MOST Anticipated Reaction EVER | Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name | Reaction 

Yep, the 90s were something different, no flashy influencers or idiotic trends for ad placement and money, just action, doing the right thing in the moment for no other reason than doing the right thing. Kurt Cobain also did something similar, stopping the concert to get security to kick a guy out for groping a woman.

Kurt did the same, there is a video out there. It makes me so proud and show that we were never about violence.

That's my dude.

@@ITHYANDEL Miss him. His music legacy is amazing. Stand up guy. A lot of guys from the 90s were like that, feminists and feminist allies.

That’s awesome!! And you know where he got it from? Ian MacKaye and the DC hardcore (harDCore) bands he grew up listening to. Check out the Fugazi song “Suggestion” when you get a chance. Ian wrote it after his female friend was sexually harassed. He was livid, but he also wanted to see things from her perspective as a woman who experienced this. It’s one of my favorite Fugazi songs. Men weren’t writing songs like this in the 80s, masculine hard rock songs that sought to understand and respectfully dissect a woman’s experience. This scene was (and still is) so ethical and moral in the best ways, such as treating all genders respectfully and equally, being anti-racist and anti-homophobic, standing for truth and justice in America and around the world, raising money for important social and political causes at their concerts, etc. and of course, like all the great punk bands, questioning authority and using music as a catalyst for social change. Of course, we women don’t need men to defend us all the time, although the support is definitely much appreciated. But in the 90s, we also had great riotgrrrl bands such as Bikini Kill who taught us girls to “get to the front” of the stage if we wanted and stake our claim in the pit. They also taught us to have each other’s backs as women. I am so grateful to amazing radical feminist punks like Kathleen Hanna who taught me how to stand up for myself and keep my integrity (and femininity) while doing it.

Yep, I bought it then, do you remember the BBC Radio 2 live version too? Where they censored the first few verses of the outro, but then, inevitably started screaming "F**k you I won't do what you tell me!" live! They must have known that was coming!! 🤣

Ohhh he should react to that performance- it's is so lit! 🔥

Epic

@@JenSell1626 They didn’t. They banned the video because of it’s violent imagery, as did RTÈ, the national broadcaster of the Republic of Ireland for the same reason. They played the song all the time in their various radio stations.

The parental advisory stickers made great advertisements for the kids

That was the era? Everything they put in place then still exists today. And now we’re back to banning books.

@@bobmikecong - That's what advised me to buy a majority of my albums! *laughs*

and after 9/11 no radio station would touch them w/a ten foot pole, for a loong time

@@catwilliams7538 Hahaaaaa, right???

Was Ice Tea in a police uniform/costume ? That would have been 🔥

I love this story! They lyric they're trying to make them censor is literally "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me." What on earth did they think would happen?! lol!

@@irisblue2332 if you haven't seen it, the video is available in RU-vid, just search RATM UK radio

Loved this moment!

It amazes me that they thought a band like that would be willing to censor themselves, with Zack's lyrics?

​@@SRHtheHedgehogthey didn't though. They're Brits. It's about plausible deniability. They say "please be nice. The BBC doesn't allow cussing". The artist says, "ok". Everyone did what is expected from them. The guy in the editing booth surely knew what will happen and had his finger on the button. They were probably even thinking, "how many can we let slip..."

I hope you teach them about the guy on the shirt Che Guevara. He was a maniacal murderer. All the things you pointed are a minority of issues in this country and not as widespread as it's being made to be. There is a judicial system problem above anything else that can be discussed, way above policing, that us more about power & control than race (the scapegoat distraction). But they want to distract you with their underlings, taking the focus away from the masters themselves & root problems.

Based history professor.

then i bet you're the type of teacher they'll remember in 30 years. ~tips hat~

Do you also use Sublime _April 26th, 1992_ with your students?

YES. YOU ARE AWESOME.

Saw them in '95. It was amazing! First concert ever and it was EPIC!!!!

They also made an appearance on the 2nd stage at the 1992 Lollapalooza at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre in Orange County, CA. I was there registering young voters for the 1992 US Presidential election and Senate campaigns for California. In between acts, they brought reps from each of the volunteer orgs up onto the stage to pitch their cause to the audience. I was fortunate enough to be brought up right as Rage was getting their set ready. I ended leading a chant of "Fuck Bush!" on repeat with the band members, including Zack chipping in as well. I'll never forget it. One of the most incredible moments of my life. They are the source!

That's cause it's totally underground the powers that be were against them

I saw that show in Dayton Ohio in 97, it was INCREDIBLE!!!!

He sprains his ankles alot, huh? I would've bet that you were talking about missing that concert in 2022, not 1997.

I went to the Hartford CT show and it was a sick show! Craziest concert I’ve ever been at. Wu Tang had a full line up including ODB…

​@@ami3627 25 years 😂

I went to this concert in Minneapolis and Wu Tang canceled! I was so upset. Instead we got Atari Teenage Riot.

An atheist in Alabama? Might as well identify as a unicorn. LOL! In all seriousness, I hope you have a solid community around you to keep you sane. 👍

Was in that same mosh pit. Good times, good times.

That Lollapalooza was the best band line-up EVER!

So wish I’d made it to that one, I went to Lollapalooza ‘94 and it was awesome! I was one of the teenage girls who would jump in the mosh pit too. (So happy to be able to say I crowd-surfed at a Pearl Jam concert in ‘92, age 17.) I’ve never gotten hurt, but I did have a ring pulled off my finger when it got sandwiched between two people; good thing it wasn’t very valuable, I wasn’t gonna go looking for it! 😂

this was my mom and step dad's first official date xD, my very sheltered mother was not having Rage OR the mosh pits

Tools first ep dropped in 92 as well. hell of a year for music.

A little earlier Body Counts song Cop-Killer was also inspired by the Rodney King Riots. I remember I was 16 as a guest student in an high school in L.A. and the discussion about the song was all over the media. I guess RATM were just a tiny bit late.

They were inducted in May of this year (2023).

I believe it man, not sure if I ever saw RATM, that's how it was back in the day, but my word, I have seen the Prodigy more than once and every time it was mental, absolutely off the chart.

Evil Empire is the blow up stage charted at #1 in the US when it debuted.

@@jeffreydunlap9118 [Yes. But that was on the rock charts.]

Not just April 29,1992 but so many more songs by sublime are great!

This song is 30 years old and that kid acts as if this were the early 2000s. Like, goddamn, that is ages apart.

Second this.

Thank you for articulating my thoughts so precisely! The Machine is winning and as someone who grew up in the 80’s/90’s, it’s so sad to see. The commercialisation of the underground culminating in the Woodstock disaster then 9/11 killed all impetus of the cultural revolution that bands like Rage and system could have led. The world is reverting to far right authoritarianism and it’s pretty frightening - hopefully someone starts pushing against the pendulum again.

This isn't all that accurate. I was a sophomore in HS in '92 in WI and this album was straight up word of mouth and tape trading. No radio airplay, no label support, it was all just kids passing it around and just telling each other "you gotta hear this band" for close to a year until they blew the doors off Lollapalooza in '93 as one of the lower cards. After that Killing in the Name got a radio edit that got pretty heavy radio play and their album sales finally started to take off. And it's just kept consistently selling for decades ever since. What was wild is their next album, Evil Empire, debuted at #1and it sold more copies in its first week than their debut did in its first year.

Political force to be reckoned with...powers that be are censorship... and ppl wonder why there are so many conspiracy theorists. One of those things that make you go...🤔🤔🤔🤫🫣🫢