INTRODUCING E-Girl/GEN Z to Rage Against The Machine - Killing In the Name!

Gen Z, "So, how hard did Gen X go?" Rage Against the Machine, "Yes."

Imagine comparing this song about police brutality to wearing a mask during a global pandemic 🙄 Y’all missed the plot.

Without the context of the LAPD of the 80s, Rodney King vid, the acquittals, and the LA riots you're missing something. RATM's music is secondary to their message

Andy RATM formed in 91 and were older than Nu Metal which blew up in the mid 90s. They are generally regarded as Rap Metal or Funk Metal which along with Groove Metal influenced the development of Nu Metal.

RATM is always called metal or nu-metal.... but, they predated the nu-metal scene by several years and I think they're more funk/punk/rap/metal. Maybe PROTO-nu-metal.

LA riots and Rodney King in 1992 was a defining moment for the band. This was RATM’s “f*ck you” to law enforcement and the establishment. Such a jam still today.

One of my favourite things about RATM is that this song got a Xmas number one a few years back in the UK (which is a big thing over here), after people got annoyed at X Factor winners getting it for the previous few years. After they won, BBC got them on tv to perform it but told them no matter what not to swear! Needless to say when it got to the last bit, Zack started shouting F@ck you I won’t do what you tell me, and the BBC had to cut the feed as quickly as possible

Ya gotta love this kid Andy Roo speaking with such confidence with 100% wrong facts. It's kinda funny how much he wishes he knew about stuff that was big before he was born and/or not in the scene for.

well whatever you think of de la Rocha's political views he stands up for his principles attending a protest in support of stopping the genocide in Gaza rather than the rock and roll hall of fame induction ceremony says it all

Rage helped a lot of white kids in the suburbs (like me) learn about systemic racism in the US as well as our dark colonial past (and present). They were on the forefront of mixing hard rock/metal with rap before “nu-metal” existed…and they were unabashedly political. In this song we learned that the modern policing system in the US are a direct descendant of the slave patrols that started once slavery was abolished. Police brutality and racist policing still alive and well 200 years later.

Side note: You gotta love it when people misunderstand the actual message/s of RATM. Though I get it you hear/read a lot about them from Social Media and form a biased based on what you read while at the same time not even learning the viewpoints from Zach and Tom and the band themselves. This can't be done by listening to their music alone. You have to read their interviews and look into the actual activism they were and are involved in. For context the band name is just a throw away. It's not the end all be all of what the band stands for. It works though still to this day to spark conversation and discussion about it.

SMH, pointing out the flaws and problems that come from unchecked capitalism is not anti-capitalism... it's being HONEST. It's also naive at best, disingenuous at worst, to ignore how unchecked capitalism has woven inextricably with the government, both subverting the intent of good governance while also removing even basic regulation from companies.

The 90’s was an amazing decade musically! 🔥

RATM are NOT NU-METAL!!🤬

"Anarchy is no guarantee that some people won't kill,injure, kidnap, defraud, or steal from others. Government is a guarantee that some will. " Gustave de Molinari

Tom Morello is one of the most innovative guitar players of the last 30 years

Rage predates Nu Metal by several years, but was also one of the primary inspirations for it. So it's wrong calling them nu-metal, but not entirely incorrect.

Saw RATM live in Belfast, 1993. I was in the balcony. The entire ground floor was bouncing from start to finish of their set.

It wasn’t the bands who wouldn’t let you in in 2020 it was the venue.

We had a day in my last year of high school where we could wear our own clothes instead of school uniform. I wore a RATM top with fuck you I wont do what you tell me on the back of it. It took until after dinner for a teacher to notice and although I got bollocked for it she said it was too late to send me home now 🤣😂 Great times!