Freedom at last"
The cold war is over but the world is still gettin colder
I would like to raise my children to grow to be soldiers
But then the general, would decide when their life would be over
So I work hard until my personality split
Like the black panthers, into the bloods and the crips
They said I would never be shit, but now I sit and reminice
Like Yeshua ben Yusef flippin through Genesis
Ignorance is venemous, and it murders the soul
Spreading like a virus running rampant, but out of control
[Hook]
So if I should ever fall and get caught in a hustle
Let them know that I died while I fought in a struggle
From the hoodrats to the rich kids lost in a bubble
Spray painting on the streets and at the subway tunnels
Write it down and remember that we never gave in
The mind of a child is where the revolution begins
So if the solution has never been to look in yourself
How is it that you expect to find it anywhere else
[Verse 2]
Immortal Technique in the streets, back on the hustle
cause three strikes will get you life for stuffin cracks in a duffle
Upstate behind steel gates intact in the scuffle
Razor blades stuck on the side of pencils, hacked to your muscle
But the emptiness is what bleeds you to death when it cuts you
And its the lawyers, not the inmates scheming to fuck you
Trying to fight the system from inside, eventually corrupts you
But thats what you get when you put a corporation above you
And it's the people that love you that seem to hurt you the most
Sometimes when they die you find yourself cursing their ghost
But you make success, nobody delivers your fate
Sometimes you give and you take
Since prehistoric vertibrates, crawled out of the lakes
And thats the truth about life
Or to do it to ghetto and your car, rims, and your ice
Because even though we survived through the struggle that made us
We still look at ourselves through the eyes of people that hate us
But I'm going to make it regardless of the trumped up charges
And semi-automatic barrages, that empty the cartridge
Post-traumatically scar kids that try to be brave
Because niggaz backstab each other just to try to get paid
Turn cannibal like nights during the crusades
Afraid of responsibility; addicted to greed
Beating their girls purposefully losing a seed
As if we were bound to the destiny we used to recieve
[Hook]
I used to wonder (I used to wonder) about people who don't believe in themselves
But then I saw the way that they portrayed us to everyone else
That cursed us, then only see the worst in ourselves
blind to the fact the whole time we were hurting ourselves
I used to wonder (I used to wonder) about people who don't believe in themselves
But then I saw the way that they portrayed us to everyone else
That cursed us, then only see the worst in ourselves
blind to the fact the whole time we were hurting ourselves
I used to wonder [echo]
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Immortal Technique Caught In A Hustle Comments
listened on mushrooms and was one of the deepest moments of my life
Freedom at last
2020 anyone?
Voice/FingerPrints/Face Dont Change#Hot97NYC!No ID Social Program!Remember Banks were Frozen!Back Door Deal/Geo Politics an Motherfucker Im Down wit G-Unit not shady#Statue Rap!#Female Fans! #PowerToKnowDifference!#PersonalBottomLine #50WhenIComeBack
Ice cube and immortal technique my favorite.
"trumped up charges" its almost like he was predicting the future (president trump possible impeachment)
I cry every time I listen to this
Tech is been the greatest since 02 nothing has changed almost 20 yrs later.
I Wrote This While I Was Highhh On Drugs Actually. 'PEACE BITCH'. MARQUESE THEATRE ESQ Q '9' NIGGA.
Oiiii!!! 🙏👏🔥🔥
2020 people keep ya head up and heart strong x
Quit my job yesterday after having worked 11 years there. Started to kill me inside not doing what I came here to do. Knew what it was for years, but waited until now to act on it. Psychosis almost killed me, sleeping in city woods while maintaining dayjob was rough, but I saved enough to do this. And I'm a nobody, healer-in-training.
My message to you is, you can do it too. Believe in yourself, only you can do that.
1 of the best rappers to ever step foot in the game.
Greetings from THE BRIDE OF JESUS CHRIST 🌟✝️✨
The Christ revealed through the EYES OF A CHILD. Brain damaged causes this mind.
Warriors, Angels of God are many.
Speak, sing truth we do
Love and Light shine bright 💖 through THESE END TIMES.
CHEERS 🤳🔥🙏
BEE 🕊️🌈🐝
Starting the Decade off correct with this.
Word up!
2020 Goin Hard 💯🔥🙏
Glass in the heart
Somebody needs to put this song on Spotify
It is on Spotify! The name of the song is actually “Caught in THE hustle” should help you find it!! 😀
Damn most underrated mc of all time man... You deserve so much more the goat 🐐🐐🐐
Going into 2020 listening to this
this song fuckin speaks to me
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Caught in the Hustle
Immortal Technique
Released as an Itunes bonus track for Revolutionary Vol. 1. Is also used in the movie soundtrack… read more »
CAUGHT IN THE HUSTLE LYRICS
[Verse 1]
They say the odds against me are crooked and impossible
Like I was born with a hole in my heart as an obstacle
I was left to die by the doctors in the Children's Hospital
But I never lose hope, success is psychological
The world is volatile and the street is my education
Shapin' the nation, like the blueprint of a Mason
While Shawshank record deals get you raped on occasion
So I'm focused on my economic situation
I'm like the little kids on TV that dig through the trash
I hustle regardless of the way you talk shit and laugh
A lot of niggas drop science, but they don't know the math
Because their mind is narrower than the righteous path
It's funny how on the block niggas will kill you for cash
But never raise the gun and cry out, "Freedom at last!"
The cold war is over, but the world is still gettin' colder
Atlas walkin' through the projects, with the hood on my shoulders
I would like to raise my children to grow to be soldiers
But then a general will decide when their life would be over
So I work hard until my personality's split
Like the Black Panthers, into the Bloods and the Crips
They said I would never be shit, but now I sit and reminisce
Like Yeshua ben Yusef flippin' through Genesis
Ignorance is venomous, and it murders the soul
Spreadin' like a virus, runnin' rampant, out of control
[Hook]
So if I should ever fall and get caught in the hustle
Let them know that I died while I fought in a struggle
From the hoodrats to the rich kids lost in a bubble
Spray paintin' on the streets and at the subway tunnels
Write it down and remember that we never gave in
The mind of a child is where the revolution begins
So if the solution has never been to look in yourself
How is it that you expect to find it anywhere else?
[Verse 2]
Immortal Technique in the streets, back on the hustle
‘Cause three strikes will get you life for stuffin' cracks in a duffle
Upstate, behind steel gates, attacked in a scuffle
Razor blades stuck on the side of pencils
Hacked through your muscle
But the emptiness is what bleeds you to death when it cuts you
And it's the lawyers, not the inmates, schemin' to fuck you
Tryna fight the system from inside eventually corrupts you
But that's what you get when you put a corporation above you
And it's the people that love you that seem to hurt you the most
Sometimes when they die, you find yourself cursin' their ghost
But you make success, nobody delivers your fate
Sometimes you give and you take
Since prehistoric vertebrates crawled out of the lakes
And that's the truth about life
Or to do it to ghetto and your car, rims, and your ice
Because even though we survived
Through the struggle that made us
We still look at ourselves through the eyes of people that hate us
But I'm going to make it regardless of the trumped up charges
And semi-automatic barrages that empty the cartridge
Post-traumatically scarred kids that try to be brave
Because niggas backstab each other just to try to get paid
Turn cannibal, like knights during the crusades
Afraid of responsibility, addicted to greed
Beatin' their girl, purposefully losin' a seed
As if we were bound to the destiny we used to receive
[Hook]
So if I should ever fall and get caught in the hustle
Let them know that I died while I fought in a struggle
From the hoodrats to the rich kids lost in a bubble
Spray paintin' on the streets and at the subway tunnels
Write it down and remember that we never gave in
The mind of a child is where the revolution begins
So if the solution has never been to look in yourself
How is it that you expect to find it anywhere else?
[Bridge/Outro]
I used to wonder about people who don't believe in themselves
But then I saw the way they portrayed us to everyone else
They cursed us to only see the worst in ourselves
Blind to the fact the whole time we were hurtin' ourselves
I used to wonder about people who don't believe in themselves
But then I saw the way they portrayed us to everyone else
They cursed us to only see the worst in ourselves
Blind to the fact the whole time we were hurtin' ourselves
I used to wonder… {*echo*}
This music is timeless all you asking if we watching the answer is
YES
Dont you guys see the views keep growing, 3030 and Ill still come back to it. You guys need help if Likes is all you really seek
Shaping a nation.,
Like a bleu print of a mason!
Back in the day, this album started the fire in me
To me this song explains how ideals can force you back to intuitive nature.
IT= gifted af
Damn first time hearing this hit hard
Who the fuck are we when always give up on each other????!!!!
Why he’s not a god right now
They said I'd never be shit, so I sit and reminisce like yehushua Ben yosef, flipping through Genesis,
Fulling down the stairs has got me in laughter so much happen today it's been a while since my Day was this busy so much people I can't stop thinking about wonder woman it was jokes big smile
He should get poet laureate when he says freedom at last he means it when some one has free will and the choice between life and death and he explains how this country and life try's to take every thing from you and how to keep your will and how powerful the individual is "but that's how you feel when you put a corporation above you" "we still look through the eyes of people that hate us " deep yo
I can’t find this on Spotify :(
The majority of people who walk through this world, walk around with their heads in the clouds. Only a few, look at things, and question themselves, why or how, things are the way they're, what's the true purpose and meaning behind that? A bunch of rats chasing that moldy stale crusty ass GOVERNMENT CHEESE B.S. Ask yourselves, "if your peacefully minding your own business, eating an apple, sitting on a park bench enjoying the gorgeous day, and another man, came up and said, "YO BITCH, WHO THE F SAID YOU COULD SIT ON MY BENCH, IN MY PARK, ON MY BEAUTIFUL DAY,,,, EATING MY FN APPLE??,,,, HUH???, GIVE ME MY FN APPLE, (AS HE SNATCHES IT OUT OF YOUR HANDS), GO FIND YOUR OWN BENCH YOU FN PUNK." What do you do?, even despite, by visually observing, that by this man stature, you run the possibility of getting yo ass floored, WHAT DO YOU DO, or if you observe someone else being treated this way, WHAT WILL YOU DO? Did this man have more of a right to sit on that bench, and eat your Apple than you did???🤔😏.
genius poetry
Fuckin thank you 🖖💜🇨🇦
Hello beautiful
@ADOLF HITLER back from the dead i see?
@Vicious Feline
Such is the power of your beauty!
@Vicious Feline
Can i get your whatsapp number?
i never realized how much immortal techniques music has changed how i thought and seen things. He's put words, ideas, and wisdom into my head. Made me change my taste in music, lyrically. The many things he's talked about and shares in his music has been a great influence in my life.
I wounder what’s after death. You only know when your dead, I hope it’s not “nothing” where you have no memory and it’s just plain black 😢 I know I’m going somewhere and will remember.
Dope stuff
I need to be on the front lines but no instead of gotta wait
the enemy celebrated his victory on humain kind publicly on "inauguration saint-gothard tunnel", you can see real enemies
helo bro', i see you like a wire of light on this world surrended by dark
This is from 2006? Wtf. He spit the words before the damn politicians did. #ImmortalTechnique4president
I am a musician i write poetry and songs about god now back then i was a hustler trying to make a stand to humans strands
the church does not preach this.
You should Sue Juice World For Stealing This... Plus You Never Sold Your Soul For This Sht! Salute My Brother!! All Blessings You Killed This!!
#Salute
#RealestVatoNotJustRappin
Just saw his Middle Passage Tourin Pamona CA. Yall need to go. IM is on another level...
This track got through the toughest time when I was dead broke and caught up in my hustle. If you’re going through a tough time just know that tough times don’t last. This too shall pass🙌🏽
Just seen him last night. Preformed this and a bunch of other songs in a black tactical vest. Shit was hard.
Catching my own they didnt bring me up for fighting call from up there
Blind to the fact the whole time....
Each verse is so damn deep 2019 and still banging
Hey good news people......Technique is back once again........ready to produce new music.......
This beat is beautiful I keep coming back to this track every few months for years
"
Throwing away cash to fuck trash worthless means to feel a palpable sense that ain't touching the self, so I make dumb choices I'm aware of that shouldn't have last, trying to feel better, well, till the death of a truth that could have made an impact, past a rail,
"
can’t find the words too describe tech cu there ain’t enough.
his albums are one hellva eye opener.
his lyrics hit harder then heartbreak.
his lifes one crazy story and he’s one hell of a mc.
I would love to raise my kids to be soldiers, but then a general would decide when their life would be over.
One of the best songs ever made
Immortal tech SAVE MY LIFE. WHAT EVER WAS LEFT..... ..
Best damn song on this rock
One of the best songs ever made.
This music will help heal the world, but not if we stay couch bound. We need to get out to the streets and peacefully demonstrate
I agree with you on the couch bound part but nothing comes from peaceful demonstrations despite the logical sound of it. Organised&Armed resistance is required in order to seriously change the horrible situation many people live in. The ruling system doesn't feel threatened by peaceful demonstrations. That's why they keep advocating it, to retain the status quo while portraying armed resistance as mad terrorism in the mass media outlets.
The sigh at the end will forever kill me inside
Revolution ✊🏻✊🏿
Love to the truth with heart and soul
no fear💜
#Texit
NOBODY cares about the poor.
NOBODY will stop the war.
NOBODY will fix the system.
NOBODY is the perfect politician.
VOTE FOR NOBODY
Law Without Government
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1647CADF96760B37
"Such an institution of coercion - centralizing immorality, directing theft and murder, and co-ordinating oppression on a scale inconceivable by random criminality - exists. It is the Mob of mobs, Gang of gangs, Conspiracy of conspiracies. It has murdered more people in a few recent years than all the deaths in history before that time; it has stolen in a few recent years more than all the wealth produced in history to that time; it has deluded - for its survival - more minds in a few recent years than all the irrationality of history to that time. Our Enemy, The State." -Samuel Edward Konkin III
"The state is a gang of thieves writ large" -Murray Rothbard
Like and share to wake the masses.
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Black flags for black markets!
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ay am not a police nr support the order but any police listening to this 2019
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Caught in the Hustle
Immortal Technique
Released as an Itunes bonus track for Revolutionary Vol. 1. Is also used in the movie soundtrack…read more »
CAUGHT IN THE HUSTLE LYRICS
[Verse 1]
They say the odds against me are crooked and impossible
Like I was born with a hole in my heart as an obstacle
I was left to die by the doctors in the Children's Hospital
But I never lose hope, success is psychological
The world is volatile and the street is my education
Shapin' the nation, like the blueprint of a Mason
While Shawshank record deals get you raped on occasion
So I'm focused on my economic situation
I'm like the little kids on TV that dig through the trash
I hustle regardless of the way you talk shit and laugh
A lot of niggas drop science, but they don't know the math
Because their mind is narrower than the righteous path
It's funny how on the block niggas will kill you for cash
But never raise the gun and cry out, "Freedom at last!"
The cold war is over, but the world is still gettin' colder
Atlas walkin' through the projects, with the hood on my shoulders
I would like to raise my children to grow to be soldiers
But then a general will decide when their life would be over
So I work hard until my personality's split
Like the Black Panthers, into the Bloods and the Crips
They said I would never be shit, but now I sit and reminisce
Like Yeshua ben Yusef flippin' through Genesis
Ignorance is venomous, and it murders the soul
Spreadin' like a virus, runnin' rampant, out of control
[Hook]
So if I should ever fall and get caught in the hustle
Let them know that I died while I fought in a struggle
From the hoodrats to the rich kids lost in a bubble
Spray paintin' on the streets and at the subway tunnels
Write it down and remember that we never gave in
The mind of a child is where the revolution begins
So if the solution has never been to look in yourself
How is it that you expect to find it anywhere else?
[Verse 2]
Immortal Technique in the streets, back on the hustle
‘Cause three strikes will get you life for stuffin' cracks in a duffle
Upstate, behind steel gates, attacked in a scuffle
Razor blades stuck on the side of pencils
Hacked through your muscle
But the emptiness is what bleeds you to death when it cuts you
And it's the lawyers, not the inmates, schemin' to fuck you
Tryna fight the system from inside eventually corrupts you
But that's what you get when you put a corporation above you
And it's the people that love you that seem to hurt you the most
Sometimes when they die, you find yourself cursin' their ghost
But you make success, nobody delivers your fate
Sometimes you give and you take
Since prehistoric vertebrates crawled out of the lakes
And that's the truth about life
Or to do it to ghetto and your car, rims, and your ice
Because even though we survived
Through the struggle that made us
We still look at ourselves through the eyes of people that hate us
But I'm going to make it regardless of the trumped up charges
And semi-automatic barrages that empty the cartridge
Post-traumatically scarred kids that try to be brave
Because niggas backstab each other just to try to get paid
Turn cannibal, like knights during the crusades
Afraid of responsibility, addicted to greed
Beatin' their girl, purposefully losin' a seed
As if we were bound to the destiny we used to receive
[Hook]
So if I should ever fall and get caught in the hustle
Let them know that I died while I fought in a struggle
From the hoodrats to the rich kids lost in a bubble
Spray paintin' on the streets and at the subway tunnels
Write it down and remember that we never gave in
The mind of a child is where the revolution begins
So if the solution has never been to look in yourself
How is it that you expect to find it anywhere else?
[Bridge/Outro]
I used to wonder about people who don't believe in themselves
But then I saw the way they portrayed us to everyone else
They cursed us to only see the worst in ourselves
Blind to the fact the whole time we were hurtin' ourselves
I used to wonder about people who don't believe in themselves
But then I saw the way they portrayed us to everyone else
They cursed us to only see the worst in ourselves
Blind to the fact the whole time we were hurtin' ourselves
I used to wonder… {*echo*}
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“CAUGHT IN THE HUSTLE” TRACK INFO
Produced BySouthpaw
Written ByImmortal Technique
Release DateSeptember 18, 2001
MUSIC VIDEO

Revolutionary Vol. 1(2001)IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE
1. Creation & Destruction
2. Dominant Species
3. Positive Balance
4. The Getaway
5. Beef and Broccoli
6. No Me Importa
7. Top of the Food Chain (Remix)
8. The Poverty Of Philosophy
9. Revolutionary
10. "Spend Some Time (Remix) (Interlude) (Missing Lyrics)
11. Dance with the Devil
12. The Prophecy
13. Understand Why
14. No Mercy
15. The Illest
16. Speak Your Mind
17. Caught in the Hustle
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The most intellectual rapper alive.
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Make a call I got the money u first asked for your fathers ashes
Don’t trust so easy
Still gave it all. Must be for a good reason I trust the process anyways, heart still works for a little girl
The sad thing about today's era is you can be persecuted for ideas. I remember when you had to actually be a criminal to be treated like one. It's like the Minority report online now-a-days. If a person uses this string this many times over this period of time, create a line of best fit and determine if this person is Bin Laden or {insert violent shooters name here}.
Messed up world man. We're using graphs to model human behaviour and creating systems to keep everyone within a standard deviation from that graph. It's one thing to have an acceptable social standard but another to have it dictated by a mathematical model that was created by someone else with a particular intention in mind - whether that's to motivate you to shop more, assist law enforcement or outright dictate your tastes.
I'm all for emerging technology, but responsible usage and implementation and there are ways to do this; educate consumers and from a developer standpoint offer users the tools to control their data.
What I'm saying is not outlandish or absurd, look at the repercussions of the contrary when it comes to major platforms like Facebook and their privacy scandal. Now we're talking about software that can socially engineer future generations under someone else's terms according to numbers that look at us as a count without really taking us in account.
FUCK OFF next gen 100...
2019 anyone? ✊🏼
Reminds me of the story I can't find in google/ecosia of an indian or asian who killed three people and became a saint, I think he was killed later on but I think it was something about realizing the full extent of what he did, and accepted it as if he had done those things to people or other living beings most dear to him ever, like to your mom and brother.
Taoists called people we call saints, normal people. Something to think about.
"Write it down and remember that we never gave in, the mind of a child is where the revolution begins" that shit really hit my heart and put me in deep thought
Been a while. This shit still gets me in my feels. Timeless to say the least
Caught in a hustle, July 2019 🔉🔊🔉 #ImmortalTechnique ✊✊
2019 still here
Still convinced this is one of the greatest records ever produced.
2019.. still listening 🔥🔥🔥
"Even though we survived through the struggle that made us, we still look at ourselves through the eyes of the people that hate us." People don't listen to this music because they hate facing the truth..
Turn cannibal like knights during the crusade
Siege of maarat
Brilliant....
2019,,here for this
Gabriel Tiki same here G
few rappers are superior
REMEMBER WE NEVER GAVE IN❤️❤️❤️
Such an underrated song by him my favorite n both revolutionary volumes
Immortal Masterpiece!
Anyone else notice the sigh at the end of the song? love that touch, such a good song
1 of the deepest hard hitting songs I know from immortal, this shit is next level poetry.
👉 🕴 👈