Artist -
Afrika Bambaataa & Soul Sonic Force 12" Single (1983) – Tommy Boy (TB 839) • A1 - "Renegades Of Funk" (Vocal) – 6:44 • A2 - "Renegades Chant" - 7:40 • B1 - "Renegades Of Funk" (Instrumental) – 6:20
CD Maxi-Single (1993) – Tommy Boy (TBCD 839) • 1 - "Renegades Of Funk" (Vocal) – 6:44 • 2 - "Renegades Chant" - 7:40 • 3 - "Renegades Of Funk" (Instrumental) – 6:20 ==Rage Against the Machine cover== In 2000, American
rock band
Rage Against the Machine recorded the song for their
cover album Renegades. In addition to lyrics by Afrika Bambaataa, it features a percussion interpolation of the
Incredible Bongo Band's piece "
Apache" and riffs from the
Cheap Trick song "
Gonna Raise Hell". The group played the song live for the first time at its reunion show at
Coachella 2007. This version of the song was the intro music to "The Big Mad Morning Show" on
92.1 The Beat in
Tulsa, Oklahoma. The music video directed by Steven Murashige was a montage of film stock-footage clips, as the band had broken up when the video was released. The montage consists mostly of funk and hip-hop music and events of the
Civil Rights movements, interspersed 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: • Chief
Sitting Bull: leader of the
Hunkpapa Sioux. •
Thomas Paine: writer. •
Martin Luther King Jr.: activist. •
Malcolm X: national spokesman for the
Nation of Islam. •
Muhammad Ali: boxer and civil rights activist. •
Paul Robeson: singer, actor, and communist activist. •
Richard Pryor: comedian. •
Gil Scott-Heron: poet and musician. • The
Last Poets: group of poets and musicians sympathetic with the
civil rights movement. •
James Brown: gospel and
rhythm and blues artist. •
Curtis Mayfield: soul, funk and
rhythm 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, and the artist who wrote and performed the song. •
Kurtis Blow: hip-hop artist,
DJ. •
Nat Turner: leader of the Southampton county slave rebellion. •
Huey Newton: co-founder of the
Black Panther Party. •
Mumia Abu-Jamal: former Black Panther Party activist and political prisoner. •
Leonard Peltier: member of the
American Indian Movement and political prisoner. •
Ernesto "Che" Guevara: communist guerilla leader. •
Stokeley Carmichael: leader of the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. •
Marcus Garvey: founder of the
Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. •
Angela Davis: activist and
Black Panther. •
Rigoberta Menchú: human rights activist and 1992
Nobel Peace Prize recipient. •
Cesar Chavez: co-founder of the
United Farm Workers. •
Susan B. Anthony: co-founder of the
National Woman Suffrage Association. •
Rosa Parks: civil rights activist. •
Whodini: hip-hop group. •
Run-D.M.C.: hip-hop trio. •
LL Cool J: hip-hop artist. •
KDAY: hip-hop radio station. •
Ice-T: hip-hop artist and leader of the metal band Body Count. •
Roxanne Shanté: hip-hop artist. •
UTFO: hip-hop group. •
Tommie Smith,
John Carlos, and
Peter Norman:
1968 Summer Olympics athletes who were the main subjects of the infamous
1968 Olympics Black Power salute. •
Boogie Down Productions: hip-hop group. •
Beastie Boys: hip-hop group. •
Salt-n-Pepa: hip-hop group. •
Eric B. & Rakim: hip-hop duo. •
MC Lyte: hip-hop artist. •
Slick Rick: hip-hop artist. •
Big Daddy Kane: hip-hop artist •
EPMD: hip-hop duo. •
Public Enemy: hip-hop group. •
De La Soul: hip-hop trio. •
Queen Latifah: hip-hop artist, singer, talk-show host, and actress. •
Tone Lōc: hip-hop artist. •
N.W.A: hip-hop group.
Track listing •
CD single Artist: -
Rage Against the Machine • "Renegades Of Funk" (Radio Edit) – 3:54 • "Renegades Of Funk" (Album version) – 4:35 ==References==