"Testify" Rage Against the Machine (2000)

Though Rage Against the Machine's album The Battle of Los Angeles came out in the tail end of '99, "Testify" was released as a single during the subsequent summer where it became embroiled in the U.S. election. The Michael Moore-directed music video hammered home the similarities between Bush and Gore while ending on a Ralph Nader quote: "If you're not turned on to politics, politics will turn on you." But it's the song's lyrics about Baghdad burning, legless boys and "Mass graves for the pump" that prove most disquieting considering the then-coming Iraq War. "Testify," Zach de la Rocha presciently chanted, "It's right outside your door."