Rage Against The Machine - Renegades of Funk

'Renegades of Funk' is RATM's cover of hip hop pioneer Afrika Bambaataa's original from 1983, the original video is included at the bottom of this post so you can watch it in all its 1980's glory!

Rage Against the Machine - Renegades of Funk

Rage's version, released in 2000, part of their covers album, Renegades, released after Zach De La Rocha's departure, prior to the Audioslave years with Chris Cornell. This powerful version is much more imposing than the original thanks to Tom Morello's massive guiter power-riff.

A fitting homage to early 'renegades' who many owe so much, featured in the video, like Sitting Bull, Martin Luther King Jr and other musical pironeers, themselves renegades of funk like George Clinton, Grandmaster Flash and others considered heroes to millions, Che Guevara, Cesar Chavez, Black Panthers, who stuck it to the man, that evil, evil oligarchy - the U.S. Government.

With more recent icons featured, like Public Enemy and De La Soul, leading up to a great infectious ending - Jam sucka, groove sucka, dance sucka, move sucka.

Coming from a different place geographically, musically, socially and in time, this video is great props to decades of great music.

Poppin', sockin', rockin' puttin' a side of hip-hop