The Legends Of Music on Instagram: "Rage Against The Machine performing “Killing In The Name” Live at the 1993 Pinkpop Festival Before Rage Against The Machine got their start as a band Tom Morello was a guitar teacher in LA and during one specific lesson he accidentally wrote the guitar riff to this song while giving a student a lesson in drop D tuning. The next day the band rigorously worked on the song. From a lyrical standpoint Zack De La Rocha chants the line “Fuck you, I won’t do what you