| "Renegades of Funk" | ||||
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| Single by Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force | ||||
| from the album Planet Rock: The Album | ||||
| Released | 1983 | |||
| Format | 12", 33 ⅓ RPM | |||
| Genre | Electro/Hip hop | |||
| Label | Tommy Boy/Warner Bros. Records 00839 Tommy Boy/Polydor/PolyGram Records 817 888 Tommy Boy/CBS Records AP 3016 |
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| Writer(s) | Afrika Bambaataa, Arthur Baker, John Miller, John Robie | |||
| Producer | Arthur Baker, John Robie | |||
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"Renegades of Funk" is a song written by Afrika Bambaataa, Arthur Baker, John Miller & John Robie and recorded by Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force. Released in 1983 as a single on the Tommy Boy label, it was also included on the 1986 album Planet Rock: The Album. The song is an eclectic fusion of electronic music and heavy percussion, with politically fused rap lyrics that draw a connection between past revolutionaries and bohemians to present day street artists. It was produced and mixed by Arthur Baker and John Robie. Mastering was by Herb Powers Jr. It was not until 1986 until the song appeared on Planet Rock: the Album.
The song was used by the Toronto Raptors as its entrance song during home games in 2006. It is also featured as a track on the radio in the video-game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories. In 1985, the song was used in "The Maze", an episode in the first season of the television police drama Miami Vice.
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| Single by Rage Against the Machine | ||||
| from the album Renegades | ||||
| Released | 2000 | |||
| Format | CD, 7", 12" | |||
| Genre | Rapcore, funk metal | |||
| Length | 4:35 | |||
| Producer | Rick Rubin, Rage Against the Machine | |||
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In 2000, Rage Against the Machine recorded the song on its cover album Renegades. The group played it live for the first time at its reunion show at Coachella 2007. 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.[1] 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:
This version of the song is the intro music to "The Big Mad Morning Show" on 92.1 The Beat in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
"Renegades of Funk" made its live debut on April 29th, 2007, in Indio, CA, at the Coachella Music Festival.
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