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"Renegades of Funk" is a music track written and released as a single on the Tommy Boy label by Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force in 1984. It was originally produced and mixed by Arthur Baker and John Robie, and was rereleased on a CD in 1993. The song is an eclectic fusion of electronic music and heavy percussion, with politically fused rap lyrics that draw a connection between past revolutionaries and bohemians to present day street artists. This was also used by the Toronto Raptors as their entrance song during home games in 2006.

"Renegades of Funk"
Single by Rage Against the Machine
from the album Renegades
Released	2002
Format	CD, 7", 12"
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	4 min 35 s
Producer(s)	artist Rick Rubin
Rage Against the Machine singles chronology
"The Ghost of Tom Joad" (2001)	"Renegades of Funk" (2002)	"How I Could Just Kill a Man" (2002)

In 2000, Rage Against the Machine recorded the song for their cover album Renegades. The video clip produced by Steven Murashige was a montage of film clips, mostly of rap, funk and hip-hop music and events of the Civil Rights movements, interspersed with mixed media stills of these individuals the song implies are 'renegades':

• Chief Sitting Bull: leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux.
• Thomas Paine: writer.
• Martin Luther King: activist.
• Malcolm X: national spokesman for the Nation of Islam.
• Muhammad Ali: boxer.
• Paul Robeson: singer.
• Richard Pryor: comedian.
• Gil Scott-Heron: poet and musician.
• The Last Poets: group of poets and musicians with sympathies to the civil rights movement.
• James Brown: gospel and rhythm and blues artist
• Curtis Mayfield: soul, funk and rhythm and blues artist
• Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band: funk band
• Sly and the Family Stone: rock band
• George Clinton: funk artist.
• Parliament Funkadelic: Funk music collective
• DJ Kool Herc: Hip-hop pioneer.
• Grandmaster Flash: Hip-hop artist, DJ.
• Afrika Bambaataa: DJ, Bronx community leader.
• Kurtis Blow: hip-hop artist, DJ.
• Nat Turner: leader of the Southampton county slave rebellion.
• Huey Newton: co-founder of the Black Panther Party.
• Mumia Abu-Jamal: convicted for murder.
• Leonard Peltier: member of the American Indian Movement; convicted for murder.
• Che Guevara: guerilla leader.
• Stokeley Carmichael: leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
• Marcus Garvey: founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League.
• Angela Davis: Black Panther.
• Rigoberta Menchu: human rights activist and 1992 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
• Cesar Chavez: co-founder of the United Farm Workers.
• Susan B Anthony: co-founder of the National Woman's Suffrage Association.
• Rosa Parks: civil rights activist.
• Whodini: hip-hop group
• Run-DMC: hip-hop group
• LL Cool J: hip-hop artist
• KDAY: hip-hop radio station
• Ice T: rapper
• Roxanne Shante: hip-hop artist
• UTFO: rap group
• Boogie Down Productions: hip-hop group
• Beastie Boys: hip-hop group
• Salt 'n' Pepa: rhythm and blues and hip-hop group
• Eric B. and Rakim: hip-hop duo
• MC Lyte: hip-hop artist
• Slick Rick: rapper
• Big Daddy Kane: rapper
• EPMD: hip-hop group
• Public Enemy: hip-hop group
• De la Soul: hip-hop group
• Queen Latifah: rapper
• Tone Lōc: hip-hop artist
• NWA: gangsta rap group

Part of the song was featured in "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "Angry White Boy Polka" on his album Poodle Hat.

1. "Renegades of Funk [Radio edit]"
2. "Renegades of Funk [Album Version]"