- Renegades of Funk
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Name = Renegades of Funk
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Artist =Afrika Bambaataa andSoulsonic Force
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Released =1984
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Genre = Electro/Hip hop
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Label = Tommy Boy
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Producer =Arthur Baker
John Robie
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Misc ="Renegades of Funk" is a song written and recorded byAfrika Bambaataa andSoulsonic Force . Released in1984 as a single on the Tommy Boy label, it was also included on the1986 album "". The song is an eclectic fusion ofelectronic music and heavy percussion, with politically fused rap lyrics that draw a connection between past revolutionaries andbohemian s to present day street artists. It was produced and mixed by Arthur Baker and John Robie."Renegades of Funk" was used by the
Toronto Raptors as their entrance song during home games in 2006. It is also featured as a track on the radio in "" and "Jet Grind Radio ".Rage Against the Machine cover
Infobox Single | Name = Renegades of Funk
Artist =Rage Against the Machine
from Album = Renegades
Released = 2000
Format = CD, 7", 12"
Genre =Alternative rock ,rap rock
Length = 4 min 35 s
Producer = artistRick Rubin
Last single = "The Ghost of Tom Joad"
(2001)
This single = "Renegades of Funk"
(2002)
Next single = "How I Could Just Kill a Man "
(2002)|In
2000 ,Rage Against the Machine recorded the song for theircover album "Renegades". They played it live for the first time at their reunion show at Coachella 2007. The music video produced bySteven Murashige was a montage of film stocked footage clips, as the band had broken up when the video was released. The montage consists mostly of rap, funk and hip-hop music and events of theCivil Rights movements, intersperced with live footage of the Los Angeles Phantom Street Artist Joey Krebs spray painting his infamous Outline Silhouettes of Figures mixed with media stills of individuals the song implies are renegades:
* ChiefSitting Bull : leader of theHunkpapa Sioux .
*Thomas Paine : writer.
*Martin Luther King : activist.
*Malcolm X : national spokesman for theNation of Islam .
*Muhammad Ali : boxer.
*Paul Robeson : singer.
*Richard Pryor : comedian.
*Gil Scott-Heron : poet and musician.
* TheLast Poets : group of poets and musicians with sympathies to thecivil rights movement.
*James Brown : gospel andrhythm and blues artist
*Curtis Mayfield : soul, funk andrhythm and blues artist
*Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band : funk band
*Sly and the Family Stone : funk band
* George Clinton: funk artist.
*Parliament Funkadelic :Funk music collective
*DJ Kool Herc : Hip-hop pioneer.
*Grandmaster Flash : Hip-hop artist,DJ .
*Afrika Bambaataa :DJ ,Bronx community leader.
*Kurtis Blow : hip-hop artist,DJ .
*Nat Turner : leader of the Southampton county slave rebellion.
*Huey Newton : co-founder of theBlack Panther Party .
*Mumia Abu-Jamal : former Black Panther Party activist
*Leonard Peltier : member of theAmerican Indian Movement .
* Ernesto "Che" Guevara: guerilla leader.
*Stokeley Carmichael : leader of theStudent Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
*Marcus Garvey : founder of theUniversal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League .
*Angela Davis : Black Panther.
*Rigoberta Menchu : human rights activist and1992 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
*Cesar Chavez : co-founder of theUnited Farm Workers .
*Susan B Anthony : co-founder of theNational Woman's Suffrage Association .
*Rosa Parks : civil rights activist.
*Whodini : hip-hop group
*Run-DMC : hip-hop group
*LL Cool J : hip-hop artist
*KDAY : hip-hop radio station
*Ice T : rapper
*Roxanne Shante : hip-hop artist
*UTFO : rap group
*Tommie Smith ,John Carlos andPeter Norman :1968 Summer Olympics athletes
*Boogie Down Productions : hip-hop group
*Beastie Boys : hip-hop group
*Salt 'n' Pepa :rhythm and blues and hip-hop group
*Eric B. and Rakim : hip-hop duo
*MC Lyte : hip-hop artist
*Slick Rick : rapper
*Big Daddy Kane : rapper
*EPMD : hip-hop group
* Public Enemy: hip-hop group
*De la Soul : hip-hop group
*Queen Latifah : rapper
*Tone Lōc : hip-hop artist
* NWA:gangsta rap groupWeird Al Yankovic cover
Part of the
song was featured in"Weird Al" Yankovic 's song "Angry White Boy Polka " on his album "Poodle Hat ".Tracklist
#"Renegades of Funk [Radio edit] "
#"Renegades of Funk [Album Version] "
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