@@juans5647 . I have always thought they were anti-establishment. That would make them anti PC. This is an old song but as far as I'm concerned it is exactly the type of attitude we need to be taking today considering all of the government overreach and the oppression that we are experiencing here in the United States and the rest of the world. Between the established DC elected officials and our bureaucracy using the media propaganda machine they are attempting to destroy our country over what could be considered a cold virus. The virus doesn't scare me near as much is the reaction of the people that buy into the narrative and comply to their tyrannical rule to the point where they give up their constitutional rights all for the fake feeling of security.
I can't believe this guy hasn't heard this, first off... secondly, I don't think he's fully grasping the lyrics. Thirdly, I'm sad as fuck that this song is still so relevant and unfortunately will be for a long, long time if people don't get their shit together. Maybe tomorrow? God, I wish.
Except when they're wrong; then their style isn't exactly Lies, but it ain't truth either. Good music for sure though. But their politics are entry-level at best.
And Morello wouldn't be wrong with any part of that description. Too bad not all artists are aware of what they're doing without psyching themselves out (not that blind instinct hasn't produced a ton of amazing stuff).
Rage, and more especially, Tim Commerford made me want to pickup bass. Check out Evil Empire and Battle of Los Angeles. Two absolute killer albums. No fat in any of them
Guitarist Tom Morello has a weekly show on satellite radio, and I caught an episode where he was talking about this song. It was originally their sound test song, and after they got signed, when they were working on their album, singer Zac de la Rocha put together the lyrics to this. And while they were recording it, a record exec was watching, and he was looking right at the man while screaming the lines "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me." So afterwards, the exec asks them, "So I guess this is the direction you're deciding to go in?"
Prior to joining Rage, Zach was singing in the hardcore band Inside Out (check em out if you are not familiar, they just put out an EP called No Spiritual Surrender and it was legendary). The politics come part from Tom and part from Zach and his punk/hardcore roots.
I remember the school telling us to go home because the riots were a few blocks from college campus. Battle of Los Angeles to me is a very important album. I still remember seeing smokes on the news 2 weeks after the riots.
Saw them in concert 1997, the other group playing - Wu Tang! Man, it was amazing people of all colors standing together enjoying two distinct types of music. One of my favorite experiences ever!
Funner fact: Apparently a political science degree from Harvard doesn't mean shit, because Morello is not a great thinker. Hell of an amazing guitar player though.
randy salim Because when I was a teenager I thought the same things in the same way. But I'm 43 now...I’ve learned through continued education and life experience that that sort of Liberal Activist ideology is entry-level. It makes a lot of sense when you're 19, but as time goes by the incoherency of the ideology becomes apparent. Tom Morello's 55 years old and he still sounds like a college student who just discovered Noam Chomsky. It looks like he's just latched onto a suite of ideas and never questioned them and never thought about them. At age 55 that's just not the sign of a very deep thinker.
This is from the "Grunge" era. Then you add heavy metal, rap and explosiveness of truth in their lyrics. They are one of a kind. ✌😷 Thank you Jamel for all of the time you put into your page. Stay well.
I love watching people listen to this song for the first time. They all hit the same markers. The two cowbells makes them perk up. Followed by immediate sit up as the funky guitar hits the stage. The people groove, we are in the groove, we are the groove. Then the drum break, back and forth, we prepare to surge like a wave. Then the vocals hit with the real rhythm, and we soar.
This is pure power, I was a 90’s teen and I’m a 44 yo mum and scientist and still headband to RAM and all grunge things. I miss when music was raw powerful and with a message! This is a cry against oppression and it is still pertinent. That my friend is Tom Morello playing his unique guitar sound and he still plays (we was in audioslave with the late and beloved Chris Cornell btw) and he still rages against the machine. My children learned the significance of this music, my uni students in the Middle East where I lived discovered it and made it ours. Keep rocking 🤘
"What's their style?" There was a glorious moment in the early 90s when rap/hiphop and metal/rock artists looked across the great cultural divide and went "oh. Oh! Hello friend!" And thus was born something wonderful.
That divide was created by "...The machine". From the 20s when white Country and black R&B musicians were experimenting with the other's style, eventually creating Rock and Roll, until the early 70s when Prog Rock and hippy culture and anti-war and civil rights movements were popular, Blacks and Whites shared and collaborated heavily within the rock scene. Record companies giving black created music to white acts and The Government, with it's programs that kept black folk in ghettos, and the propaganda of the "war on drugs" from the '70s through to the late '90s encouraged that separation of poor & middle-class whites from almost all blacks (but especially poor blacks) and created a positive feedback loop of Ignorance that nurtured the divide. White culture kept Rock and became Metalheads and Grunge. Black culture shifted to Gangsta' from hip-hop. Thankfully the last 20 years has seen that divide closing. And it has been bringing me great joy to see "culturally black" people testing "culturally white" music with an open mind and realizing what they missed while their culture was away focusing on other music and dealing with shit in general.
1 year later and still one of my most favorite reactions. To introduce someone to RATM for the first and see their face is like watching someone eat cake for the first time.
It's amazing how RATM announce a comeback tour and sell out arenas and stadiums all across North America and then boom COVID just comes outta nowhere.... Sounds fishy to me.
AHHHH!!! I love that you love all my music. I'm 45, and this was my time and my music!! Our late Gen-X stuff can't be compared. So proud of our time and what my generation did.
I’m 59 and a music lover from day one. Grunge saved ROCK imo. Late 80’s saw a cyclical malaise of crap. I love what your Gen did and stood for and I relate to it and loved it nearly as much 😎🙂
I remember being in a dance club and hearing this for the first time - holy sh... What a wake up call! Never seen a place go off like that! Never forget it. Been listening to the band ever since. Watching them play that live scares the h... out of me ... in a great way!
I am not fluent enough in rap to agree with you or not on your assessment, but I wanted to say thank you for the proper use of "mic" instead of "mike."
This song was about the association between the KKK & The Authorities like the police department, high court judges etc. Hence the lyrics "for some of those join forces are the same that burn crosses"
The first time my dad discovered them, it was at lollapalooza in the early 90s and Zach was reading calmly out of a book and the more he read the more pissed off he became and the crowd was getting crazier and they broke out in song and my dad said it was the craziest concert moment he’s ever saw. After that he was hooked
I miss this. I miss when guys looked like this, when music sounded like this, when I felt like this. I feel like I ended up such a vanilla working class stiff and I miss this part of my youth so much. Now I'm just one of the adults, towing the line, keeping my head down, part of the problem 😔 (my comment about guys looking like this is not a comment on anyone in the lgbtq community BTW, I just miss this style, it fitted in with me being a grunge kid)
Miss Casey H. Is there a guilt factor that was a learned thing, or perhaps a you actually saw injustices not only to blacks , maybe whites , Asians, Mexican, how about the Native American Indian? They also slaughtered"In the name of " yes? Germans by the frikin millions, the MILLIONS Killed, Murderd, GASED, "Killin In The Name of" Myself, don't care,the men I served with in the ARMY " Forces same color blood I don't have any black freinds now not even aquaintances . Am I a RACIST???
Casey, don't feel bad. We all have bills to pay and mouths to feed. We can all rage against the machine by getting involved in our communities and giving back by volunteering, or by donating $$ or clothes to a homeless shelter, or food bank etc. Liking stuff and retweeting doesnt help. If you cant donate $$ there are still other ways to help. I know the band have a few organizations that they are involved with. I'm sure you can find them on the bands website. Most importantly vote in your local elections and national. make your voice heard. Fight the power.
When humans discard the term "race" ( there is no human race, it is a term used to divide humans into subclasses based on Creed, Colors, Wealth, Location on the planet etc ) and just become one Human Species we will unify permanently.. I am of the Human Species, I am a Human that is Being..
Jarleron that’s true. 1st we gotta dismantle some hundred’s of years of division. Reform inequitable institutions, laws and society that were based on these racial divides and subjugation. & if possible deprogram the indoctrinated white power idiots & angry, paranoid Karen’s
If you're not...then just a suggestion: you should have the lyrics up so you can follow along and know what he's saying...because the message is soooo powerful.
What I like is how much Zack repeats the lyrics. Like there aren't a lot of lyrics in this song, he just keeps hammering them like "hey motherfucker, listen. ill say it again, and again, and again. plain english."
I know right I cannot believe I’m just realizing everything they are saying in this song I really wish he would have understood and commented on the narrative of this song
Their style is pure energy with a message. This is what music suppose to convey. They're talking about police brutality. Things still need to get better.
I live in one of the top ten by population cities in America and I have never heard this on an "oldies" station. This gets rotation and airplay with current rock acts. Because truth never gets old.
@@jasonlambert5552 When those cops were acquitted everyone I know was stunned, enraged. No one understood how it was possible, aside from knowing it was wrong and had everything to do with police brutality and race. A lot of us didn't know this was happening all the time. Modern technology has revealed it to us.
I was introduced to RATM at an early age. I listened to Led Zeppelin and the Beatles with my dad. When I heard this song as a 10 year old in 1997 it was because my buddy said, "it says the f word a lot." When it started playing that's when I knew what real rock music was. I was immediately hooked. Seen them live and when they played Bulls on Parade I almost cried in joy.
“White people got more in common with colored people then they do with rich people.” Not sure why I thought of that quote from the movie Bulworth, but it seemed to fit the lyrics.
pretty much! so many europeans came over as indentured servants & collaborated w/ enslaved africans on revolts, before slaveowners & politicians decided to nix that & gave them land/money once their 'service' ran out.
I read an essay by a GrandDragon of the KKK. He wrote how he eventually saw that he was wrong when he saw that white politicians didn’t want to be associated with the KKK. He looked around and realized that all the poor white people were much more like poor black people and that they were on the same side and that rich white people were his real “enemy”. It was really an amazing read.
Punk rock was my childhood, then old school hip hop, then the music you honor, thank you.....l love your reactions, and I HATE reaction videos.....thank you. I was an alternate music radio DJ for years. Most people react to music with such ignorance. Thank you for your depth of emotion, open mind, social awareness, and your soul....You have brought me to tears, as most people listen because it is "cool" I listen because this music is ESSENTIAL. BTW my children call this my "anthem" song.....I accept that as a badge of HONOR.
Welcome to my world brother. Saw these guys when they were nobody back in the day. I was 22 New right from the 1st note they were going to be great! early 90's best time for music everything was being smashed together.
I remember when this song came out, my high school soccer team got in some shit because of it. We were on an away game bus, after school, waiting in the parking area for the rain to stop. Our coach and driver left to go in and talk to the opposing team's coaches, so we turned the tunes up on a boom box someone brought. This song started, we all rocked out to it, and at the end there were 16 teenagers all screaming at the top of their lungs, "FUCK YOU I WON'T" ... etc etc. Our coach was not happy. He said he could hear us all the way in the office in the middle of the school. Some teachers out in the parking said the bus was rocking back and forth. Wow did we get into some trouble lol. He yelled at us the entire hour ride back home. Next practice, all we did was run.
song still gives me chills. It has it's meaning against police brutality and to me, also exemplifies the rage of Gen X. We saw the injustices and felt helpless to change it. It fostered our distrust of authority and we hate being told what to do.
I have always classified them in the "Alternative Rock" category right alongside another one of my favorite bands that you may or may not be aware of at this point, and that is "Jane's Addiction". Freakin' awesome!!!
This was the Christmas No. 1 in the uk charts in 2009 thanks to a campaign to break the shitty reality show winner (x factor etc) monopoly on the chart. It was a beautiful christmas moment!
As a result they were invited to play it live on air for one of the BBC radio stations on the condition they skipped the "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" section. Suffice to say it ended with someone at the station muting them in a panic and then a lot of apologies. How could they possibly have seen that coming?
This is actually a re-watch. You were ahead of the curve on these reactions. So much respect. Glad the band that brought me joy some 30 years ago can still wake people up. May I suggest some Fishbone?
they were the opening act for a Pearl Jam show i saw in May 1992. right after the riots. i had no idea RATM even existed. mind was so totally blown. every album, all killer no filler.
We called them "Industrial" a Sub-Alternative sound. Love this song! The message is strong. It saddens me that it's still needed. Love what you do Jamel! Love your ❤️.
I love how every time he says "some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses" it sinks in a little more all these years and it still hits
@@relax4377 With respect, I think maybe it would be good to look at the bigger picture. You live long enough , and you meet a lot of people from literally the whole world, and discover we all have one thing in common, that we don't like different people. Even animals get that way. But it's a sign of developement of every society to continuously work on this tendency, because you can't deny that every act of violence is caused by greed, and reasoned to be ok by claiming the "others" are bad. This has happened world wide, Hindus and Muslims, Chinese and Hons, Germans and Pols, Japanese and...the whole world, as well as white and black. And the only reason all these groups do these things is because someone told them to, and they do what they told you. This is undisputed. The song is not pointing fingers at anything you hold dear, it's about having the courage to say, no, I won't. Such a simple concept. Nazism was brought down by people just saying no. Communism in Russia fell because people said no. This is what the song is about.
We should get this song trending again. Some guy in the UK managed to get it to No 1 in the Charts at Christmas a few years ago. I feel with all the shit going on right now it should be our anthem. Everywhere.
Jamel you know I clicked on this right away. I knew you would love it, that stank face and head nod says it all! On to Bulls on Parade reaction. Thanks you so much for this reaction!
"Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses." He's saying there's racists policing our communities. The music is amazing. The message is better.
Yeah man! When this was released I was in the early twenties and I LOOOOVED it!!! Thanks for your Reaction, and pulling me in, directly to a journey straight to youth. Im really with U, with your calmness, your open mind and your honest words over and over again. Take Care Jamal!
My mom is from Detroit and was influenced by the music history there. She LOVED and LOVES Rage. She saw them live 8 times, mostly in their very early days.
As a clueless white kid in the 80s and 90s I got most of my "education" on race from public enemy and rage against the machine. Truly great band with great lyrics behind all the rage. Tom Morello once said he was meant to be the DJ, but with a guitar.
Your head must’ve exploded with Prophets of Rage. Mine did. If you haven’t seen them let me just say, BRUH! You better get on it. I was skeptical but the shit was lights out. I’m trying to get out to Coachella this year though RATM W/Zach.
@@hootie6226 When the Prophets of Rage album came out I listened to it for two weeks straight. Haven't done that with an album in a LONG time. For pure mind blow value nothing will ever top being a 16 year old from the suburbs listening to Fear of a Black Planet for the first time. Before that all the rap I knew was stuff like Run DMC or Sugar Hill Gang. I listened to it a few weeks ago for the first time in years and it still hits. Back in the 90s a friend of mine bought tickets to Rage and asked me if I wanted to go. I said yes, but later he told me he met a girl and was taking her instead. I've still never seen them live. I hope they do an actual tour later. Festivals like Coachella are just too hard to and far away when I have young kids.
Hey remember back in the day Ice T had a metal band called “ Body count” haha I’m old AF for remembering this but just popped in my head and had to share lol
Listen to Rage back in my teenage years. The 90s had the best music. Their music and lyrics made political sense. Shit 6/3/2020 and still dealing with the same police brutality. Especially, being someone of color. Change! We need change!
If you are referring to racial police brutality then I'm afraid you have been misinformed. Statistically speaking we don't have a serious problem with racism in our police forces. Of course if you watch a lot of the mainstream media in this country then you may get a different idea but the reality of it is that it is very uncommon and the United States is probably the least racist country in the world.
@@NamisJC was that so hard to understand? I'll translate, more white people are killed every year by the police than blacks but the media does not cover it with the same zeal.
Love RATM....but their lyrics are pure political baby babble. "You justify those that died. By wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites." That's corporate media driven math tarded delusion. Internet data research has proven those lyrics over-simplified or simply false.
I just watched your reaction to Pearl Jam’s Jeremy and you said you prefer live performances so you can see and feel the passion. Can I suggest you watch RATM’s live version of Killing in the Name from the 1993 PinkPop festival. You won’t regret it. It’s awesome.
I disagree considering this song came out shortly after the acquittals of the cops that beat Rodney King and after the LA Riots. It's just history repeating itself, sadly.
pink pop was great.... we created this: Rage Against The Machine breaks the tent so hard that it creates an earthquake of no less than 1 on the Richter scale. Five years later, System Of A Down does the same. During Prophets Of Rage in 2017 there was also a lot of jumping, but there was no earthquake
Been a fan of theirs since 1996. Seen them live 3 times. Each concert was better than the last. I’m 51 and still jamming to their music and got my 15 year old daughter into them Their music and message is more relevant today than it ever was. A quote I once read from Tom Morello “Good music makes you want to tap your feet and get with your girl. Great music makes you want to turn over and burn police cars..... I’ve always wanted to make great music” Zach de la Rocha was woke long before the alarm ever went off. Dude spits fire and a real message. I will be 80 and still head bopping to them. RATM forever
What’s their style? Revolution.
preach! I would also say their style is a never ending battle against social injustice.
Amen.
@@juans5647 .
I have always thought they were anti-establishment. That would make them anti PC. This is an old song but as far as I'm concerned it is exactly the type of attitude we need to be taking today considering all of the government overreach and the oppression that we are experiencing here in the United States and the rest of the world. Between the established DC elected officials and our bureaucracy using the media propaganda machine they are attempting to destroy our country over what could be considered a cold virus. The virus doesn't scare me near as much is the reaction of the people that buy into the narrative and comply to their tyrannical rule to the point where they give up their constitutional rights all for the fake feeling of security.
Rap Funk and Rock. Fucking great shit
😂👌🏾
The fact that this song came out 25 years ago delivering the same message in 2020 says a lot
Wasn't Killing in the name of released in 92? After the Rodney king incident?
Twenty-eight years ago, but … yeah.
@@Musicreviewbydennis It was released after but written before.
1992
I can't believe this guy hasn't heard this, first off... secondly, I don't think he's fully grasping the lyrics. Thirdly, I'm sad as fuck that this song is still so relevant and unfortunately will be for a long, long time if people don't get their shit together. Maybe tomorrow? God, I wish.
Rage Against The Machine is their own style. They're rock, they're rap, they're metal. Completely unique
Add funk to that description
No there's other bands that do a similar thing lol
American hardcore - gen2
Rapmetal. It used to be a thing.
I feel Rage's music is similar to Lincoln Park, Limp Biskit and others.
They display rock and rappin' which are in the front of their sound.
IMO.
"Hold on, there's been three, four transitions already??"
Fuck yeah. Welcome to RATM.
What’s their style?
Truth. Truth is their style.
and that's on period pooh
Except when they're wrong; then their style isn't exactly Lies, but it ain't truth either.
Good music for sure though. But their politics are entry-level at best.
@@twogungunnar9456 If you're even just a tiny little bit socialist these days, you're already closer to the truth than 80% of all people.
@@somedudeok1451
Not really.
@@twogungunnar9456 Yes rly. Don't bother disagreeing, if you're not gonna make an argument.
Guitarist Tom Morello once said it was rap over rock guitar with a funk bass line and hip-hop beat so it's everybody's style not just one genre.
They invented their own genre. No box could hold them.
@@ixlives4558 And no one has successfully been able to replicate them....even a little.
And Morello wouldn't be wrong with any part of that description. Too bad not all artists are aware of what they're doing without psyching themselves out (not that blind instinct hasn't produced a ton of amazing stuff).
Tom Morello and Adam Jones of Tool went to school together and played together. You can hear that in both their styles.
@@AKABoondock19 try Stray from the Path.
I never heard this before today. I was 'out at sea' during this time and was never exposed. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I'm envious. I wish I can discover Rage all over again
Rage, and more especially, Tim Commerford made me want to pickup bass. Check out Evil Empire and Battle of Los Angeles. Two absolute killer albums. No fat in any of them
Thanks for your service to all of us on the mainland-
Rock out and enjoy🤘🏽
@@gasolineandwine Same here!
@@gasolineandwine “no fat” is an excellent descriptor for Rage. 👍🏼
Zach is a lyrical poet. Tom Morello and the boys are a metal band. That's how Rage is classified.
Absolutly not..
@@bagadule why?
@@Daxtarr1 their music is called Hardcore... Metal is different.
Zach is a punk rock dinosaur...old school. tom is a funk guitarist and the rest of the band just tries to keep up
@@steveg8102 bullshit. You are trolling.
"So Tom, Do you wanna be a guitarist or DJ?"
Tom Morello - Yes.
Lmfaooo
And he is educated AF as well.
Where's your turntable?
Tom Morello - holds up guitar.
Tom is a god... AUDIOSLAVE WITH THE LATE GREAT CHRIS CORNELL ...
Perfect.
Guitarist Tom Morello has a weekly show on satellite radio, and I caught an episode where he was talking about this song. It was originally their sound test song, and after they got signed, when they were working on their album, singer Zac de la Rocha put together the lyrics to this. And while they were recording it, a record exec was watching, and he was looking right at the man while screaming the lines "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me." So afterwards, the exec asks them, "So I guess this is the direction you're deciding to go in?"
LOL Wow, amazing! Never heard that story. Thanks for sharing that.
Thank you...for THIS COMMENT
What station?
@@ritzoratso5517 LITHIUM...not sure the # but it's on at like 8 or 9 on LITHIUM
Prior to joining Rage, Zach was singing in the hardcore band Inside Out (check em out if you are not familiar, they just put out an EP called No Spiritual Surrender and it was legendary). The politics come part from Tom and part from Zach and his punk/hardcore roots.
this came out after the LA Riots in 1992 after the beating of Rodney King by the LAPD. still so damn important.
Same issues. So sad, but we still need to keep up the fight....
Yep, twenty years and nothing changed... Capitalism working...
@@ivanerokhin9160 keeping us all broke and hating one another over bullshit
I remember the school telling us to go home because the riots were a few blocks from college campus. Battle of Los Angeles to me is a very important album. I still remember seeing smokes on the news 2 weeks after the riots.
@@woolfel i was in the SGV and we were sent home. :(
Saw them in concert 1997, the other group playing - Wu Tang! Man, it was amazing people of all colors standing together enjoying two distinct types of music. One of my favorite experiences ever!
What a legendary moment in time!
fun fact: Morello got a political science degree from Harvard. He got the brains to back up his skill
Funner fact: Apparently a political science degree from Harvard doesn't mean shit, because Morello is not a great thinker. Hell of an amazing guitar player though.
Should have got a degree in music
@@twogungunnar9456 X) okay dummy
TwoGun Gunnar he is not a great thinker because..... (not challenging you: honestly curious as to how you arrived at that conclusion)
randy salim
Because when I was a teenager I thought the same things in the same way. But I'm 43 now...I’ve learned through continued education and life experience that that sort of Liberal Activist ideology is entry-level. It makes a lot of sense when you're 19, but as time goes by the incoherency of the ideology becomes apparent. Tom Morello's 55 years old and he still sounds like a college student who just discovered Noam Chomsky. It looks like he's just latched onto a suite of ideas and never questioned them and never thought about them. At age 55 that's just not the sign of a very deep thinker.
It makes me happy to watch someone discover the magic of Rage for the first time!
Rage was NO JOKE!
@@TheCwright1976 Rage IS no joke.
I agree
It's definitely a good experience.
Yesssssss. I remember as a underground hip hop fan the first time I heard rage in 96/97.....mind blowing!
There isn’t a lot of lyrics in this song, but the lyrics have more heart, feeling, poignancy than just about anything in (the charts) today 👏👏
This is from the "Grunge" era.
Then you add heavy metal, rap and explosiveness of truth in their lyrics. They are one of a kind. ✌😷
Thank you Jamel for all of the time you put into your page. Stay well.
I love watching people listen to this song for the first time. They all hit the same markers. The two cowbells makes them perk up. Followed by immediate sit up as the funky guitar hits the stage. The people groove, we are in the groove, we are the groove. Then the drum break, back and forth, we prepare to surge like a wave. Then the vocals hit with the real rhythm, and we soar.
This is pure power, I was a 90’s teen and I’m a 44 yo mum and scientist and still headband to RAM and all grunge things. I miss when music was raw powerful and with a message! This is a cry against oppression and it is still pertinent. That my friend is Tom Morello playing his unique guitar sound and he still plays (we was in audioslave with the late and beloved Chris Cornell btw) and he still rages against the machine. My children learned the significance of this music, my uni students in the Middle East where I lived discovered it and made it ours. Keep rocking 🤘
Yeah 🤘
♥️♥️🤘🤘
I'm a 42 year old science geek who agrees with your statement 100%. This was the very first RATM song I heard and I've been a huge fan ever since.
" I miss when music was raw powerful and with a message!"
Me too.
:(
39yo mom here! Much love!
"What's their style?"
There was a glorious moment in the early 90s when rap/hiphop and metal/rock artists looked across the great cultural divide and went "oh. Oh! Hello friend!"
And thus was born something wonderful.
That divide was created by "...The machine".
From the 20s when white Country and black R&B musicians were experimenting with the other's style, eventually creating Rock and Roll, until the early 70s when Prog Rock and hippy culture and anti-war and civil rights movements were popular, Blacks and Whites shared and collaborated heavily within the rock scene.
Record companies giving black created music to white acts and The Government, with it's programs that kept black folk in ghettos, and the propaganda of the "war on drugs" from the '70s through to the late '90s encouraged that separation of poor & middle-class whites from almost all blacks (but especially poor blacks) and created a positive feedback loop of Ignorance that nurtured the divide.
White culture kept Rock and became Metalheads and Grunge. Black culture shifted to Gangsta' from hip-hop.
Thankfully the last 20 years has seen that divide closing. And it has been bringing me great joy to see "culturally black" people testing "culturally white" music with an open mind and realizing what they missed while their culture was away focusing on other music and dealing with shit in general.
1 year later and still one of my most favorite reactions. To introduce someone to RATM for the first and see their face is like watching someone eat cake for the first time.
Reporter: "Are you guys Rock, or Rap, or Metal, or what?
R.A.T.M: "Yes"
Or funk?
Yeah, that too.
I think it more like nu metal
June 1, 2020 still relevant. Miss you so much RATM
I would give just about anything for a new RATM album. The world needs it more than ever.
Tom started a group with chuck d and b real and I believe they cover ratm.
Check out Run the Jewels. Zach was featured on several tracks.
It's amazing how RATM announce a comeback tour and sell out arenas and stadiums all across North America and then boom COVID just comes outta nowhere.... Sounds fishy to me.
We should blow this song back up. Make it our anthem
AHHHH!!! I love that you love all my music. I'm 45, and this was my time and my music!! Our late Gen-X stuff can't be compared. So proud of our time and what my generation did.
I got broke in, by the Beatles and never stopped. Rage is in my top 5
I'm 42 and never found a sound comparable to RATM, with such energy and a such message in same time.
I’m 59 and a music lover from day one. Grunge saved ROCK imo. Late 80’s saw a cyclical malaise of crap. I love what your Gen did and stood for and I relate to it and loved it nearly as much 😎🙂
I remember being in a dance club and hearing this for the first time - holy sh... What a wake up call! Never seen a place go off like that! Never forget it. Been listening to the band ever since. Watching them play that live scares the h... out of me ... in a great way!
Zack is most definitely a rapper. He’s one of the smartest and sharpest tongued rappers to ever pick up a motherfuckin’ Mic!
I am not fluent enough in rap to agree with you or not on your assessment, but I wanted to say thank you for the proper use of "mic" instead of "mike."
Dope MC
Zack and b real and muggs these guys can rap. Goody mob.
This song was about the association between the KKK & The Authorities like the police department, high court judges etc. Hence the lyrics "for some of those join forces are the same that burn crosses"
It's "Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses"
@@TalosValheru "Some of those that RUN forces are the same that burn crosses."
@@TheDeltaMirror it's work...
Yep... He's talking about the Democrats... get woke for real before its too late
@@calebkorzo2038 LOL bullshit. Unless you're talking about Democrats before the party switch in the 1830's.
"He's rappin a little bit..." I just fainted. Sleeping so hard on Zach it kills me.
I am 64 years old and I love these guys. I am so glad to see them regroup and do a tour in 2022. Rock On RATM!
Bro, these guys were Black Lives Matter 20 years before the hashtag ✊🏽
30 yrs
and they werent wrong.
@@dynrgal where did that time go.....nothing has changed. sorry about ur name.
@@lin2thez341 lol..I am NOT a Karen so I call Karen's, Karen
karen 🙌🏻
The first time my dad discovered them, it was at lollapalooza in the early 90s and Zach was reading calmly out of a book and the more he read the more pissed off he became and the crowd was getting crazier and they broke out in song and my dad said it was the craziest concert moment he’s ever saw. After that he was hooked
"What do you consider they're style?" They're Rage Against The Machine. They're in their own class.
I miss this. I miss when guys looked like this, when music sounded like this, when I felt like this. I feel like I ended up such a vanilla working class stiff and I miss this part of my youth so much. Now I'm just one of the adults, towing the line, keeping my head down, part of the problem 😔
(my comment about guys looking like this is not a comment on anyone in the lgbtq community BTW, I just miss this style, it fitted in with me being a grunge kid)
So much truth here....
Miss Casey H.
Is there a guilt factor that was a learned thing, or perhaps a you actually saw injustices
not only to blacks , maybe whites , Asians,
Mexican, how about the Native American
Indian? They also slaughtered"In the name of " yes?
Germans by the frikin millions, the MILLIONS
Killed, Murderd, GASED, "Killin In The Name of" Myself, don't care,the men I served with in the ARMY " Forces same color blood
I don't have any black freinds now not even aquaintances . Am I a
RACIST???
Casey, don't feel bad. We all have bills to pay and mouths to feed. We can all rage against the machine by getting involved in our communities and giving back by volunteering, or by donating $$ or clothes to a homeless shelter, or food bank etc. Liking stuff and retweeting doesnt help. If you cant donate $$ there are still other ways to help. I know the band have a few organizations that they are involved with. I'm sure you can find them on the bands website. Most importantly vote in your local elections and national. make your voice heard. Fight the power.
Preach. Same here.
I feel ya 🤙💜❤💙
This song came out in the early 90's. Why is this still so relevant? Why have we not done better?
When humans discard the term "race" ( there is no human race, it is a term used to divide humans into subclasses based on Creed, Colors, Wealth, Location on the planet etc ) and just become one Human Species we will unify permanently.. I am of the Human Species, I am a Human that is Being..
We were too busy growing up and working to student loans and feed fam, but fuck that shit. The time is now, I guess
Jarleron that’s true. 1st we gotta dismantle some hundred’s of years of division. Reform inequitable institutions, laws and society that were based on these racial divides and subjugation. & if possible deprogram the indoctrinated white power idiots & angry, paranoid Karen’s
Never get tired of this song.
I went to high-school in the 90s and listening to RATM as a teen, blew my mind! I am so happy that ppl are still rocking out to them!✊
Their style is “fuck the system” in all its interpretations.
More like Rage Against The Machine
@@Hexnilium AKA “fuck the system”
Nah that’s soad lmaoo
More like fuck big money, fuck the establishment, fuck corporations, fuck white nationalism, fuck the police. Support workers and minority rights.
If you're not...then just a suggestion: you should have the lyrics up so you can follow along and know what he's saying...because the message is soooo powerful.
Yeh, this irritated me but I bet he knows the entire album now.
What I like is how much Zack repeats the lyrics. Like there aren't a lot of lyrics in this song, he just keeps hammering them like "hey motherfucker, listen. ill say it again, and again, and again. plain english."
I know right I cannot believe I’m just realizing everything they are saying in this song I really wish he would have understood and commented on the narrative of this song
@@johnm2939
The whole world is oppressed not just black people, the banks have everyone a slave!
scotty macg 😒
Rage was "woke" before "woke" was a thing.
Woke before woke got hijackec by the establisment.
Please dont use the word woke to describe this amazing band. Keep that crap out of this conversation.
@@chachmonroe3667 note the parenthesis around the word and see the first reply.
@@brittanymiller6253 lol parenthesis?
@@dragonlord5665 quotations, excuse me.
Their style is pure energy with a message. This is what music suppose to convey. They're talking about police brutality. Things still need to get better.
I live in one of the top ten by population cities in America and I have never heard this on an "oldies" station. This gets rotation and airplay with current rock acts. Because truth never gets old.
They were singing about Police brutality in the 90's
Theokolese The Shadow Of Death And it’s still happening. ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
Cough on a cop in 2020.
Rodney King was a huge wake up call for many, not enough, but many.
@@jasonlambert5552 When those cops were acquitted everyone I know was stunned, enraged. No one understood how it was possible, aside from knowing it was wrong and had everything to do with police brutality and race. A lot of us didn't know this was happening all the time. Modern technology has revealed it to us.
They've been singing about police brutality since they invented police....
The 90's was one of the best time of rock besides 70's
it was a great time to be in your 20's
There are really exceptional groups in every decade. But the 60’s and 70’s was like hitting the lottery for music lovers.
I think the 1st half of the 90's were the best hands down.
I thought the 80's SUCKED for rock. Hair metal and Glam rock? Give me a break. That shit was terrible. Only those nostalgic will claim otherwise.
60s 70s 90s best time for rock..80s had underground trash metal and alternative/punk, but mainstream music was HORRIBLE..
It's the evolution of music. Rage Against the Machine combines elements of other work in a way not seen before. This was groundbreaking stuff.
I was introduced to RATM at an early age. I listened to Led Zeppelin and the Beatles with my dad. When I heard this song as a 10 year old in 1997 it was because my buddy said, "it says the f word a lot." When it started playing that's when I knew what real rock music was. I was immediately hooked. Seen them live and when they played Bulls on Parade I almost cried in joy.
Jamel: "Stay tuned for part 2"
Me: "F*** you I won't do what you tell me! .... sorry, blacked out there for a second. Where am I?"
Excelent RATM comment. 10/10 would recommend.
That comment 😂😂😂😂
Great response 👍
😂😂😂
“White people got more in common with colored people then they do with rich people.” Not sure why I thought of that quote from the movie Bulworth, but it seemed to fit the lyrics.
That quote is real asf though.
pretty much! so many europeans came over as indentured servants & collaborated w/ enslaved africans on revolts, before slaveowners & politicians decided to nix that & gave them land/money once their 'service' ran out.
I read an essay by a GrandDragon of the KKK. He wrote how he eventually saw that he was wrong when he saw that white politicians didn’t want to be associated with the KKK. He looked around and realized that all the poor white people were much more like poor black people and that they were on the same side and that rich white people were his real “enemy”. It was really an amazing read.
Class warfare has always made more sense than race warfare.
Ya we all poor
Punk rock was my childhood, then old school hip hop, then the music you honor, thank you.....l love your reactions, and I HATE reaction videos.....thank you. I was an alternate music radio DJ for years. Most people react to music with such ignorance. Thank you for your depth of emotion, open mind, social awareness, and your soul....You have brought me to tears, as most people listen because it is "cool" I listen because this music is ESSENTIAL. BTW my children call this my "anthem" song.....I accept that as a badge of HONOR.
Welcome to my world brother. Saw these guys when they were nobody back in the day. I was 22 New right from the 1st note they were going to be great! early 90's best time for music everything was being smashed together.
I remember when this song came out, my high school soccer team got in some shit because of it. We were on an away game bus, after school, waiting in the parking area for the rain to stop. Our coach and driver left to go in and talk to the opposing team's coaches, so we turned the tunes up on a boom box someone brought. This song started, we all rocked out to it, and at the end there were 16 teenagers all screaming at the top of their lungs, "FUCK YOU I WON'T" ... etc etc. Our coach was not happy. He said he could hear us all the way in the office in the middle of the school. Some teachers out in the parking said the bus was rocking back and forth. Wow did we get into some trouble lol. He yelled at us the entire hour ride back home. Next practice, all we did was run.
iambiggus ironically 😂
You were waking up, that's scary to the establishment. 😉
Great story man!!!
You go! Babies! So proud of you
Damn I would fucking love to be in that situation
Iam 46 and I rocked the hell out to them back in the day. Brings back some good memories. You young cats missed so much
song still gives me chills. It has it's meaning against police brutality and to me, also exemplifies the rage of Gen X. We saw the injustices and felt helpless to change it. It fostered our distrust of authority and we hate being told what to do.
I have always classified them in the "Alternative Rock" category right alongside another one of my favorite bands that you may or may not be aware of at this point, and that is "Jane's Addiction". Freakin' awesome!!!
This was the Christmas No. 1 in the uk charts in 2009 thanks to a campaign to break the shitty reality show winner (x factor etc) monopoly on the chart. It was a beautiful christmas moment!
That was one of the best moments in recent chart history.
As a result they were invited to play it live on air for one of the BBC radio stations on the condition they skipped the "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" section. Suffice to say it ended with someone at the station muting them in a panic and then a lot of apologies. How could they possibly have seen that coming?
Kemp Plays A bit like The Doors on Ed Sullivan.
@@KempPlays
BBC Radio 6 Music, Lauren Laverne mid morning show.🤐😁
I simply adore the uk's penchant for amplifying songs in their charts based on current events. Legends.
He finds out what 40+ year olds are jamming too hahahaha
Ricky Bobby true story!!
This nearly 60 year old is too.
40 years old and don't know the difference between to and too :P
This rocker almost 62! Love this and them! Read their list of suggested books
@@whatdothlife4660 Always a grammar cop on patrol....😂😂😂
That little riff at 4:19 tho !! Gives me chills !
This is actually a re-watch. You were ahead of the curve on these reactions. So much respect. Glad the band that brought me joy some 30 years ago can still wake people up. May I suggest some Fishbone?
Saw RATM open Lallapalooza with Fishbone. Great Show. But I missed NIN who was on the second stage.
28 yrs later and this song still rings true.. damn.
Greatest thing about this is Zack was still a teenager when they wrote this. Best show I ever saw was Wu Tang open for Rage 15 or 20 years ago.
I saw that tour and it still tops the list as best of the 1500+ shows I've seen
Meaty O'Creaty same I saw them with Wu Tang in Charlotte, had to be 1996-97
@@SWWonders 1996 baby! We big old.
they were the opening act for a Pearl Jam show i saw in May 1992. right after the riots. i had no idea RATM even existed. mind was so totally blown. every album, all killer no filler.
We called them "Industrial" a Sub-Alternative sound. Love this song! The message is strong. It saddens me that it's still needed. Love what you do Jamel! Love your ❤️.
I hear they're reuniting and touring 2020....I'm SO READY YESSSSSSS!!!
Susan Jones 🙌🏻🙌🏻🤟
Reading and Leeds
Yes very true! But sadly no LA SHOW ☹️
Until you price their tickets!😲
They now ARE the machine.😔💔
@@jeanninenoll1584 bought mine today...cheaper than Tool was
Absolutely love to see a new generation listen to and appreciate music that we loved and watched being created as we were coming up! Enjoy Jamel!
When you're checking out a video without lyrics, consider turning on the closed captioning.
Their music is a wakeup call to people to watch out for themselves- vs the " machine"
A message in a bottle wrapped in funk and serious rock!🇺🇸🏆⚡⚡
It’s just rage. Like tool, there is no certain genre. They just exist 🤘🏻
I love the fact that my two favourite bands of all time are mentioned in the same sentence by so many people.
I love how every time he says "some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses" it sinks in a little more
all these years and it still hits
This was an epic song. In a few minutes he summarizes the reason for all violence. And then politely says no, fuck you I won't !
So all violence in the world comes from white cops? Interesting I always thought every race had evil and violence, guess the more you know
@@relax4377 With respect, I think maybe it would be good to look at the bigger picture. You live long enough , and you meet a lot of people from literally the whole world, and discover we all have one thing in common, that we don't like different people. Even animals get that way. But it's a sign of developement of every society to continuously work on this tendency, because you can't deny that every act of violence is caused by greed, and reasoned to be ok by claiming the "others" are bad. This has happened world wide, Hindus and Muslims, Chinese and Hons, Germans and Pols, Japanese and...the whole world, as well as white and black. And the only reason all these groups do these things is because someone told them to, and they do what they told you. This is undisputed. The song is not pointing fingers at anything you hold dear, it's about having the courage to say, no, I won't. Such a simple concept. Nazism was brought down by people just saying no. Communism in Russia fell because people said no. This is what the song is about.
We should get this song trending again. Some guy in the UK managed to get it to No 1 in the Charts at Christmas a few years ago. I feel with all the shit going on right now it should be our anthem. Everywhere.
THATS WHAT IVE BEEN SAYIN!!
Jamel you know I clicked on this right away. I knew you would love it, that stank face and head nod says it all! On to Bulls on Parade reaction. Thanks you so much for this reaction!
Thanks for requesting Brotha🙏🏾
Agreed...Bulls On Parade...strong message
"Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses." He's saying there's racists policing our communities. The music is amazing. The message is better.
Yeah man! When this was released I was in the early twenties and I LOOOOVED it!!! Thanks for your Reaction, and pulling me in, directly to a journey straight to youth. Im really with U, with your calmness, your open mind and your honest words over and over again. Take Care Jamal!
Rage isn’t your average band. Style of their own that’s amazing to hear.
Funk, punk, hardcore, classic rock, and rap (like Public Enemy) were huge influences on this band.
"This dude is just relentless up there." Yep...perfect analysis.
This song always gives me goosebumps, damn, they are awesome.
I saw these guys open the Lallapalooza tour 25 years ago. Absolutely amazing.
My mom is from Detroit and was influenced by the music history there. She LOVED and LOVES Rage. She saw them live 8 times, mostly in their very early days.
Jenn, 64 years old. Born and raised in the Detroit area. Grew up in the 1960's during the Motown years.
As a clueless white kid in the 80s and 90s I got most of my "education" on race from public enemy and rage against the machine. Truly great band with great lyrics behind all the rage.
Tom Morello once said he was meant to be the DJ, but with a guitar.
Your head must’ve exploded with Prophets of Rage. Mine did. If you haven’t seen them let me just say, BRUH! You better get on it. I was skeptical but the shit was lights out. I’m trying to get out to Coachella this year though RATM W/Zach.
@@hootie6226
When the Prophets of Rage album came out I listened to it for two weeks straight. Haven't done that with an album in a LONG time.
For pure mind blow value nothing will ever top being a 16 year old from the suburbs listening to Fear of a Black Planet for the first time. Before that all the rap I knew was stuff like Run DMC or Sugar Hill Gang. I listened to it a few weeks ago for the first time in years and it still hits.
Back in the 90s a friend of mine bought tickets to Rage and asked me if I wanted to go. I said yes, but later he told me he met a girl and was taking her instead.
I've still never seen them live. I hope they do an actual tour later. Festivals like Coachella are just too hard to and far away when I have young kids.
As the 74 yo dad that was raised on Hendrix, Zeppelin, Clapton et al, my sincerest to RATM for making a difference.
Kudos✅✅✅
A great blend of rock, metal rap and Funk
Hey remember back in the day Ice T had a metal band called “ Body count” haha I’m old AF for remembering this but just popped in my head and had to share lol
I still have the Body Count cassette..😂😂😂
And they still kick ass.
Body count was dope
Body Count made all our parents mad. They all thought Johnny Cash was cool for shooting a man just to watch him die though.
Porkchopz Meat they are still around and still tour.
Listen to Rage back in my teenage years. The 90s had the best music. Their music and lyrics made political sense. Shit 6/3/2020 and still dealing with the same police brutality. Especially, being someone of color. Change! We need change!
If you are referring to racial police brutality then I'm afraid you have been misinformed. Statistically speaking we don't have a serious problem with racism in our police forces. Of course if you watch a lot of the mainstream media in this country then you may get a different idea but the reality of it is that it is very uncommon and the United States is probably the least racist country in the world.
@@dudebroham4083 ??????????
History will always repeat itself...unfortunately.
@@NamisJC was that so hard to understand? I'll translate, more white people are killed every year by the police than blacks but the media does not cover it with the same zeal.
Yes sister 😘✊🏽
Oh he's rappin'...rappin' his ASS OFF. Plus Morello on guitar..my head explodes! 🤯
One of the most socially conscious bands to ever exist.
“You justify those that died
By wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites.” Now more fucking relevant than ever.
They called this shit out decades ago and here we still are
@@queenshersei896 Yeah, still blaming white people, as if we benefit from what the 1% do. They hate us both equally.
@@LadyIarConnacht blaming *racist cops
Love RATM....but their lyrics are pure political baby babble. "You justify those that died. By wearing the badge, they're the chosen whites." That's corporate media driven math tarded delusion. Internet data research has proven those lyrics over-simplified or simply false.
Rage is not a style, it’s a movement in music!
Never make classification the goal!
Edit: they are the true hybrid, timeless and essential!
I am an old rock and roller. my Son's listened to this during their teen years and I grew to love it, one of my guilty pleasures.
I just love watching you discovering them ! I'm gonna see them saturday and i canttttt wait!
their style is music that hits you in the face like a brick combined with lyrics that hit your mind like a wrecking ball into the side of a building.
Hes not rapping "a little bit" bro, he's rapping. They were a revolutionary band that created their own sound.
To be fair this one isn't as lyric-driven as a lot of their other songs, Bombtrack would be a great reaction :)
Their style is unique, rock with some rap and funk flavor thrown in, and anger! It's beautiful!
I just watched your reaction to Pearl Jam’s Jeremy and you said you prefer live performances so you can see and feel the passion. Can I suggest you watch RATM’s live version of Killing in the Name from the 1993 PinkPop festival. You won’t regret it. It’s awesome.
Never has the song been more relevant.
I disagree considering this song came out shortly after the acquittals of the cops that beat Rodney King and after the LA Riots. It's just history repeating itself, sadly.
yeah sadly it's just as relevant as it was 100 years ago..
Vaccine mandates for Big Pharma’s experimental drugs. Too bad RATM is pro mandates, now they’re Rage on Behalf of the Regime.
Their Style is called "Rage"......"Rage Against the Machine!!!!!!!!"
pink pop was great.... we created this:
Rage Against The Machine breaks the tent so hard that it creates an earthquake of no less than 1 on the Richter scale. Five years later, System Of A Down does the same. During Prophets Of Rage in 2017 there was also a lot of jumping, but there was no earthquake
Been a fan of theirs since 1996. Seen them live 3 times. Each concert was better than the last. I’m 51 and still jamming to their music and got my 15 year old daughter into them
Their music and message is more relevant today than it ever was. A quote I once read from Tom Morello
“Good music makes you want to tap your feet and get with your girl. Great music makes you want to turn over and burn police cars..... I’ve always wanted to make great music”
Zach de la Rocha was woke long before the alarm ever went off. Dude spits fire and a real message. I will be 80 and still head bopping to them. RATM forever
One of the best songs ever......the World needs more bands like this....
Their style is called Rage Against The Machine.
The Matrix movie had one of their songs in the soundtrack - Wake Up!
I just started watching your videos and I'm hooked. Your reactions are so funny sometimes, I find myself laughing out loud. "Okay!"