(feat. Ne-Yo)


[Intro: News Excerpts] 

The damage here along the gulf coast is catastrophic.

There's a frantic effort under way tonight to find

survivors. There are an uncounted number of the dead tonight... 

People are being forced to live like animals... 

We are desperate... 

No one says the federal government is doing a good job.. 

And hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people... 

No water, I fought my country for years.. 

We need help, we really need help.. 

In Baghdad, they they drop, they air drop water, food to people..why cant they do that to their own people? 

The same idiots that can't get water into a major American city in less than three days are trying to

win a war... 



[Verse 1 - Jay-Z] 

People was poor before the hurricane came 

But the down pour poured is like when Mary J. sang 

Every day it rains, so every day the pain 

But ignored them, and showed em the risk was to blame 

For life is a chain, cause and effected 

Niggas off the chain because they affected 

It's a dirty game so whatever is effective 

From weed to selling kane, gotta put that in effect 

Wouldn't you loot, if you didn't have the loot? 

Baby needed food and you stuck on the roof 

Helicopter swooped down just to get a scoop 

Through his telescopic lens but he didn't scoop you 

The next five days, no help ensued 

They called you a refugee because you seek refuge 

The commander-in-chief just flew by 

Did he stop? No, he had a couple seats 

Just proved jet blue he's not 

Jet flew by the spot 

What if he ran out of jet fuel and just dropped 

hu,That woulda been something to watch 

Helicopters doing fly-bys to take a couple of shots 

Couple of portraits then ignored 'em 

He'd be just another bush surrounded by a couple orchids 

Poor kids just 'cause they were poor kids 

Left 'em on they porches same old story in New Orleans 

Silly rappers, because we got a couple Porches 

MTV stopped by to film our fortresses 

We forget the unfortunate 

Sure I ponied up a mill, but I didn't give my time 

So in reality I didn't give a dime, or a damn 

I just put my monies in the hands of the same people that left my people stranded 

Nothin' but a bandit 

Left them folks abandoned 

Damn, that money that we gave was just a band-aid 

Can't say we better off than we was before 

In synopsis this is my minority report 

Can't say we better off than we was before 

In synopsis this is my minority report 



[Verse 2 - Ne-Yo] 

So many times I'm, covering my eyes 

Peeking through my fingers 

Tryin' to hide my, frustration at the way that we treat 

(Seems like we don't even care) 

Turn on the TV, seein' the pain 

Sayin' such a shame 

Then tryin' to go on with my life 

Of that, I too, am guilty 

(Seems like we don't even care) 

So we send a lil' money, tell 'em it's alright 

To be able to sleep at night 

You will pay that price 

While some of these folks' lost their whole life 

(Seems like we don't even care) 

Now it wasn't on the nightly news no more 

Suddenly it didn't matter to you no more 

In the end almost nothing changed 

What the hell, what was that for? 

(Seems like we don't even care) 



[Outro: News Excerpts] 

...Buses are on the way to take those people from New Orleans to Houston 

...They lyin' 

...People are dying at the convention center 

...Their government has failed them 

...George Bush doesn't care about black people