Does anyone else find that these guys were a true set of revolutionaries in your life? I foudn that they really changed my opinion on thigns, I now worship Zack de la rocha. I find that he is a true renegade(no pun intended) Rage Against the Machine Homepage Tom morello, is one of my most favourite guitarist, and if you listen to the songs, de la rocha is a frekain genious/excellent songwriter. he pours emotion into his songs, and you cna feel it in the rest of the instrumentation. Bullet in the Head, Bulls on Parade, Killing in the Name of, Know your Enemy, Renegades of Funk, Guerilla Radio. for me these guys pioneered political funk rock. unfortunately my parents are that fond of it. i must tell you that it does include some coarse language. my fav. lyrics by them:
No escape from the mass mind **pe
Play it again jack and then rewind the tape
Play it again and again and again
Until ya mind is locked in
Believin' all the lies that they are tellin' ya
Buying all the products that they are selling ya
They say jump
Ya say how high
Ya brain dead
Ya gotta f**k*n' bullet in your head
it really is genious. then guerilla radio: Contact I highjacked the frequencies
Blockin the beltway
Move on DC
Way past the days of bombin MCs
Sound off Mumia guan be free
Who gottem yo check the federal file
All you pen devils know the trial was vile
Army of pigs try to silence my style
Off em all out that box its my radio dial and of course calm like a bomb: I was born landless
Yes its tha native son
Born of Zapatas guns
Stroll through the shanties
And tha cities remains
Same bodies buried hungry
But with different last names
The vultures robbin everything
Leave nothing but chains
Pick a point on the globe
Yes tha pictures tha same
Theres a bank, theres a church, a myth and a hearse
A mall and a loan, a child dead at birth
Theres a widow pig parrot
A rebel to tame
A whitehooded judge
A syringe and a vein
And the riot be the rhyme of the unheard and last but not least know your enemy: Something must be done
About vengeance, a badge and a gun
cause Ill rip the mike, rip the stage, rip the system
I was born to rage against em
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Now I got no patience
So sick of complacence
With the d the e the f the I the a the n the c the e
Mind of a revolutionary
So clear the lane
The finger to the land of the chains
What? the land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy?
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Theyre the teachers who taught me to fight me
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission
Ignorance, hypocrisy, brutality, the elite
All of which are american dreams (8 times) just so powerful, i grew up with these guys, and now i think im tainted. Zack is my hero. post on RATM, anything..just keep it cool