One More Reason to Fire FEMA Head Mike Brown (Hip-Hop Edition)

Nick Gillespie | September 6, 2005

Over at Nobody's Business, Rogier van Bakel links to a rap song about disaster preparedness that lays down these phat lines:

Disaster, it can happen anywhere,
But we've got a few tips, so you can be prepared.
For floods, tornadoes, or even a 'quake
You've got to be ready, so your heart don't break.

Disaster prep is your responsibility.
And mitigation is important to our agency.

People helping people is what we do.
And FEMA is there to help see you through.
When disaster strikes, we are at our best.
But we're ready all the time, 'cause disasters don't rest.

The song is online at FEMA's "kidz" site here; audio here. Latest version of RealPlayer--and an incredibly dark sense of humor--required to listen.

Comments

Jeff P.|9.6.05 @ 2:01PM|#

That's up there with those hip-hop anti-drug songs.
Perhaps someday someone will try to convey a preachy message via the dulcet tones of death-metal.

|9.6.05 @ 2:20PM|#

Yeah, I can see this "rap" being written by some honkey idiot who recites it in a pinched "da-da-da-da-daaa" cadence.

"Word to your mother, gosh darn it!"

My trigger finger is green, but it twitches..

|9.6.05 @ 2:30PM|#

Wait, they're cribbing their ideas from the Simpsons now?

Seitz|9.6.05 @ 3:49PM|#

Yeah, because the kids I know use the word "mitigation" all the time. In fact, just the other day, my six year old niece was telling me how her extra long nap mitigated her staying up past her bedtime.

Rodney|9.6.05 @ 4:12PM|#

And when those rivers change their courses
Juz remember that Mike Brown?s last job was judging horses
"Then how'd he get a job with responsibility so great?"
Why he just called up his ol' roommate.

|9.6.05 @ 4:24PM|#

I guess my sense of humor is black as night, because that song splits my sides.I'd love to see the Kos crowd do something with that, but they don't have either the sense of humor, nor the understanding that FEMA should be shot like a lame horse.

|9.6.05 @ 5:03PM|#

Perhaps someday someone will try to convey a preachy message via the dulcet tones of death-metal
Well, there is evangelical Christian Life Metal music....

nor the understanding that FEMA should be shot like a lame horse
Well if it's horses, Mike Brown is quite qualified to run FEMA then...

|9.7.05 @ 1:12AM|#

Using music to teach kids isn't entirely stupid. I know I'm not the only person in America who can thank Schoolhouse Rock for my ability to remember the Preamble to the Constitution.

|9.7.05 @ 11:57AM|#

Jesus Christ.

Fitty Cent's song about arming up with AK's and AR's has more applicable disaster-related survival advice.

The Anti-Puritan|9.8.05 @ 12:10AM|#

I know I'm not the only person in America who can thank Schoolhouse Rock for my ability to remember the Preamble to the Constitution.

Lolly, lolly, lolly, get your adverbs here…