I'll Rage Against YOUR Machine!
"Bring that shit in! Uggh!
Yeah the movement's in motion with mass militant poetry
Now check this outÂ…uggh!"
These are the opening lyrics to one of Rage Against the Machine's most popular songs. All of their lyrics were written by their vocalist, Zack de la Rocha, an angry Chicano American from Orange County. He was born on January 12, 1970 in Long Beach, California to Beto and Olivia de la Rocha. When Zack was barely a year old, Olivia separated from Beto because of their differences in religious ideals. Olivia moved away from Beto in Long Beach to study for her PhD in Anthropology at The University of California's campus in Irvine. Beto was a well known Chicano artist, and a founding member of the political art group the "Los Four", who were most well known for their work on the early Chicano mural movement, which included the blunt slogan at the bottom of each of their works "Chicano art existe!" or "here we are!" (ZDR Network).
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