[Chuck D (Flavor Flav) {Both}]



People are dying..

They don't have homes..

They don't have jobs..

The city of New Orleans will never be the same

Now let's get off your asses and let's do something

and let's fix the biggest goddamn crisis in the history of this country



Guess it gotta come down to this..

In order to see things for what they are and what they is..

We still may not be free up in this piece or treated very equally as

far as I can see.. now if you saw what I saw

And see what I see on the TV that lead me to write this song

after talking to my father..

But the anger in this song seem to write it's damn self...

Hell No We Ain't Alright

(It's your boy Son of a Bush. Hahaha.)



Now all these press conferences and breaking news alert {this just in}

While your government looks for a war to win..

Claim for the blame game, names where I begin

Walls closin, need to get some help to my kin

While the rest of this Bush nation stands

the drama unfolds as we the people under the stand

Fifty percent of this Son of a Bush nation

is like hatin on hatin aspect of assassination

Ask Pat Robinson, quiz him

[Smells like terrorism]

Racism in the news, still one sided views..

Sayin whites find food

Pray for the National Guard who be ready to shoot

because they be sayin us blacks loot



New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and night

(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright!)

New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and night

(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright!)

New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and night

(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright!)

New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and night

(Hell no!) Damn damn..

"Neva bada than" - 



Now them violence is quick, tsunamis, I don't mean to scare

Wasn't this written somewhere?

Disgraces, all I been seein is hurtin black faces

Moved out to harm in far away places

[Emergency] statements, corpses, alligators, and snakes

Big difference between this haze and {the little diamonds on the VMAs}

Betta look what's really important, y'all under the sun

Especially if you are over 21

(This ain't no TV show) ain't no video (this is really real!)

Y'all hearin the same old keep it real

Posin for TV stars, havin big rim cars

[But these streets be bloody, b] no matter where you at no gas

Driving a luxury (urgency)

Don't y'all know? (It's in a state of emergency)

Show somebody's government is far from reality

Somebody's government is far from reality!



New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and night

(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright!)

New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and night

(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright! We got a problem.)

New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and night

(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright!)

New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and night

(Hell no!)



And they don't have a clue what's going on down there

And I'm like, you gotta be kidding me

This is a natural disaster

Anyway you look at it, it's a tragedy..

It's awful down here, man

God is lookin down on all this

And if they aren't doing everything in their power to save people

They are gonna pay the price

Do you know where I'm coming from?



Now I see we be the new faces of refugees

We ain't even overseas, but stuck here on our knees

Forget the plasma TV, ain't no electricity

New world's upside down and out of order

Shelter? Food? Wassup, [where's the water?]

No answers from disaster, them masses hurtin'

So who the f- we call - Halliburton?

Son of a Bush, how you wanna just trust that cat

to fix shit, when all the help is stuck in Iraq?

Makin war plans, takin more stands than Afghanistan

2,000 soldiers there dyin in the sand..

But that's over there, right? [What's over here?]

Is a noise so loud

That some can't hear

But on TV I can see

Bunches of people

Looking just like me

And they ain't all right

(Wait wait wait wait yo yo what?)



New Orleans in the mornin, afternoon, and night

(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright!)

Mississippi in the mornin, afternoon, and night

(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright!)

Alabama in the mornin, afternoon, and night

(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright!)

USA in the mornin, afternoon, and night

(Hell no! Hell no. We Ain't Alright.)



We definitly ain't alright..

And some of y'all voted for that cat! Son of a Bush..

That's right, what God giveth sometimes your country taketh away

I'mma see y'all at the million man march

Tenth year aniversary of the million man march..

That's right the minutes are gonna drop, and that's right, fahrenheit

Yeah. And many of our people and our organizations are getting

together now in Washington DC

October 16th y'all.... 2005

We had all these issues to talk about, we got more issues to talk

about now y'all

Betta yet, ideas to listen to and spread

Yeah... Comin from Public Enemy. Number one y'all... Public Enemy 2005

Public Enemy 2006. Yeah. Public Enemy 2007

(Let me tell y'all somethin

All of our hearts is out there with y'all, you know what I'm sayin?

And we sendin trucks, we sendin boats, boxes of cans of soup... and everything

Clothes and all of that.. shoes

We donating everything to y'all, you know what I'm saying?

Don't worry, y'all ain't by yourself, you need to know that)