With the news frequently seeming like one big Rage Against The Machine song, has there ever been a better time for Tom Morello to take a dive into his band’s rebellious anthem Killing In The Name? Good news: that’s just what he’s done, in a chat with Rolling Stone. He explains not only where the track’s incendiary ‘Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me’ statement comes from, but also how the song itself was written. “‘Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me’ is a universal sentiment,” he explains. “While it’s a simple lyric, I think it’s one of [Zack de la Rocha’s, singer] most brilliant. And to me, it relates to [19th century U.S. abolitionist] Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass said that the moment he became free was not the moment that he was physically loosed from his bonds...
