Tire Me

The song Tire Me, with its 3:00 runtime, is featured on Rage Against the Machine's second album, titled Evil Empire. This work, released on April 16, 1996, arrived nearly four years after their 1992 self-titled debut. The album's name, Evil Empire, echoed a term that President Ronald Reagan and other conservatives used to refer to the Soviet Union. However, from the band's socialist perspective, the designation pointed to the United States itself. The album had an immediate impact, debuting at number one on the Billboard Top 200 chart.

Although Tire Me never had a music video, nor was it released as a standalone physical single, nor did it receive radio airplay, the song achieved significant recognition by winning a Grammy Award in 1997 for Best Metal Performance. The track made its live debut on April 29, 1994, at Cal State in Carson, California, featuring some lyrical variations from the album's final version. At the Pinkpop Festival that same year, before performing Tire Me, Zack de la Rocha mentioned that the song celebrated the death of Richard Nixon. On the recording of Evil Empire, Caram Costanzo and Clay Harper handled the engineering, while the mixing was done by Andy Wallace. The production was a collaboration between Brendan O’Brien and the band itself.