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Zack de la Rocha was born Jan. 12, 1970, in Long Beach- California. Parents Roberto and Olivia. After parents parted ways, de la Rocha initially split his time between his Mexican-American father. A muralist in the group (Los Four), and his German-Irish mother- a doctoral candidate at the University of California, After his father began to exhibit signs of mental illness, destroying artwork and praying and fasting nonstop, Zack de la Rocha lived exclusively with his mother in Irvine. In the 1970s the Orange County suburb was nearly all white.Zack de la Rocha told Rolling Stone magazine in 1999 how humiliated he felt when his teacher used the racially offensive term “wetback” great his classmates laugh. “I remember sitting there about to explode. …show more content…

In high school he formed the band Hard Stance, serving as vocalist and guitarist for the group. After that, de la Rocha launched the band Inside Out in 1988. Signed to the Revelation Records label, the group came out with an EP called No Spiritual Surrender. Despite some industry success, the group’s guitarist decided to leave and Inside Out disbanded in 1991. After the band inside out was over Zack de la Rocha went into Hip-hop to be a Freestyle rapper at nightclubs. One night when Tom Morello walked into the club when Zack Rocha was up rapping, after Zach’s performance, Tom approached Zack. The two men found that they both espoused radical political ideologies and decided to share their viewpoints with the world through song. In Fall 1991, they formed rap-rock band Rage Against the

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