'Fortunate Son'

It must have been hard for the sons of Senators and millionaires to resist moving along to Creedence Clearwater Revival’s rocking “Fortunate Son.” The 1969 protest song highlighted the hypocrisy of the privileged class, whose so-called patriotism cost others their lives: “Some folks are born made to wave the flag/ Ooh, they’re red, white and blue/ And when the band plays ‘Hail to the Chief’/ Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord/ It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no Senator’s son.”
'Georgia Bush'

For New Orleans native Lil Wayne, the 2005 hurricane that burst levees and drowned the city quite literally hit home. While there’s no longer much debate about whether President George W. Bush botched the response to Katrina, the rapper didn’t mince words when he called out the President in his 2006 release “Georgia … Bush,” which samples Ray Charles’ “Georgia on My Mind.” Wayne sings, “We came from a town where everybody drowned … Ain’t nobody tried, there’s no doubt on my mind it was Georgia Bush.” And later, “New Orleans, baby, now the White House hating, trying to wash away like we not on the map.”

























