"Year of tha Boomerang" is a song by American rock band Rage Against the Machine. It originally appeared in the film and on the soundtrack of Higher Learning in 1994 and was eventually included on their second studio album, Evil Empire (1996). On the back of the soundtrack, the song is called "Year of the Boomerang". Although the track was released as a promotional radio CD single, it was never given a domestic release.
The track was re-recorded and included on their second studio album, Evil Empire in 1996. The spelling of the track was then altered to "Year of tha Boomerang". The same spelling is used in the Evil Empire liner notes and lyrics to every song for nearly every instance of the word.
The Higher Learning and album versions are slightly different. While the original version has a more prominent bass and hip-hop feel, the Evil Empire version's guitars are mixed significantly heavier.[according to whom?]
In 2019, supporters of the QAnon movement co-opted "Year of tha Boomerang" to assert that the lyrics support the agenda of the movement's leader and allude to former President Barack Obama's citizenship, even though the song and the band's lyrics as a whole are considered left-wing, and the fact the song was released in 1994, fourteen years before Obama was elected president.[1]
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