The damage here along the Gulf coast is catastrophic
There's a frantic effort underway tonight to find survivors
There are an uncounted number of the dead tonight
People are being forced to live like animals
Please send stuff here We are desperate
No one says the federal government is doing a good job
and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people
No water yeah, and I fought for my country for years
We need help We really need help
In Baghdad, they they drop, they airdrop water, food to people
Why can't they do that for their own people
the same idiots can't get a bottle of water into a
Major American city in three days are trying to win a war
People was poor before the hurricane came
When the downpour poured, it was like when Mary J sang
Everyday it rained, so everyday the pain
But ignored 'em, and showed 'em the risk was to blame
But life is a chain, cause and effected
Niggas off the chain, because they affected
It's a dirty game, it's whatever is effective
From weed to sellin' 'caine, gotta put that in effect, shit
Wouldn't you loot If you didn't have the loot
Baby needed food and you was stuck on the roof
And helicopters swoop down just to get a scoop
Through his telescopic lens, but he didn't scoop you
For the next five days, no help ensued
They called you a refugee because you seek refuge
And the Commander in Chief, just flew by
Didn't stop, 'though he had a couple seats
Just proved Jet blue, he's not, jet flew by the spot
But if he ran outta jet fuel and just dropped
Huh, that'd've been somethin' to watch
Helicopters doin' fly bys to take a couple shots
Couple portraits, then ignored 'em
He'd be just another Bush surrounded by a couple orchids
Poor kids, just cause they was poor kids
Left them on they porches, same old story in New Orleans
Silly rappers, cause we got a couple Porsches
MTV stopped by to film our fortresses
We forget the unfortunate
Sure, I ponied up a mil' 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 my folks abandoned
Damn, money we gave just a band aid
Can't say we better on than we was before
In synopsis, this is my Minority Report
Can't say we better on than we was before
In synopsis, this is my Minority Report
So many times I'm, coverin' my eyes
Peekin' 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 little money, tell 'em it's alright
To be able to sleep at night
You will pay that price, but some of these folks
Has lost they whole life
Seems like we don't even care
And then it wasn't on the nightly news no mo'
Suddenly it didn't matter to you no mo'
It went on and almost nothin' changed
What the hell were they there for
Seems like we don't even care
Buses are on the way to take those
People from New Orleans, to Houston
Seems like we don't even care
They lie
People are dying, at the Convention Center ohh
Their government has failed them ohh
George Bush doesn't care about black people
Seems like we don't even care
Seems like we don't even care