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Evil Empire
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Where it sits
Second of the four Rage Against the Machine records held here. It came five years into a run that began in 1991, the same year this tree dates Rap metal from. It is one of the four records Rap metal is listed as starting from.
From Wikipedia
Evil Empire is the second studio album by the American rock band Rage Against the Machine, released on April 16, 1996, by Epic Records. It debuted at number 1 on the US Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 249,000 copies, and the song "Tire Me" won a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance; "Bulls on Parade" and "People of the Sun" were nominated for Grammys for Best Hard Rock Performance. On May 24, 2000, the album was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
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