"I believe in this band's ability to bridge the gap between entertainment and activism," declared Zack de la Rocha, whose radical politics found sympathetic muscle in Tom Morello's howling one-guitar army, making a furor unheard since the MC5 and Clash. "Killing in the Name" took on historical racism within U.S. policing, a message that remains sadly prescient, and songs like "Bombtrack" and "Wake Up" were funky fusillades that proved rap rock could change minds as well as roil arena mosh pits.
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