{"id":158,"date":"2005-09-06T10:38:54","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T18:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/09\/06\/chuck-ds-post-katrina-song\/"},"modified":"2005-09-06T10:38:54","modified_gmt":"2005-09-06T18:38:54","slug":"chuck-ds-post-katrina-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/09\/chuck-ds-post-katrina-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck D’s post-Katrina song"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHUCK D. WRITES FIRST KATRINA SONG: P.E. leader voices frustration in \u2018Hell No We Ain\u2019t Alright’<\/a><\/p>\n

Chuck D got a letter from the government in 1988\u2019s \u201cBlack Steel in the Hour of Chaos.\u201d In a new song written by the Public Enemy leader last Friday, he had a letter to the government about black faces in the days of chaos following the deadly natural disaster, Hurricane Katrina.<\/p>\n

In \u201cHell No We Ain\u2019t Alright,\u201d Chuck attacks government officials, the media, the military and even the hip-hop nation, reports Allhiphop.com, adding the lyrics were written on Sept. 2, the same day Kanye West made his unscripted comments against the media and the President on live television.<\/p>\n

Courtesy of Allhiphop.com, here are the lyrics to \u201cHell No We Ain\u2019t Alright,\u201d as written by Chuck D.<\/p>\n

\u201cHell No We Ain\u2019t Alright\u201d<\/p>\n

New Orleans in the morning, afternoon, and night<\/p>\n

Hell No We Ain\u2019t Alright<\/p>\n

Now all these press conferences breaking news alerts<\/p>\n

This just in while your government looks for a war to win<\/p>\n

Flames from the blame game, names? Where do I begin?<\/p>\n

Walls closing in get some help to my kin<\/p>\n

Who cares?While the rest of the Bushnation stares<\/p>\n

As the drama unfolds as we the people under the stairs<\/p>\n

50% of this Son of a Bush nation<\/p>\n

Is like hatin\u2019 on Haiti<\/p>\n

And setting up assassinations<\/p>\n

Ask Pat Robertson- quiz him…. smells like terrorism.<\/p>\n

Racism in the news\/ still one-sided news<\/p>\n

Saying whites find food\/<\/p>\n

prey for the national guard ready to shoot<\/p>\n

\u2018Cause them blacks loot<\/p>\n

New Orleans in the morning, afternoon, and night<\/p>\n

Hell No We Ain\u2019t Alright<\/p>\n

Fires, earthquakes, tsunamis<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t mean to scare\/ Wasn\u2019t this written somewhere?<\/p>\n

Disgraces all I see is black faces moved out to all these places<\/p>\n

Emergency state, corpses, alligators and snakes<\/p>\n

Big difference between this haze and them diamonds on the VMA\u2019s<\/p>\n

We better look\/ what\u2019s really important<\/p>\n

Under this sun especially if you over 21<\/p>\n

This ain\u2019t no TV show\/ this ain\u2019t no video<\/p>\n

This is really real\/ beyond them same ole \u201ckeep it real\u201d<\/p>\n

Quotes from them TV stars drivin\u2019 big rim cars<\/p>\n

‘Streets be floodin,\u2019 B\/ no matter where you at, no gas<\/p>\n

Driving is a luxury<\/p>\n

Urgency<\/p>\n

State of emergency<\/p>\n

Shows somebody\u2019s government<\/p>\n

Is far from reality….<\/p>\n

New Orleans in the morning, afternoon, and night<\/p>\n

Hell No We Ain\u2019t Alright<\/p>\n

I see here we be the new faces of refugees<\/p>\n

Who ain\u2019t even overseas but here on our knees<\/p>\n

Forget the plasma TV-ain\u2019t no electricity<\/p>\n

New worlds upside down-and out of order<\/p>\n

Shelter? Food? Wasssup, wheres the water?<\/p>\n

No answers from disaster\/ them masses hurtin\u2019<\/p>\n

So who the f**k we call?–Halliburton?<\/p>\n

Son of a Bush, how you gonna trust that cat?<\/p>\n

To fix s**t when help is stuck in Iraq?<\/p>\n

Making war plans takin\u2019 more stands<\/p>\n

In Afghanistan 2000 soldiers dyin\u2019 in the sand<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s over there, right?<\/p>\n

Now what’s over here is a noise so loud<\/p>\n

That some can\u2019t hear but on TV I can see<\/p>\n

Bunches of people lookin\u2019 just like me\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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