Analysis of the song "testify" by rage against the machine.

Rage Against The Machine: Testify

Rage Against The Machine (Rage) consisted of four members. Lead vocalist and claimwriter Zack de la Rocha and guitarist Tom Morello are the nearly politic tout ensembley active of the group. Morellos father was a member of the Mau Mau freedom fighter army that freed Kenya from British colonial rule, while his mother is a founding member of Parents for Rock and Rap, an anti-censorship group. De la Rochas mother holds a Ph.D. in anthropology, while his father was a member of Los Four, a group that depicted Chifannyo history through pictures. It appears that de la Rochas father, who had a nervous breakdown, was religiously demanding, requiring that Zack embrace the Bible in all parts of his life. This may, at least in part, explain the groups apparent(a) disdain for organized religion. The band released four separate albums, convinced(p) numerous live and specialty releases, prior to their break up.

The song I chose to study is Testify off their third LP The battle of Los Angeles. Like most of Rage Against the Machines songs, this one talks a lot about capitalist avaritia. In this particular song, Zack de la Rocha is showing how capitalist greed leads to a loss of life. This can be seen in the lines The car is our wheelchair, my witness your coughing.



Oily privacy mocks the leg less, now traveling in coffins.

The capitalist greed for oil and the rush for oil that has led to numerous wars is similarly described in the lines. The pipeline is gushing, while here we harp in tombs, and mass graves for the pump and the price is set. Marx himself was instead clear about the fact that capitalism breeds greed.

Rage Against the Machine withal addresses the medias role in hate and warmongering and the...

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