Songfacts®:

• Some Rage Against The Machine songs have specific targets, others are lyrical shotgun blasts, taking aim at oppression and injustice in general and calling for action. "Roll Right" fall into the later category.
  
  The band hoped that listeners would get interested in activism through their songs, and in the liner notes to the album, they included an extensive reading list for anyone looking to dive deeper. Books on that list include:
  
  Animal Farm by George Orwell
  A New Society: Reflections for Today's World by Che Guevara
  Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
  Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1 by Karl Marx
• Like many Rage songs, this one has a line that's forcefully repeated:
  
  Roll right! Roll call!
  And now we're alright, we're all calm!
  
  Lead singer Zack De La Rocha didn't often explain these, so it's open to interpretation. It probably doesn't mean moving to the right ideologically.
• The line, "Send 'em to the seventh level!" is a reference to Dante's nine levels of hell. The seventh level is where warmongers went.
• The song is part of Evil Empire, RATM's second album. It went straight to #1 when it was released in 1996, as did their next one, The Battle Of Los Angeles in 1999. The band, though, would often rage against each other, and they broke up in 2000. They staged two reunions but neither resulted in new music.