Zack de la Rocha Inducts Patti Smith at the 2007 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

Zack de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine Inducts Patti Smith at the 2007 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
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[@youngsuit]

to even get Zack to make a public appearance, let alone a speech at an event like this, speaks volumes of the respect he has for this legend.

[@youngsuit]

@@ApplzAndHoney because he cares more about others than himself

[@martyleyeti]

I'm not even sure he's even given one interview in 25 years

[@Broochiere]

Oh shut up​@@ApplzAndHoney

[@seanokane522]

Zack is a king

[@sweepthelegjohnny1490]

sal

[@mikrickmiko4838]

shut down the devil sound!

[@vini-hs3vq]

Mestre

[@marnatural7748]

❤❤💋😍😍😍😍✊✊✊✊👑👑👑

[@manyplanets]

You mean HYPOCRITE????

[@bgvideo100]

This is one of the most beautiful speeches I've ever heard

[@25yomama]

Zack really is a very well spoken young man

[@hickyy4886]

Bro he's nearing 40 in this video

[@derekmartin2054]

He also has a Masters degree in English so it makes sense

[@beefsupreme694]

And?

[@sly_tendencies87]

Zach is a beautiful soul.

[@djdedeo0]

I've listened to a lot of music. Zack is one of the..if not the best lyricists of my time.

[@scaryhours2220]

I agree I think he is the best.

[@davildom13]

I agree too.

[@marnatural7748]

Exactly!!👍👏✊✊✊✊👊💪❤❤❤😍

[@feddomeijerwiersma6955]

Arguably the greatest MC ever. GOAT.

[@jt.8144]

Yeah but the topic here is Patti Smith. LMAO.. sadly you're just limited to Zack.

[@stocks7765]

even if he would be reading the telephone book for 12 hours,I would still listen for 12 hours

[@TheSakebomb1]

Love Zack since I was 15. Best rapper of all time.

[@zackzallie8735]

Zack!! The king inducting the Queen!

[@arianprofit]

Rage members give the best inductions

[@rubaidaallen2764]

Yes. Tom and Zack 🔥🔥🔥

[@johnschannelonyoutube]

Awesome darn speech!

[@susanafernandes8654]

LOVE LOVE and LOVE this man and She ! God bless true artists.

[@hestonblumenthal14]

❣❣🎤 🌹

[@hestonblumenthal14]

@@susanafernandes8654 i know it's surprising of a reply. How are you doing today?

[@thethinkerer]

Seeing her on the sidelines like that had me realize she wasn't "fearless" so much as brave.

[@marlaafalcon]

México and Zack! 🇲🇽❤️

[@salamecas5293]

his family is from Sonora mex

[@calinasalgado3621]

This is such a great speech! I always come back to this video because of how incredible he presented.

[@hestonblumenthal14]

❣❣🎤 🌹

[@peggydavis4964]

Time Patti Smith was inducted!! Fantastic lady a different music artist not a media made or media hit with great history in music & poetry & good lifestyle & life

[@yougottabekiddingme2027]

Zack come Back,Please

[@RICHBLACKCOCK]

i dig that PATTI hung out with JIMI HEDRIX at the opening of ELECTRIC LADY STUDIO in August 1970!

[@dawnatilla]

She was pretty moved by this...

[@scottpierce68]

I don't always agree with his politics, but do two individuals ever always agree on anything? Zack De La Rocha is a treasure, an artist, a muse and a shining light in the darkness of the burned out American dream. I'm not religious but amen brother.

[@rubaidaallen2764]

Beautifully, beautifully said. I saw Rage this week live and my goodness, I cried it was so fn beautiful.

[@beefknuckles]

Thats a very beautiful sentiment thank you for writing that comment. You are very eloquent

[@terrillmel]

That was amazing.

[@hestonblumenthal14]

❣❣🎤 🌹

[@bamabelle7847]

Damn this is beautiful ❤️

[@carlJohnson-un5ng]

Killing in the name of that's my favorite song forever ✨✨❤

[@azraelsangels156]

I've been nonstop listening to music but mainly been working on my own music

[@shendysitohang2810]

dapper looking Zach

[@TisTheDamnStickSeason]

Imagine having this absolute God inducting you into the hall of fame

[@wetwhistlinwillyjohnson5743]

A commie? Nah.

[@OIJMIO]

@@wetwhistlinwillyjohnson5743 LMAO

[@feddomeijerwiersma6955]

GOAT MC and lyricist. Criminally underrated.

[@stagnation293]

@@wetwhistlinwillyjohnson5743 loves having Mr Beast feed, house, and clothe the poor instead of his government. If a social media personality isn't helping them, Willy wants your poor to remain on the streets and starving.

[@queenicolumbo4857]

Zach! ♡♡♡

[@hestonblumenthal14]

❣❣🎤 🌹

[@hestonblumenthal14]

@@queenicolumbo4857 i know it's surprising of a reply. How are you doing?

[@markwarrensprawson]

Separated from Zac by space and time, viewing his image and listening to his voice over a recording already years old now, I can feel the honour he's invested into his speech for her and what she did for modern culture and it is dizzying. Firkin;-A, man. Awesome as.

[@jimward6586]

I was more emotional about patty Smith, than the beatles

[@O_Towne_Bear]

@Chris Cipollini I hope you're referring to Patty Smyth the one hit wonder from the 80s who married John McEnroe.

[@havenlane992]

Let's not start a war ok? Leave the beatles out of it

[@Niko3387Y]

@@havenlane992 lol

[@vr4runner]

Wtf is patty smith…

[@CherryBombTips]

Zack marry me.

[@marnatural7748]

Im in love Zack!!✊✊✊✊❤😍❤😍😍

[@shaggydog9789]

Don’t think that’s going to happen, Zack is rather well known for not doing what you tell him to do…

[@CherryBombTips]

@@shaggydog9789 😂 It's a joke. I'm the same, I never do what people tell me to do. Solo and free 🤘🤟

[@christianjosephkarner]

I could not imagine Zac not screaming in anger. 🤨

[@idfk9578]

*Zach

[@p1ysaucedo]

@@idfk9578 Zack*

[@craigwalker7693]

That’s a bad man right there ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻

[@kuhakugaming420]

After all these years listening to RATM, i couldn't differ what Zach is. A rapper or a singer.

[@tyfahlman]

Shows up for her and not for RATM lol gotta love it

[@winfieldritzert2176]

Bravo!

[@runitback2back]

What an induction

[@johnunderwood3132]

She lived in s jersey 2 min from my neighborhood. She was across from the old ho down hall.

[@davidtalbot9325]

Can you imagine being a musician who considers themselves socially relevant or revolutionary, and hearing Patti Smith for the first time? You would either quit, or be absolutely emboldened. Patti Smith, The Chambers Brothers, The Clash, Stiff Little Fingers...these are impossible acts to follow.

[@mikeobrien6704]

That's the first time that I've heard Zack speak like a thoughtful and polite young man. He isn't screaming in your face about the injustices caused by corporate greed and puppet politicians!

[@azuredivina]

thank goodness for someone screaming about it.

[@alexismerlo4521]

And? You don’t have to be thoughtful and polite to be educated and intelligent. I’m glad he’s screaming in everyone’s faces. His band is named Rage Against The Machine, ffs. If you can’t tell that people are multidimensional, that’s on you.

[@greg6162]

His music is an expression like any other band. That’s the beauty of music, it’s your’s, sometimes you have to scream to be heard when you have a message that you feel need’s to be heard. Clearly enough people feel the same or he wouldn’t be standing where he is. If you listen to his lyric’s you can tell he’s articulate and has the vocabulary to match. Hearing music isn’t always the same as listening and I’m glad he didn’t dilute his music because the message made some people uncomfortable. Sure he screams on stage, but he isn’t the first or the last. It’s just he did it in his genre. Remember how out spoken Lenon was? Talking about American politics and the war in Vietnam and he wasn’t even American… yet a lot of people still listened

[@HavendaleBlvd80]

I'm confused as to why Zack skipped out on Rage's induction after seeing this.

[@jayk5323]

I find it fascinating to see how nervous/uncomfortable he is making a short speech in front of what most would consider a "friendly" crowd. His hand quiere while holding his notes, and he repeatedly has to lick his lips due to having a dry mouth, yet he goes out in front of a crowd of a 100k and owns the stage with his own very personal art work. I'm not looking down on anyone, not calling anyone out or even implying it's a bad thing. Just something I noticed and found interesting.

[@arktos298]

Without the torrid and tumultuous events of two decades, the music and art inspired by, what some romanticize about, were born of violent and saddening choices that music and art we cherish would have never been created.

[@HAL_9000__]

But he won’t show up to Rage’s induction!? WTF Zack??

[@zackzallie8735]

That shows his humbleness.

[@tomislavamalenica3976]

❤

[@rockinmama007]

Niceness.

[@maggie9312]

Zack is a really smart guy love him

[@hestonblumenthal14]

❣❣🎤 🌹

[@JHTY-fq4vl]

what is this jacket !? so nice

[@rpm324]

Zack has something to say

[@Broochiere]

🤙🔥

[@ralphieralph9176]

can´t believe that paper shaking like that...must be parkinsons..because I cant imagine Zack with a sickness like that..watch as he leans hish and on the table when he get up there, talking about Patty Smith...either HE´s nervous, because of his love for Patty..or someone else made him read all that..I´d say it´s his love for what´s Patty´s done.. I love Zack..that´s what I know...

[@djdedeo0]

Social anxiety

[@leeanndoan7002]

Public speaking is terrifying as hell. He's nervous.

[@rosswatkins2277]

Oh snap the CORPORATE RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE

[@alfredouribe472]

4T.AMLO TIGRES DEL NORTE LOPEZ OBRADOR 😄💖💗🧡

[@AarosConcerts]

Glad he could show up to this but not his own induction 🙄

[@gandolin66]

Without rage he is a friendly guy😮 not the impressive stage animal. However, I like both sides of him.

[@Diangelo-l1o]

Where is Rage now? 2023😂😂😂

[@undergrad5527]

Top 2 vocalist of all time 1 Zach de la rocha 2 Freddy mercury

[@KevinThunder7]

Thumbs down people lost there soul lol

[@Niko3387Y]

True

[@regortex3364]

“Too threatening for radio”, wow powerful words, like singers are like totally like dangerous and stuff. They like, have like, the power to change the world and $tuff, right?

[@krismaitland7885]

Fearless in life but looked like she was shitting herself out the back of stage😂

[@tashaduplessiszwar6950]

;)

[@hestonblumenthal14]

❣❣🎤 🌹

[@ret_nuh]

damn.. wish it was less ironic

[@ret_nuh]

HOW DOES HE NOT REALIZE HES THE SHOW!? FUCK THEM ALL

[@MsRandom303]

It's interesting that Zack chose abandoning the church as a metaphor, considering his abusive Jesus freak father swore him off religion for life. (I don't blame Zack. There are things my abusers swore me off for life too!)

[@hestonblumenthal14]

❣❣🎤 🌹

[@ljr869]

Should have stayed in the band.

[@joelspringman7748]

The only problem that I have is that, in truth, Jesus died for *everyone's* sin, and it's sad that some people don't see that. Patti, I *adore* you, and I hope to see you in Heaven. PLEEEASE don't reject God's offer. I want to see you in that joyful place!

[@havenlane992]

Go take your 💊

[@jedi_knight_PhD]

Amen brother!

[@germaredipprnaar6264]

Jesus definitely didn't die for mine

[@TisTheDamnStickSeason]

Fear is your only god

[@marnatural7748]

😈😈😈😆😆?????

[@jarronhaleysorrell]

Did he get his jab ?????

[@jimparis5073]

I fuckin doubt it

[@redkinsley4251]

Who gives a flying fuck? If you get it you aren’t special. If you don’t you aren’t special.

[@time4477]

The “ jab “ will help to stop the pandemic 😷 Not getting the Jab Will keep the pandemic 😷 As annoying as the media can be about exploiting covid for sensationalism It’s not getting the jab that gives the media power to keep their brainwashing going Get the jab and stop giving them a reason to talk about it

[@jedi_knight_PhD]

Wouldn’t surprise me if he did. Makes you wonder how much the song “killing in the name” really means to him?

[@balohna]

@@jedi_knight_PhD What does writing an anti-police anthem have to do with whether or not you're willing to take a vaccine? It was never a song about "I will never do anything I'm told", lol. It's a song about not trusting or complying with police.

[@notyetskeletal4809]

Adam Sandler in a wig.

[@louisdang8477]

I was thinking Ari Schaffer

[@Dannyboyy86]

Thought it was Bob Dylan's mexican son

[@TheJbhmetal]

Why does he always sounds like he has so much saliva in his mouth?

[@drpacman9996]

Zack is a shill

[@akgfilming]

No? He's by far the most effective and pragmatic of the band

[@drpacman9996]

@@akgfilming that doesn’t not make him a shill

[@havenlane992]

Wtf is de la Rocha and Patti Smith doing at this stupid ceremony, I mean come on!

[@Cootiequeen]

Why are you here? To say this?

[@blt4life112]

​@@CootiequeenI'm happy to see someone said it.

[@blt4life112]

What does Springsteen have to do with it?

[@base99498]

Zack is a clown

[@martinajusic5424]

Leave Zack alone,you are big clown

[@HDitzzDH]

That's a pretty strong objection, what did Zack do to you?

[@macadoo2530]

​@@HDitzzDHprobably mad that hes an intelligent liberal .

[@myshirtisonbackwards62]

Like you

[@IhaytFukkingsocialmedia]

patti smith is amazing

[@destinygardner7032]

Run for president

[@gabix7488]

There's enough communists countries Door open to Venezuela