Lil Wayne

Featuring: Juelz Santana

Songwriter: Juelz Santana Lil Wayne

[Intro]
Lil Wayne: yea
Juelz Santana: uhh uhh uhh uhh
Lil Wayne: yea
Juelz Santana: I can't feel my face, yea, I make the sound so beautiful, u did
Lil Wayne: yea, I no, elz talk to them

[Hook 2x]
When the levees broke
When the planes hit
What's going on my nigga
You know the same shit
After Katrina, after the towers
We holds our heads high after disaster

[Hook]
When the levees broke
When the planes hit
What's going on my nigga, the same shit
After Katrina, after the towers
We holds our heads high after disaster

[verse 1]
They couldn't kill me holla if u feel me
Hurricane Katrina victim in the building
Okay, day time soldier, night time rider
911 survivor, yeah I feel you
And who am I to try to keep hope alive
When I'm seeing dead babies floating by
Damn, burning buildings, flamed up
They couldn't take da heat so they jumped
Man, they want to want to transform the streets we grew up on
A deck of cards with no aces: luck gone
Uhh, tower 1 fell, tower 2 fell
Now everybody screwed like loose nails
I'm like what are we to do with a house with no roof
Look up and pray to whose above you
God, yeeup, now just look in your seat
Black people, white people, all covered in debris, yeaah

[Hook]
When the levees broke
When the planes hit
What's going on my nigga
You know the same shit
After Katrina, after the towers
We holds our heads high after disaster

When the levees broke
When the planes hit
What's going on my nigga, the same shit
After Katrina, after the towers
We holds our heads high after disaster

[verse 2]
Try to keep our head up, and not get fed up (nope)
But it seems like they won't let us live
Yea, and I was told that life ain't shit and this world ain't neither
This is why I scream fuck the world not the people (nope)
Yes, but in the belly of the beast
People get swallowed like meat, eat
And your president was lying while my people was dying
In the helicopter flying looking down reading signs
Help! SOS, somebody save us
Ten dead inside, where our savior
And, I've seen tragedy I've looked it in the eye
Hate being at my lowest so I choose to get high
High, so high, that my name should be sky
It's a bird, it's a plane, no it's I
Yea, I holla five on four till they bury me man
I'm the father of New Orleans and I'm a family man
You heard me

[Hook]
When the levees broke
When the planes hit
What's going on my nigga
You know the same shit
After Katrina, after the towers
We holds our heads high after disaster

When the levees broke
When the planes hit
What's going on my nigga, the same shit
After Katrina, after the towers
We holds our heads high after disaster

Now, if I should die before my time, Lord
Take care of Jew Jew and his mom (please)
Take care of little Jah (please)
Take care all the kids (please)
'Cause through us they live
Yeah, lord please keep your eyes on me
And if I die, I pray my soul you keep
And I don't want this world to kill me, but I'm getting so weak
I can't take much more, I just want to be free
Free, they said they knew there was a problem with the levees, and they did nothing (nothing)
Clinton approved the money, and Bush did nothing (nothing)
So, Katrina hit, and three days later, Fema just comin'
I'm feeling like what the hell is really goin' on
Planes into buildings, what's next King Kong?
I wish we didn't even have a reason for this song (but we do) Moment of silence for the people that's gone (Shhhhh)
To those restin' in peace, those dead and deceased, soon again we meet (soon)
Or 'til I'm high and drunk and my car swerves off road, haa
I'll meet you at the crossroads
Lord, please keep your eyes on me
And if I die, I pray my soul you keep
And i don't want this world to kill me, but I'm getting so weak
I can't take much more, I just wanna be free

[Hook]
When the levees broke
When the planes hit
What's going on my nigga
You know the same shit
After Katrina, after the towers
We holds our heads high after disaster

When the levees broke
When the planes hit
What's going on my nigga, the same shit
After Katrina, after the towers
We holds our heads high after disaster

Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr., better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, grew up in the Hollygrove neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana.

At the age of nine, Lil Wayne joined Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label, and half of the duo, The B.G.‘z, with B.G.. In 1997, Lil Wayne joined the group Hot Boys, which also included rappers Juvenile, B.G., and Young Turk. Lil Wayne gained most of his success with the group’s major selling album Guerrilla Warfare, released in 1999. He has been listed in the 2012 Guinness Book Of World Records for the record of Most US Hot 100 Hits By A Rap Artist with 64 hits between 1999 and 2010.

Wayne is famous for his command of slow, witty lines and metaphorical jokes. His discography includes a slew of successful mixtapes, including Dedication 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6; No Ceilings; and Da Drought 3. His albums consistently garner acclaim, with Tha Carter series all platinum hits. Tha Carter series has been a work of Wayne’s for 13 years and continues to grow with the fifth installment, Tha Carter V released in 2018 (however, it was initially supposed to be released in late 2014). Wayne keeps a regular recording schedule, with studio booths in his tour bus, home, and following him everywhere.

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