Hell No We Aint Alright Lyrics - Rebirth Of A Nation - Public Enemy

[Chuck D: storm raging in the background] 

Does it gotta come down to this... 

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

We still might not be free up in this piece 

Or treated very equally as far as I can see... 

Hell no we ain't alright! 

[Chuck D (Flavor Flav)] 

Now all these press conferences, breaking news alert (this just in) 

While your government looks for a war to win 

Flames for the blame game, names where I begin 

Walls closin and get some help to my kin 

(Who cares?) While the rest of the Bush nation stares 

As the drama unfolds, as we the people under the stairs 

Fifty percent of this "Son of a Bush" nation 

is like, hatin on Haiti and settin up assassinations 

Ask Pat Robertson, quiz him (mmm - 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 

(What is your boy "Son of a Bush" doin?) [laughing] 

(NUTTIN!) 

[Chorus 1: x3] 

New Orleans in the mornin afternoon and night 

Hell naw! {HELL NAW} We ain't alright 

[Chorus 2] 

New Orleans in the mornin afternoon and night 

Hell naw! "Damn, damn!" 

[Chuck D (Flavor Flav)] 

Now them fires, earthquakes, tsunamis, I don't mean to scare 

... wasn't this written somewhere? 

Disgrace is all I be seein is hurtin black faces 

Moved out to all them far away places 

(Emergency) state, corpses alligators and snakes 

Big difference between this haze and (the little diamonds on the VMA's) 

You better look what's really important 

Y'all under the sun, especially if you over 21 

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

Beyond them same ol' keep it real 

quotes from them TV stars, drivin big rim cars (streets keep floodin B) 

No matter where you at no gas, driving is a luxury (urgency) 

Don't y'all know? They said it's a state of emergency 

Show somebody's government is far from reality 

(Aiyyo check one two!) 

[Chorus 1: repeat x4 instead of x3] 

[TV broadcast samples] 

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

I'm like you've gotta be kidding me, this is a NATIONAL disaster 

It's awful down here man 

God is lookin down on all this 

And if they are not doin everything in their power to save people 

They are gonna pay the price 

[Chuck D (Flavor Flav)] 

Now I see we be the new faces of refugees, who 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, what's up yo? (Where's the water?) 

No answers from disaster, them masses be hurtin 

So who the f#$! they call - HALLIBURTON?! 

"Son of a Bush" how you gonna just trust that cat 

to fix s%#t when all that help is stuck in Iraq? 

Makin war plans takin more stands in Afghanistan 

Two thousands soldiers there dyin in the sand 

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

It's a noise so loud some of y'all can't hear 

But on TV I know that I can see 

Bunches of people, lookin just like me 

[Chorus 1 x4: change city/state name each refrain] 

[1:] New Orleans 

[2:] Mississippi 

[3:] Alabama 

[4:] U.S.A. 

[Chuck D] 

We definitely 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 

Yeah, one love, comin from Public Enemy, #1 y'all 

Public Enemy, 2006 (yeah) 

Public Enemy 2007, all gettin together now 

[Flavor Flav] 

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 sayin? 

Don't worry, y'all ain't by yourself 

You need to know that