*Lyrics are a must with RATM.* Zach de la Rocha spits bars for days, always dropping knowledge. Zach is a true MC in an absolute killer band. One of the greatest live acts I've ever experienced...and I've been to hundreds and hundreds of concerts. Enjoy this fantastic rabbit hole
@@TheWatcher818 RATM/Wu-Tang 97 Tour was my first show(it was completely Bonkers) and caught the Gangstarr 99 show as well... It's been 23 yrs since the last time I saw them. I got tix for Rage/ RTJ at MSG in August since they both canceled their Boston Calling spot. It actually works out better as MSG is easily my favorite venue. I'm super pumped!!
Agree with everything you said but I would change one word. Zach de la Rocha... always dropping IGNORANCE. Commies almost never reach the right conclusion about the failure and misery they see around them.
RATM were one of the first heavy rock bands to effectively blend a genuine hip hop vibe into their music. They have some great songs of their own but also recorded cover versions of hip hop classics (Cypress Hill - How I could just kill a man, Eric B & Rakim - Microphone fiend, Afrika Bambaata - Renegades of funk) in their own style. If you want to react to some more RATM, I recommend "Take the power back" and "Down rodeo".
I personally think they’re one of the only ones to master it. Maybe bc they have actual brown ppl in their band. But RATM was amazing bc they got a bunch of white suburban kids to bop to songs with revolutionary, anti imperialist messages. I was raised by an activist parent in the LGBTQ+ community, but there was so much I didn’t know bc my moms didn’t know it; we’d all been failed by our educational system that taught history from a male, Anglo, land owners perspective. Being a poor 80’s-90’s kid I didn’t have much access to computers or internet till the 00’s and Rage taught me info I had no other access to. My mom had been an anti racist, anti war, gay activist with a genius IQ and who could read 300 pages in 2hrs, but didn’t know about the race massacres, or even that much about stonewall. We were missing the history of blk ppl, immigrants, women, the working class & poor, indigenous ppls, LGBTQ+ ppl, radical socialists & communists who had a major impact on our country,etc. I was raised in the gay community and their was a real dearth of knowledge on gay history. Before the internet was what it is today, (or affordable) a lot of the more “subversive” but true American history was hard to find. Rage really was a gateway to even more radical, revolutionary thought.
Have there been others that have done it? None at RATM's level or even remotely close. I guess guys like kid rock and limp bizkit kinda tried to do it and had some crappy, albeit popular, songs. But they're just nowhere even close to RATM's level.
Keep googling, especially with RATM. Back when this came out, I didn't have Google, so I went to the library to figure out some of these references... my mind was blown by what I learned. When RATM released their first album, there wasn't anyone else that sounded like them. Rap/rock fusion was very very rare, and nothing hit as hard as them. Add in the fact that these guys are highly educated in politics and economics, and had a guitarist who spent endless hours exploring all the possible sounds he could make with his guitar...and we received one of the most unique bands created. Although they've influenced many other musicians, there's still nothing else quite like them.
Fantastic write up an kudos to you for taking the time to explore references you weren't familiar with. Respect! I hope you had the opportunity to see them live, they are incredible live.
Rage Against the Machine songs you guys should listen to: Calm Like a Bomb, Bullet in The Head, Maggie's Farm, Pistol Grip Pump, The Ghost of Tom Joad, Bombtrack, and Down Rodeo. Just a few tracks from RATM to get cha started. Enjoy your birthday weekend!!
It’s actually not nameless. When bands release an album like that it’s considered self-titled. The name of the band is the name of the album. But you’re right, it is an incredible album. Every single song is great. Plus, Tom Morello won “Most Innovative Guitarist of the Year” for his killswitch technique. Plus they are very close with the band Tool. Some of them were roommates. That’s why Maynard James Keenan does a feature on “Know Your Enemy” and has performed it live with Rage a few times.
Definitely checkout "killing in the name of" next. Tom Morello has an amazing guitar tone. He even scratches on the guitar like he's playing turn tables.
Wake Up Freedom and Bombtrack are another 3 great tracks by them. Killing in the name is their most succesfull song but its more "comercial", those 3 are more deeper
you don't know how much i appreciate the fact that you google the lyrics and try to find/understand the messages behind it. Not every song is meant to be looked into like that, but songs like these _definitely_ are! Wish more reactors would do the same
I feel like she’s always vibing with the music and then you cut in to talk about a bar you liked and she has a moment of 😳 trying to contribute when she definitely didn’t hear what they said 😂
Suggestion… when you listen to RATM, pull up the lyrical videos. It will help both of you truly catch the power of the lyrics and messages, keep up the reactions to RAGE 🔥🔥
Wish they would get back together. This world we live in has given them endless material to write to. Please react to more. And keep Googling. Deep messages in all their songs. And Happy Belated Birthday.🎂
For their self entitled album (of which this song is from) "no samples, keyboards or synthesizers used in the making of this record" was included in their liner notes.
I hope you start to react to more Rage. Please react to lyric videos so you can see that Zack not only has a crazy flow but he teaches a class on untold history on every song. Tom (guitar), Tim (bass) and Brad (drums) deliver the hardest, funkiest and innovative music to match the fire Zack drops. Their music and especially their message is still 100% relevant. Please react to Wake Up, Take the Power Back, Mic Check, Roll Right. Thanks for the reaction.
You do you. Appreciate the fact you take the time to look into lyrics and the band details unlike most other reaction videos. Tom Morello is beast on guitar🤘🤘🤘His signature sounds are epic. These guys were killer in concert! Been a while. Brings back great memories 🤘🤘🤘🤘
I saw Rage with wu tang clan in Hartford…man they f’d that place up, that was the last time they were ever allowed to play there…kids ripped up the whole lawn and burned the fences in bonfires…people wearing plastic trash cans trying to climb the lawn as kids pelted them with sod chunks…backpack slides down the muddy grass less lawn…ahhhh the memories…you can google search that concert it made the news for destruction…lol
“Don’t gotta burn the books, they just remove them” All about the military industrial complex. Hasn’t changed in America since the industrial revolution.
if you want deep meaning with RATM, you should listen their song ''wake up'' and pay close attention to the lyrics, so many things to unpack... from the shaolin monk in 66, to MLK, Malcom X, the media, etc... still so relevant to this day...sadly...
Know Your Enemy, Guerilla Radio, Sleep Now in the Fire, Voice of the Voiceless, Freedom, People of the Sun... The list is long with good Rage songs. I'd probably recommend lyric videos, though.
ONE OF MY FAVORITES ALL TIME YO KNOW YOUR ENEMY SLEEP NOW IN THE FIRE TOWNSHIP REBELLION BOMBTRACK NO SHELTER KILLING IN THE NAME (Just a Tune Flip Remix) BULLET IN THE HEAD GUERILLA RADIO
Basically rally round the family means to protect the family with a pocket full of shells shotgun shells, get it this guy’s Hardcore and our gift of them
Take The Power Back, Know Your Enemy, Wake Up, Guerilla Radio, and Down Rodeo are some more absolutely funky high energy head-bangable songs with crazy deep messages. As others have likely mentioned, lyric videos are best for RATM. All of their songs are politically charged and Zach de la Rocha is a masterful lyricist.
Know Your Enemy, Wake Up, Down Rodeo, Use lyric videos for these songs please, two other songs to react to "Bullet in the head" live 1993, and "Fistful of Steel" live 1993
More RATM, please. With lyrics. :) A few recommends: Bullet In the Head, Down Rodeo, Testify, Know Your Enemy, Take the Power Back. Btw, appreciate you googling, too. Thank you & best birthday wishes to you! :)
Zach de la Rocha (vocals) of RATM is a true MC... his lyrics are very militant and politically charged to take on whoever is in power and abuses the people they are supposed to serve. Tom Morello (guitars) is like a DJ on the instrument... and the rhythm section of Timmy C (bass) & Brad Wilk (drums) is one of the finest in rock music today 🤘🤘🔥🔥
*There's a good number of really great RATM songs. To name some, try; Testify__Bullet In The Head__Killing In The Name__Sleep Now In The Fire__Know Your Enemy__Bombtrack__Down Rodeo__....and many more.*
Trying to understand Rage, is like finding the thing inside you that makes your head wake up the minute you hear it. When you KNOW... you KNOW FOREVER! 😎 And you have NO IDEA YET! 💯
3:05 they're criticizing republicans/conservatives. Rally around the family refers to their whole thing about "family values" blah blah blah, which was particularly common in the reagan era...and pocket full of shells refers to gun shells...because they often support going to war or arming groups in other countries to go to war.
This is a song about the "5 Sided Fistagon" aka the Pentagon, U.S. Military Command Center, and their massive spending. The government is not helping people in need, "Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes, not need." Meaning, we could be helping people and improving their quality of life but our Defense spending takes food out of our people's mouths. The taxes that buy those weapons keep us impoverished "War Cannibal Animal". We lock people up in jail, we don't fund schooling. If people are uneducated, they're easier to control. "Rally round the family, pocket full of shells."
" They use force and fear to get you too comply. They rally around the family, with a pocket full of shells. So, we rally round tha family with a pocket full of shells" 😉. All rage songs are this good. Guerilla Radio, lyric version. ✊🏽✊🏻✊✊🏿
Zack, Tom, Tim, and Brad were not and do not eff around. Listen to what that man wrote and saying then think about right now. RATM doesn't have to write another fricking word ( but I wish they would) because what they were saying back then was true then and is true today and getting worse. And I quote from their song, "I walk the corner to tha rubble that used to be a library Line up to the mind cemetery now What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin' They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em"
This is another rabbit hole of awesomeness. They’re a great band.
They are. And all of their songs are good. But for me, Bulls on Parade and Killing in the Name Of are just on another level.
@@jeffburdick869 killing in the name of is bad ass
*Lyrics are a must with RATM.* Zach de la Rocha spits bars for days, always dropping knowledge. Zach is a true MC in an absolute killer band. One of the greatest live acts I've ever experienced...and I've been to hundreds and hundreds of concerts. Enjoy this fantastic rabbit hole
@@TheWatcher818 RATM/Wu-Tang 97 Tour was my first show(it was completely Bonkers) and caught the Gangstarr 99 show as well... It's been 23 yrs since the last time I saw them. I got tix for Rage/ RTJ at MSG in August since they both canceled their Boston Calling spot. It actually works out better as MSG is easily my favorite venue. I'm super pumped!!
Agree with everything you said but I would change one word. Zach de la Rocha... always dropping IGNORANCE. Commies almost never reach the right conclusion about the failure and misery they see around them.
@@TheWatcher818 🤣🤣🤣
@@nuketheswamp7774 the more you suck up to them the more they walk over you. That's why we rage
I'm going to see them TOMORROW at Madison Square Garden!!! ✊🏻
RATM were one of the first heavy rock bands to effectively blend a genuine hip hop vibe into their music. They have some great songs of their own but also recorded cover versions of hip hop classics (Cypress Hill - How I could just kill a man, Eric B & Rakim - Microphone fiend, Afrika Bambaata - Renegades of funk) in their own style. If you want to react to some more RATM, I recommend "Take the power back" and "Down rodeo".
I personally think they’re one of the only ones to master it. Maybe bc they have actual brown ppl in their band. But RATM was amazing bc they got a bunch of white suburban kids to bop to songs with revolutionary, anti imperialist messages. I was raised by an activist parent in the LGBTQ+ community, but there was so much I didn’t know bc my moms didn’t know it; we’d all been failed by our educational system that taught history from a male, Anglo, land owners perspective. Being a poor 80’s-90’s kid I didn’t have much access to computers or internet till the 00’s and Rage taught me info I had no other access to. My mom had been an anti racist, anti war, gay activist with a genius IQ and who could read 300 pages in 2hrs, but didn’t know about the race massacres, or even that much about stonewall. We were missing the history of blk ppl, immigrants, women, the working class & poor, indigenous ppls, LGBTQ+ ppl, radical socialists & communists who had a major impact on our country,etc. I was raised in the gay community and their was a real dearth of knowledge on gay history. Before the internet was what it is today, (or affordable) a lot of the more “subversive” but true American history was hard to find. Rage really was a gateway to even more radical, revolutionary thought.
@@Comrade_mommy Yawn
Rap metal is what theyre called.
Have there been others that have done it? None at RATM's level or even remotely close. I guess guys like kid rock and limp bizkit kinda tried to do it and had some crappy, albeit popular, songs. But they're just nowhere even close to RATM's level.
@@jeffburdick869 Limp Bizkit had some good songs, but not many. I'd say Linkin Park came closest to how good RATM was.
Awesome. The guitar player of this band is one of those monsters who really created something different playing the guitar. Greetings from Brazil.
Keep googling, especially with RATM. Back when this came out, I didn't have Google, so I went to the library to figure out some of these references... my mind was blown by what I learned.
When RATM released their first album, there wasn't anyone else that sounded like them. Rap/rock fusion was very very rare, and nothing hit as hard as them. Add in the fact that these guys are highly educated in politics and economics, and had a guitarist who spent endless hours exploring all the possible sounds he could make with his guitar...and we received one of the most unique bands created. Although they've influenced many other musicians, there's still nothing else quite like them.
Fantastic write up an kudos to you for taking the time to explore references you weren't familiar with. Respect! I hope you had the opportunity to see them live, they are incredible live.
Rage Against the Machine songs you guys should listen to: Calm Like a Bomb, Bullet in The Head, Maggie's Farm, Pistol Grip Pump, The Ghost of Tom Joad, Bombtrack, and Down Rodeo. Just a few tracks from RATM to get cha started. Enjoy your birthday weekend!!
Their nameless debut is one of those epic 'no skips' records
It’s actually not nameless. When bands release an album like that it’s considered self-titled. The name of the band is the name of the album. But you’re right, it is an incredible album. Every single song is great. Plus, Tom Morello won “Most Innovative Guitarist of the Year” for his killswitch technique. Plus they are very close with the band Tool. Some of them were roommates. That’s why Maynard James Keenan does a feature on “Know Your Enemy” and has performed it live with Rage a few times.
@@frankiek2269 I stand corrected :)
Definitely checkout "killing in the name of" next. Tom Morello has an amazing guitar tone. He even scratches on the guitar like he's playing turn tables.
Tom Morello pick-scraping the guitar strings to sound like a turntable. This song was the hardest when I was growing up.
Wake Up Freedom and Bombtrack are another 3 great tracks by them. Killing in the name is their most succesfull song but its more "comercial", those 3 are more deeper
I absolutely love when Mrz Recklezz makes a comment and then smiles at the camera. 😀😀😀
The singer, Zach De la Rocha does a few tracks with Run the Jewels. Real stuff. Check out their tracks Close Your Eyes and Ju$t
I've been on the rage bandwagon since their first cd in 1992. Good choice 👌
you don't know how much i appreciate the fact that you google the lyrics and try to find/understand the messages behind it. Not every song is meant to be looked into like that, but songs like these _definitely_ are! Wish more reactors would do the same
Their records don't due them justice. They're 100x better live!!!
You have to do down rodeo Zach de la Rocha underrated one of the best lyricist of all time
I feel like she’s always vibing with the music and then you cut in to talk about a bar you liked and she has a moment of 😳 trying to contribute when she definitely didn’t hear what they said 😂
Suggestion… when you listen to RATM, pull up the lyrical videos. It will help both of you truly catch the power of the lyrics and messages, keep up the reactions to RAGE 🔥🔥
Now we are talking!! This is what matters humans.
Hit up some early Rakim.. my melody, microphone fiend, you got it “soul”..
Jody watley and Eric b and rakim “friends”..
"Know your enemy" and "Killing in the Name" are 2 of my favorites.
Wish they would get back together. This world we live in has given them endless material to write to. Please react to more. And keep Googling. Deep messages in all their songs. And Happy Belated Birthday.🎂
They are touring together right now, but no word on new material
Gotta check out RATM "know your enemy"
Kings of Leon:
* Closer
* Waste a Moment
* Supersoaker
* California Waiting
* Wait for Me
So glad you guys got here. You will see this a hundred times, but let me add my two cents worth: Listen to "Down Rodeo" with the lyrics.
For their self entitled album (of which this song is from) "no samples, keyboards or synthesizers used in the making of this record" was included in their liner notes.
RATM best song is "Know your enemy" IMO. I'd recommend reacting to the lyric video, as the lyrics are so on point.
I hope you start to react to more Rage. Please react to lyric videos so you can see that Zack not only has a crazy flow but he teaches a class on untold history on every song. Tom (guitar), Tim (bass) and Brad (drums) deliver the hardest, funkiest and innovative music to match the fire Zack drops.
Their music and especially their message is still 100% relevant.
Please react to Wake Up, Take the Power Back, Mic Check, Roll Right.
Thanks for the reaction.
rage hit hard from day one! People of the Sun!
RATM is one of the few in this genre i like very well. Mixing metalrock with rap, it fits well.
You do you. Appreciate the fact you take the time to look into lyrics and the band details unlike most other reaction videos.
Tom Morello is beast on guitar🤘🤘🤘His signature sounds are epic. These guys were killer in concert! Been a while. Brings back great memories 🤘🤘🤘🤘
I saw Rage with wu tang clan in Hartford…man they f’d that place up, that was the last time they were ever allowed to play there…kids ripped up the whole lawn and burned the fences in bonfires…people wearing plastic trash cans trying to climb the lawn as kids pelted them with sod chunks…backpack slides down the muddy grass less lawn…ahhhh the memories…you can google search that concert it made the news for destruction…lol
Yes! More RATM!
killing in the name of is a really good song thats my favorite song by them
“Don’t gotta burn the books, they just remove them”
All about the military industrial complex. Hasn’t changed in America since the industrial revolution.
Morello makes every single scratching sound live, its wild!
Killing in the name of... Is a must.
Killing in the name of. Testify 🔥🔥❤️❤️
This kinda reminds me of that song that says you want it all but you can have it
if you want deep meaning with RATM, you should listen their song ''wake up'' and pay close attention to the lyrics, so many things to unpack... from the shaolin monk in 66, to MLK, Malcom X, the media, etc... still so relevant to this day...sadly...
Rage is a rabbit hole I always enjoy going down. Have fun!
Know Your Enemy, Guerilla Radio, Sleep Now in the Fire, Voice of the Voiceless, Freedom, People of the Sun... The list is long with good Rage songs. I'd probably recommend lyric videos, though.
You gotta do killing in the name by them next . Classic
Listen to "Down Rodeo", "Know Your Enemy". Shit actually anything off their first two albums. It's fire
She's doing an awesome job at sittin' still while listening to Rage... that's not easy thing to do.
You googling questions is honestly one of the best things.
Edit: also, a bunch of their songs are in video games
ZACH IS THE TRUTH. 🔥🔥🔥 Oh ya you 2 are the TOP! Great Reaction! 👍👍👍
This was high school for me when this came out when the 90s rock music was peeking
React to RATM - Know Your Enemy
Definitely do your Googling with RATM, and check out Wake Up! Find out why it was chosen for the Matrix soundtrack.
ONE OF MY FAVORITES ALL TIME YO
KNOW YOUR ENEMY
SLEEP NOW IN THE FIRE
TOWNSHIP REBELLION
BOMBTRACK
NO SHELTER
KILLING IN THE NAME (Just a Tune Flip Remix)
BULLET IN THE HEAD
GUERILLA RADIO
First hearing this song when I had guitar hero still bangs to this day
Basically rally round the family means to protect the family with a pocket full of shells shotgun shells, get it this guy’s Hardcore and our gift of them
Take The Power Back, Know Your Enemy, Wake Up, Guerilla Radio, and Down Rodeo are some more absolutely funky high energy head-bangable songs with crazy deep messages. As others have likely mentioned, lyric videos are best for RATM. All of their songs are politically charged and Zach de la Rocha is a masterful lyricist.
Love you guys any rage against the machine song is killer ....there's no filler...... I suggest "Know your enemy" next.
The mid-video Googling is part of it, we’re here for it my guy. Dig deep
Sleep Now in the Fire & Guerilla Radio absolutely raise hell
RATM is the BEST! Check out the live version of Freedom. Check out what the songs about. The passion is ERYTHING!!!
Know Your Enemy, Wake Up, Down Rodeo, Use lyric videos for these songs please, two other songs to react to "Bullet in the head" live 1993, and "Fistful of Steel" live 1993
Always loved their sound and I can understand their messages while I don't completely agree with it. They're definitely worth listening to more.
I will definitely watch all the reactions you post of RATM.
i’d play this song all night on guitar hero just to listen to it lol
Tom Morello is a genius always writing the music I'm thinking 😮
More RATM, please. With lyrics. :) A few recommends: Bullet In the Head, Down Rodeo, Testify, Know Your Enemy, Take the Power Back. Btw, appreciate you googling, too. Thank you & best birthday wishes to you! :)
2:17... greatness acquired.
Ladies and Gentleman, they are about to go down the rage rabbit hole.
Zach de la Rocha (vocals) of RATM is a true MC... his lyrics are very militant and politically charged to take on whoever is in power and abuses the people they are supposed to serve. Tom Morello (guitars) is like a DJ on the instrument... and the rhythm section of Timmy C (bass) & Brad Wilk (drums) is one of the finest in rock music today 🤘🤘🔥🔥
Waiting for the RATM concert which has been delayed 2 years due to covid. They were peaking when I was in college.
Bout time. My favorite song, period
3:03 "I think it's shells" haha 😇
I’m not going to a lie what a gorgeous looking couple or married couple just gorgeous ❤
Love me some Rage❤❤❤
It’s dope seeing folk check out shit that so many of us grew up jamming 🔥
Down Rodeo is one of my faves but they are so brilliant its hard to pick to be honest
*There's a good number of really great RATM songs. To name some, try; Testify__Bullet In The Head__Killing In The Name__Sleep Now In The Fire__Know Your Enemy__Bombtrack__Down Rodeo__....and many more.*
lyrics are a must for RATM
Trying to understand Rage, is like finding the thing inside you that makes your head wake up the minute you hear it.
When you KNOW... you KNOW FOREVER! 😎
And you have NO IDEA YET! 💯
Next RATM you should do is "Township Rebellion" Keep up the good work 👏🏽 & Cry, Luv the New hair doo 🤘🏼 Take care you 2 😎🤘🏼
So many great songs, Freedom, Down Rodeo, Killing In The Name, etc. Definitely check out some more.
you gotta drive deep.....all bangers
FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Checkout more Rage for sure going down a rabbit hole with them.
3:05 they're criticizing republicans/conservatives. Rally around the family refers to their whole thing about "family values" blah blah blah, which was particularly common in the reagan era...and pocket full of shells refers to gun shells...because they often support going to war or arming groups in other countries to go to war.
Good choice y'all 👍😎ccr and rage mash up give it a listen 👍❤️🌎✌️
Back to my high school years. I'm glad you try to get the message also, great band, amazing message.
know your enemy by rage 🔥
Y’all definitely gotta see sleep now in the fire -rage against the machine
Arguably the best lead singer of all time
This is a song about the "5 Sided Fistagon" aka the Pentagon, U.S. Military Command Center, and their massive spending. The government is not helping people in need, "Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes, not need." Meaning, we could be helping people and improving their quality of life but our Defense spending takes food out of our people's mouths. The taxes that buy those weapons keep us impoverished "War Cannibal Animal". We lock people up in jail, we don't fund schooling. If people are uneducated, they're easier to control. "Rally round the family, pocket full of shells."
" They use force and fear to get you too comply. They rally around the family, with a pocket full of shells. So, we rally round tha family with a pocket full of shells" 😉.
All rage songs are this good.
Guerilla Radio, lyric version.
✊🏽✊🏻✊✊🏿
Zack, Tom, Tim, and Brad were not and do not eff around. Listen to what that man wrote and saying then think about right now. RATM doesn't have to write another fricking word ( but I wish they would) because what they were saying back then was true then and is true today and getting worse.
And I quote from their song, "I walk the corner to tha rubble that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetery now
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin'
They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em"
Bulls on parade is a analogy of police attacking the mass of protestants like bulls did on antic Seville's parade
Don't know if you've heard Black Sabbath-War Pigs,it's a proper song considering whats happening in Ukraine right now.
React to papoose five fingers of death
thanks for doing this one!
Rage against the machine is an awesome band
Check out “Freedom” by RATM tbh the first album is a masterpiece
MORE RAGE.
I believe this is on one of the Guitar Hero games.
This was the song you played in Guitar Hero 3 after you beat the Tom Morello boss battle lmao. If you played that game you facts know this song.