{"id":2448411,"date":"2019-09-06T08:25:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=880944"},"modified":"2019-09-06T08:25:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T14:25:29","slug":"prophets-of-rage-tackle-mass-shooting-epidemic-in-pop-goes-the-weapon-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/prophets-of-rage-tackle-mass-shooting-epidemic-in-pop-goes-the-weapon-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Prophets of Rage Tackle Mass Shooting Epidemic in \u2018Pop Goes the Weapon\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/pop-goes-the-weapon-rage-.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/prophets-of-rage\/\" id=\"auto-tag_prophets-of-rage\" data-tag=\"prophets-of-rage\">Prophets of Rage<\/a> provide a harrowing look at the mass shooting epidemic in America in the supergroup\u2019s new video for \u201cPop Goes the Weapon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video catalogs every incident of gun violence in America in 2019 thus far, beginning January 1st in Tallahassee through the September 2nd shooting in Alabama where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/09\/03\/us\/alabama-residence-shooting\/index.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a 14-year-old boy murdered his family<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGuns are both the subject of religious worship AND huge profits in the United States,\u201d Tom Morello said in a statement. \u201cCombined with emboldened white nationalism the recent epidemic of massacres is little surprise. \u2018Pop Goes The Weapon\u2019 channels our \u2018thoughts &amp; prayers\u2019 through Marshall stacks &amp; microphones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For two-and-a-half minutes, each incident scrolls down the screen like end credits, with some accompanied by the newspaper headline describing the shooting and juxtaposed by images of assault rifles in use. At video\u2019s end, following the song\u2019s conclusion, the victims\u2019 names scroll on a silent black screen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSee I\u2019m numb just lookin\u2019 \/ For a reason for my finger \/ To be squeezing on the trigger \/ Through another killin\u2019 season,\u201d Chuck D and B-Real trade lines on the track. \u201cOne gun two gun three guns four \/ So many guns keep on runnin\u2019 out the store.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>B-Real added in a statement, \u201c\u2018Pop Goes The Weapon\u2019 reflects the ongoing gun violence happening in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPop Goes the Weapon\u201d marks Prophets of Rage\u2019s second new track of 2019, following \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/prophets-of-rage-new-song-made-with-hate-851588\/\">Made With Hate<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/prophets-of-rage-pop-goes-the-weapon-video-guns-shootings-880944\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prophets of Rage provide a harrowing look at the mass shooting epidemic in America in the supergroup\u2019s new video for \u201cPop Goes the Weapon.\u201d The video catalogs every incident of gun violence in America in 2019 thus far, beginning January 1st in Tallahassee through the September 2nd shooting in Alabama where a 14-year-old boy murdered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 10:09:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}