| Rage Against the Machine – Down Rodeo Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Who else but Zack De la Rocha could deliver a verbal jab to both rap and capitalism in the same line. "Fuck tha G ride, I want the machines that are makin' em." No one ever speaks out criticising the capitalist excesses that rap music endorses, but that line obviously alludes to it. Unlike the rap world that forgets about the poverty that it came from and focuses on owning as many cars and wearing as much jewelry as you can, Zack's form of "rap" deals with more important issues. Instead of having that powerful lower class anger subdued by the empty promises of material wealth and upward mobility, he focuses on the means of production and how to take them back. |
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| Rage Against the Machine – Without A Face Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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This is a great example of Rage lyrics at their finest. The song's about an illegal Mexican immigrant working in the US to send money back home to his family. The lyrics are fucking amazing in this song. "I jack for Similac, fuck a Cadillac" refers to not even being able to think about owning a car and having to steal for something as basic as baby formula. One of my favorite lyrics of all time is "It's my life for their life, so call it a free trade." Free trade referring to a free market or capitalist economy, but he uses word play to point out that the immigrant is trading his life to keep his family alive (at the same time pointing out that illegal immigrants, as well as lower class people, remain in poverty in order to maintain class systems that keep capitalist societies afloat). Pure fucking genius. |
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