Rage Against the Machine – "Down Rodeo" (1996)

The structure is set

You’ll never change it with a ballot pull

(Time will tell if the results of the recent election tend to prove or disprove that statement.)

The “Rodeo” in the title of today’s featured song refers to the famous Rodeo Drive, a luxury shopping street located in Beverly Hills, California.

Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha, who wrote the song’s lyrics, is well-known for holding far-left political beliefs.  He kicks this song off with these very uncomplimentary lines about Rodeo Drive shoppers – all of whom are affluent, and almost all of whom are white:

I’m rollin’ down Rodeo with a shotgun

These people ain’t seen a brown-skinned man

Since their grandparents bought one

Zack must really mean it because he repeats those lines a half-dozen times over the course of the song.

Click here to listen to “Down Rodeo.”

Click here to buy it from Amazon.  (I’m guessing Zach de la Rocha doesn’t shop at Amazon.)