Genius Meanings
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Rage Against the Machine – New Millennium Homes
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[Verse 1] / Hungry people don't stay hungry for long / They get hope from fire and smoke as the weak grow strong / Hungry people don't stay hungry for long / They get hope from
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Rage Against the Machine – War Within a Breath
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[Verse 1] / Every official that comes in, cripples us, leaves us maimed / Silent and tamed / And with our flesh and bones, he builds his homes / Southern fist, rise through the
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Rage Against the Machine – Maria
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The song tells the story of an illegal Mexican immigrant named Maria coming to America for a better life. Instead, she’s forced to work like a slave, stripped away from her culture
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Rage Against the Machine – Testify
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The song is a call to action: it’s up to ordinary people to call out the injustice that is happening, “right outside your door,“ in spite of government & media attempts to pacify
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Rage Against the Machine – Guerrilla Radio
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[Verse 1] / Transmission, third World War, third round / A decade of the weapon of sound above ground / No shelter if you're looking for shade / I lick shots at the brutal charade
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Rage Against the Machine – Ashes in the Fall
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The entire song is a critique of modern capitalism and neo-liberal policies like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which have devastated the economy of Mexico over
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Rage Against the Machine – Calm Like a Bomb
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Calm Like A Bomb is the sleeper hit of the album. It got by purely through radio play, having no music video or release as a single.
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Rage Against the Machine – Mic Check
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[Intro] / Oh, wait a minute now / Huh-huh / Come on / Oh, wait a minute now / Check / [Verse 1] / To the Young R to the E, the B to the E, the L / Never give up, just live up / Fed
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Rage Against the Machine – Born as Ghosts
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[Verse 1] / The hills find peace, locked armed guard posts / Safe from the screams of the children born as ghosts / Gates, guns and alarms shape the calm of the dawn / Peering down
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Rage Against the Machine – Sleep Now in the Fire
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“Sleep Now in the Fire” is the fifth track from the 1999 album The Battle of Los Angeles by the band Rage Against the Machine. It was released as a single on November 4, 1999. The
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Rage Against the Machine – No Shelter
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“No Shelter” is a single by Rage Against the Machine that appeared in the soundtrack to the 1998 Godzilla movie, and was the bonus track of the Australian release of their album
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Rage Against the Machine – Born of a Broken Man
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A very personal song that Zack De La Rocha wrote about his father. Beto De La Rocha was a member of Los Four, a very influential group of Chicano artists.
Beto tried to build
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Rage Against the Machine – Voice of the Voiceless
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This song is about Mumia Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther, political activist and radio host hailing from Philadelphia.
In 1982, Abu-Jamal was convicted and sentenced to death
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Michael P. Williams – Steel and Pure Logic (Excerpt from "Chrono Trigger")
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Excerpt from Michael P. Williams’s nonfiction book about the classic time-traveling RPG Chrono Trigger.
Michael P. Williams’s book delves deep into connections between Crono’s
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Genius Lists – Songs Based on Historical Events
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This Genius project helps connect music to historical events
Many times, we listen to a song, not ever knowing it was based on an actual event in history. The list includes a very
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Wu-Tang Clan (Ft. Cappadonna) – Triumph
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An epic posse cut featuring all nine members of the Wu-Tang Clan (plus Cappadonna), from their second album Wu-Tang Forever.
“Triumph” was the first single, and along with its
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Sublime – April 29, 1992 (Miami)
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April 29, 1992 was the day that riots formed in Los Angeles after 4 LAPD officers were acquitted for use of excessive force on Rodney King. The song takes place on the day of the
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MF DOOM – Hoe Cakes
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The second track off the MM…FOOD album makes use of some pretty sick beatboxing throughout.
“Hoe Cakes” (spelled “hoecakes”) is an African American food from the 19th century
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Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights
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“Wuthering Heights” was released as Kate Bush’s debut single and lead single from her debut album, The Kick Inside (1978). The song rose to #1 on the UK Singles Chart, knocking
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Rob Zombie – Living Dead Girl
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[Intro] / Who is this irresistible creature who has an insatiable love for the dead? / Living Dead Girl! / [Pre-Verse] / "What are you thinking about? / What are you thinking about
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Travie McCoy (Ft. Bruno Mars) – Billionaire
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“Billionaire” is a song by Travie McCoy with additional vocals from Bruno Mars, from his debut studio album, Lazarus. The song portrays what McCoy and Mars shall do if they became
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Lil Uzi Vert – Run It Up
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On “Run It Up,” Philadelphia rapper Lil Uzi Vert delivers an ode to his constant pursuit of money. The rapper boasts about his exorbitant wealth and implores his competition to try
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Star Wars – Episode VII: The Force Awakens
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Just as it seemed Star Wars was over with six movies, Disney bought Lucasfilm and announced they were making an Episode VII. The result was 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Marcel Proust – An afternoon party(Chap. 3)
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CHAPTER III / AN AFTERNOON PARTY AT THE HOUSE OF THE PRINCESSE DE GUERMANTES
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Playboy (Ft. James Hetfield, Jason Newsted, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich & Metallica) – Metallica Interview
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PLAYBOY: You spent much of last year fighting Napster. Now it's gone into business with BMG and is changing from a free service to a pay service. Is the threat over? Or will a
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Sean Paul – Temperature
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A classic, Temperature rocked 2005 by peaking at number one in multiple countries and went platinum twice. Sean Paul fuses his Jamaican dancehall roots with a pop smash to create
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Robert C. Tucker – The Marx-Engels Reader (Chapter 4)
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Society and Politics in the Nineteenth Century / Speech at the Anniversary of the People's Paper
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James Joyce – Ulysses (Chap. 14 - Oxen of the Sun)
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OXEN OF THE SUN
TIME: 10.00 pm.
SCENE: The National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street.
ORGAN: Womb
ART: Medicine
COLOURS: White
SYMBOL: Mothers
TECHNIQUE: Embryonic development
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