Rage Against the Machine – "Killing in the Name" (1992)

F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me!

F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me!

F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me!

F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me!

F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me!

F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me!

F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me!

F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me!

F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me!

F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me!

F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me!

F*ck you, I won’t do what you tell me!

I thought I had made that perfectly clear a long time ago.  But it seems that some of you didn’t take me seriously.

Believe it, boys and girls – I’m as serious as a heart attack.  I may not scream “F*CK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME” at you a dozen times like Zack de la Rocha does on today's featured record, but that doesn't mean that I'm not thinking it.

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“Killing in the Name” was inspired by the infamous Rodney King beating, which took place in 1992.

The song was released later that year on Rage Against the Machine’s eponymous debut album.  The cover of that album featured the famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a Vietnamese Buddhist monk’s self-immolation in Saigon in 1963.  (The monk was protesting the alleged persecution of his fellow Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government.)

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