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Hell No, We Ain't Allright
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Public Enemy
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People are dying.
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They don't have homes.
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They don't have jobs.
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The city of New Orleans will never be the same
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Now let's get off your asses and let's do something
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and let's fix the biggest goddamn crisis in the history of this country
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Guess it gotta come down to this.
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In order to see things for what they are and what they is.
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We still may not be free up in this piece or treated very equally as
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far as I can see. now if you saw what I saw
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And see what I see on the TV that lead me to write this song
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after talking to my father.
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But the anger in this song seem to write it's damn self...
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Hell No We Ain't Alright
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(It's your boy Son of a Bush. Hahaha.)
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Now all these press conferences and breaking news alert [this just in]
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While your government looks for a war to win.
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Claim for the blame game, names where I begin
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Walls closin, need to get some help to my kin
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While the rest of this Bush nation stands
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the drama unfolds as we the people under the stand
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Fifty percent of this Son of a Bush nation
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is like hatin on hatin aspect of assassination
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Ask Pat Robinson, quiz him
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[Smells like terrorism]
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Racism in the news, still one sided views.
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Sayin whites find food
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Pray for the National Guard who be ready to shoot
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because they be sayin us blacks loot
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New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and night
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(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright!)
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New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and night
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(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright!)
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New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and night
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(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright!)
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New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and night
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(Hell no!) Damn damn.
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"Neva bada than" - "Bring the Noise"
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Now them violence is quick, tsunamis, I don't mean to scare
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Wasn't this written somewhere?
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Disgraces, all I been seein is hurtin black faces
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Moved out to harm in far away places
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[Emergency] statements, corpses, alligators, and snakes
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Big difference between this haze and [the little diamonds on the VMAs]
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Betta look what's really important, y'all under the sun
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Especially if you are over 21
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(This ain't no TV show) ain't no video (this is really real!)
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Y'all hearin' the same old keep it real
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Posin' for TV stars, havin' big rim cars
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[But these streets be bloody, b] no matter where you at no gas
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Driving a luxury (urgency)
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Don't y'all know? (It's in a state of emergency)
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Show somebody's government is far from reality
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Somebody's government is far from reality!
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New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and night
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(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright!)
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New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and night
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(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright! We got a problem.)
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New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and night
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(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright!)
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New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and night
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(Hell no!)
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And they don't have a clue what's going on down there
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And I'm like, you gotta be kidding me
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This is a natural disaster
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Anyway you look at it, it's a tragedy.
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It's awful down here, man
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God is lookin down on all this
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And if they aren't doing everything in their power to save people
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They are gonna pay the price
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Do you know where I'm coming from?
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Now I see we be the new faces of refugees
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We ain't even overseas, but stuck here on our knees
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Forget the plasma TV, ain't no electricity
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New world's upside down and out of order
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Shelter? Food? Wassup, [where's the water?]
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No answers from disaster, them masses hurtin'
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So who the f- we call - Halliburton?
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Son of a Bush, how you wanna just trust that cat
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to fix shit, when all the help is stuck in Iraq?
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Makin war plans, takin more stands than Afghanistan
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2, 000 soldiers there dyin in the sand.
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But that's over there, right? [What's over here?]
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Is a noise so loud
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That some can't hear
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But on TV I can see
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Bunches of people
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Looking just like me
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And they ain't all right
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(Wait wait wait wait yo yo what?)
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New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and night
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(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright!)
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Mississippi in the mornin, afternoon, and night
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(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright!)
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Alabama in the mornin, afternoon, and night
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(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright!)
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USA in the mornin, afternoon, and night
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(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright.)
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We definitly ain't alright.
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And some of y'all voted for that cat! Son of a Bush.
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That's right, what God giveth sometimes your country taketh away
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I'mma see y'all at the million man march
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Tenth year aniversary of the million man march.
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That's right the minutes are gonna drop, and that's right, fahrenheit
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Yeah. And many of our people and our organizations are getting
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together now in Washington DC
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October 16th y'all... 2005
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We had all these issues to talk about, we got more issues to talk
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about now y'all
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Betta yet, ideas to listen to and spread
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Yeah... Comin from Public Enemy. Number one y'all... Public Enemy 2005
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Public Enemy 2006. Yeah. Public Enemy 2007
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(Let me tell y'all somethin
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All of our hearts is out there with y'all, you know what I'm sayin?
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And we sendin trucks, we sendin boats, boxes of cans of soup... and everything
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Clothes and all of that. shoes
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We donating everything to y'all, you know what I'm saying?
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Don't worry, y'all ain't by yourself, you need to know that)
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