Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal
I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetery now
There was just another thread where people were talking about how many Gen Xers have gone full MAGA, but Rage is a quintessential Gen X band. Wtf happened
I remember reading interview with some old rock & roll musician and he said something like "people keep asking me why I'm not as rebellious anymore and I'm like 'dude, I'm 50 and I have kids now. It's your generation's turn to rebel'". So yeah, Zach is 55 now...
I mean, he did do that one song with RTJ not that long ago and stuff, I more meant I wish he'd done some solo rap after Rage. Obviously dude had a lot of valuable shit he was getting done and I get why he didn't, I just like his rap a lot and think it would have been really nice to have more of him doing straight hip hop. Oh well.
Zach did his last album when he was about 30. Sure maybe it's too late now, but I really want to know what was actually going on with him in the 00s. Some people even suspect three letter agency involvement, and TBH that sounds about as likely as any other explanation.
I think being in a band like RATM had to be really strange. You're screaming as loud as you can about rotten system while at the same time getting rich thanks to this system. You know that fame helps you spread your message but at the same time it's contrary to everything you're preaching. I wouldn't be surprised he simply gave up and left.
27 Comments
protist@mander.xyz · 65 pts · 346d
Weapons, not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal
I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetery now
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 346d
The fact that every single RATM song is applicable 30 years later has shown that humans are not capable of governing themselves effectively.
protist@mander.xyz · 24 pts · 346d
There was just another thread where people were talking about how many Gen Xers have gone full MAGA, but Rage is a quintessential Gen X band. Wtf happened
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 346d
People are awful.
Always have been.
Always will be.
(Until we go extinct.)
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 346d
The Machine started paying people's bills and they thought "Well maybe it's not so bad..."
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 346d
We do certainly live in a society
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 346d
Most people aren't actually rebels, and many of those who are, are just mad that the status quo isn't fascist enough.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 346d
They will remain applicable until the evil empire collapses.
cnlwhs@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 346d
Capitalist realism...
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 346d
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive and movin'
0ops@piefed.zip · 13 pts · 346d
We don't have to burn the books, we just remove 'em
while arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells.
Rally 'round the family!
Pocket full of shells!
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 346d
That verse rocks so hard.
The way he spits out "cannibal animal I"
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 346d
I wish Zach de LA Rocha did more stuff :(
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 14 pts · 346d
I remember reading interview with some old rock & roll musician and he said something like "people keep asking me why I'm not as rebellious anymore and I'm like 'dude, I'm 50 and I have kids now. It's your generation's turn to rebel'". So yeah, Zach is 55 now...
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 346d
I mean, he did do that one song with RTJ not that long ago and stuff, I more meant I wish he'd done some solo rap after Rage. Obviously dude had a lot of valuable shit he was getting done and I get why he didn't, I just like his rap a lot and think it would have been really nice to have more of him doing straight hip hop. Oh well.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 346d
Didn't he have that one project, one night as a lion or something?
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 346d
Pretty sure that was just the one EP ...
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 346d
Zach did his last album when he was about 30. Sure maybe it's too late now, but I really want to know what was actually going on with him in the 00s. Some people even suspect three letter agency involvement, and TBH that sounds about as likely as any other explanation.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 3 pts · 346d
I think being in a band like RATM had to be really strange. You're screaming as loud as you can about rotten system while at the same time getting rich thanks to this system. You know that fame helps you spread your message but at the same time it's contrary to everything you're preaching. I wouldn't be surprised he simply gave up and left.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 14 pts · 346d
The microphone explodes, shattering the molds
artifex@piefed.social · 8 pts · 346d
Who on earth downvoted this masterpiece?
slaacaa@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 346d
Probably the same people who are mad that RATM got political
(aka media literacy = 0)
SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 346d
Absolutely. Saying "Rage against the machine got political" is like saying "water got wet"
margaritox@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 346d
I think there’s an extra chicken in the 2nd line.
djehuti@programming.dev · 4 pts · 345d
Disagree
margaritox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 344d
I actually checked and you may be right.
jade52@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 346d
High quality post
Jakule17@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 344d