Rappers Who Called Out George W. Bush

MCs who attacked Bush's reign.

MCs Who Checked Dubya - September 2 marks the 10-year anniversary of Kanye West putting former President George W. Bush on blast for his slow respsonse and lack of urgency during Hurricane Katrina. Who will ever forget Ye going off script during NBC's live broadcast relief fund and declaring, "George Bush doesn't care about Black people"? Count this as one of Ye's most heroic moments, but he wasn't the only MC to pull Bush's card. Read on and see who else had no so flattering words for the former Commander-in-Chief. — Michael Harris (@IceblueVA)(Photos from left: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

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MCs Who Checked Dubya - September 2 marks the 10-year anniversary of Kanye West putting former President George W. Bush on blast for his slow respsonse and lack of urgency during Hurricane Katrina. Who will ever forget Ye going off script during NBC's live broadcast relief fund and declaring, "George Bush doesn't care about Black people"? Count this as one of Ye's most heroic moments, but he wasn't the only MC to pull Bush's card. Read on and see who else had no so flattering words for the former Commander-in-Chief. — Michael Harris (@IceblueVA)(Photos from left: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Macklemore Clowns George W. Bush - Macklemore mocked the former President on "Bush Song" and even rapped in the voice of the former leader of the free world. Showing no chill, Mack also addressed him stealing the election and spit:"But thank God for computers and them helping / 'Cause we got the last names of every single felon / We programmed the computers to find the names that were the same / Whoever came up couldn't vote on election day / Way to go, Jeb, really great strategy / We got rid of the majority of Black families..."(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images for MTV)

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Macklemore Clowns George W. Bush - Macklemore mocked the former President on "Bush Song" and even rapped in the voice of the former leader of the free world. Showing no chill, Mack also addressed him stealing the election and spit:"But thank God for computers and them helping / 'Cause we got the last names of every single felon / We programmed the computers to find the names that were the same / Whoever came up couldn't vote on election day / Way to go, Jeb, really great strategy / We got rid of the majority of Black families..."(Photo: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images for MTV)

Hov Gets Super Ugly on the Commander-In-Chief  - Jay Z fired shots dead at George Bush after he left victims of Hurricane Katrina stranded for days and questioned his ability to lead in the process. Hov's "Minority Report" addressed his distrust with:"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 / What if he ran outta jet fuel and just dropped..."(Photos from left: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Live Nation, Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

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Hov Gets Super Ugly on the Commander-In-Chief  - Jay Z fired shots dead at George Bush after he left victims of Hurricane Katrina stranded for days and questioned his ability to lead in the process. Hov's "Minority Report" addressed his distrust with:"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 / What if he ran outta jet fuel and just dropped..."(Photos from left: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Live Nation, Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Jadakiss Makes Bush Put His Hands Up  - Jadakiss told the former president that he wasn't buying the terrorist attack theory for 9-11 and asked "Why did Bush knock down the towers?"(Photo: Ruff Ryders)

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Jadakiss Makes Bush Put His Hands Up  - Jadakiss told the former president that he wasn't buying the terrorist attack theory for 9-11 and asked "Why did Bush knock down the towers?"(Photo: Ruff Ryders)

Eminem Gets Shady With Bush - Slim Shady wasn't feeling Bush's war over oil and rhymed on "Mosh": "Stomp, push shove, mush / F**k Bush until they bring our troops home."(Photos from left: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images, Adam Bettcher/Getty Images for the Starkey Hearing Foundation)

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Eminem Gets Shady With Bush - Slim Shady wasn't feeling Bush's war over oil and rhymed on "Mosh": "Stomp, push shove, mush / F**k Bush until they bring our troops home."(Photos from left: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images, Adam Bettcher/Getty Images for the Starkey Hearing Foundation)

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Talib Shatters Bush's Ear Drum - Talib warned us that America was doomed on "The Proud," and he blasted his administration with:"Battle for America's soul, the devil's winning / The president is Bush, the vice president's a D**k so a whole lot of f**king is what we gon' get / They don't wanna raise the babies so the election is fixed / That's why we don't be f**king with politics."(Photo: Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images for BET)

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Talib Shatters Bush's Ear Drum - Talib warned us that America was doomed on "The Proud," and he blasted his administration with:"Battle for America's soul, the devil's winning / The president is Bush, the vice president's a D**k so a whole lot of f**king is what we gon' get / They don't wanna raise the babies so the election is fixed / That's why we don't be f**king with politics."(Photo: Imeh Akpanudosen/Getty Images for BET)

Yasiin Bey Claps on Bush - Yasin Bey called out Bush's lack of respect for Black people after his slow response during Hurricane Katrina and rapped on "Dollar Day (Katrina Clap)," "And Mr. President's a natural a** / He out treating n****s worse than they treat the trash."(Photos from left: Brad Barket/Getty Images, Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for VEVO)

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Yasiin Bey Claps on Bush - Yasin Bey called out Bush's lack of respect for Black people after his slow response during Hurricane Katrina and rapped on "Dollar Day (Katrina Clap)," "And Mr. President's a natural a** / He out treating n****s worse than they treat the trash."(Photos from left: Brad Barket/Getty Images, Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images for VEVO)

Saigon Sends s Few Warning Shots - Saigon educated the streets on how George Bush really felt about the hood and his eagerness to go to war. He called out all of politicians with "Kiss the Babies" and saved these lines just for the Commander-In-Chief: "It's the end of the way of life as we know it / This is the last straw George Bush bout to declare the last war / So tell everybody you love you still love em... / We are near the end of a twisted civilization / This isn't a nation/ Cut all the money for education / And build more prisons as a replacement / How is that they could win a war against terror and in the ghetto we losing the war against heroin..."(Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

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Saigon Sends s Few Warning Shots - Saigon educated the streets on how George Bush really felt about the hood and his eagerness to go to war. He called out all of politicians with "Kiss the Babies" and saved these lines just for the Commander-In-Chief: "It's the end of the way of life as we know it / This is the last straw George Bush bout to declare the last war / So tell everybody you love you still love em... / We are near the end of a twisted civilization / This isn't a nation/ Cut all the money for education / And build more prisons as a replacement / How is that they could win a war against terror and in the ghetto we losing the war against heroin..."(Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

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Papoose Lets Bush Have It - Papoose put George in the hot seat when he dropped his Hurricane Katrina tribute song "Mother Nature," and questioned why he even came. His venom included:"But when a tsunami happens in troublesome waters / The president ain't hesitate to cross that border / He took a whole army with him when he came to war / But when he traveled to New Orleans he came with his dog / Is he indirectly trying to call us dogs? / Or just traveling with his pet I'm not sure..."(Photo: Derrick Salters/WENN.com)

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Papoose Lets Bush Have It - Papoose put George in the hot seat when he dropped his Hurricane Katrina tribute song "Mother Nature," and questioned why he even came. His venom included:"But when a tsunami happens in troublesome waters / The president ain't hesitate to cross that border / He took a whole army with him when he came to war / But when he traveled to New Orleans he came with his dog / Is he indirectly trying to call us dogs? / Or just traveling with his pet I'm not sure..."(Photo: Derrick Salters/WENN.com)

The Bush Family Gets Bum Rushed by P.E.  - Public Enemy roasted Big and Lil' George on the politically charged "Son of a Bush" and pointed out their ties to the cocaine game with:"Coke is the real thing / Used to make you swing / Used to be yo thing / Daddy had you under his wing / Uhh, son of a Bush bringing kilos to fill up silos / You probably sniffed piles / Got inmates in Texas scrubbing tiles."(Photos from left: Ethan Miller/Getty Images, Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

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The Bush Family Gets Bum Rushed by P.E.  - Public Enemy roasted Big and Lil' George on the politically charged "Son of a Bush" and pointed out their ties to the cocaine game with:"Coke is the real thing / Used to make you swing / Used to be yo thing / Daddy had you under his wing / Uhh, son of a Bush bringing kilos to fill up silos / You probably sniffed piles / Got inmates in Texas scrubbing tiles."(Photos from left: Ethan Miller/Getty Images, Tom Pennington/Getty Images)

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Lil Wayne Makes Bush's Block Hot  - Lil Wayne fired an all out lyrical assault on Bush after he slowly responded to displaced victims of Hurricane Katrina. Wayne's direct aims on "Georgia Bush" included, "Man f**k the police and president (Georgia) Bush / So what happened to the levies, why wasn't they steady? Why wasn't they able to control this?"(Photos from left: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images, Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Billboard)

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Lil Wayne Makes Bush's Block Hot  - Lil Wayne fired an all out lyrical assault on Bush after he slowly responded to displaced victims of Hurricane Katrina. Wayne's direct aims on "Georgia Bush" included, "Man f**k the police and president (Georgia) Bush / So what happened to the levies, why wasn't they steady? Why wasn't they able to control this?"(Photos from left: Ronald Martinez/Getty Images, Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Billboard)

Killer Mike Makes Bush Run the Jewels - Killer Mike agreed with Kanye's comments but went in even deeper on his track "That's Life." He blasted the whole family with:"George Bush don't like blacks, No s**t, Sherlock / And his daddy CIA had flooded the hood with rock / And his momma said the women oughta feel at home / Getting raped in the bathroom in the Superdome / The comment Kanye made was damn near right/ But Bush hate poor people, be 'em Black or white."(Photo: Karl Walter/Getty Images for Coachella)

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Killer Mike Makes Bush Run the Jewels - Killer Mike agreed with Kanye's comments but went in even deeper on his track "That's Life." He blasted the whole family with:"George Bush don't like blacks, No s**t, Sherlock / And his daddy CIA had flooded the hood with rock / And his momma said the women oughta feel at home / Getting raped in the bathroom in the Superdome / The comment Kanye made was damn near right/ But Bush hate poor people, be 'em Black or white."(Photo: Karl Walter/Getty Images for Coachella)

Ludacris Disturbs Bush's Peace - Ludacris offered to put the smackdown on the former Commander-In-Chief when he rhymed on "Slap": "My grandmama's nerves are bad / And everybody in the hood is mad / Cause President Bush could give a damn about our a** / So I don't wanna hear s**t that he has to say / ... Troops gone and we still at war / Nobody even really knows what for."  (Photo: DTP Records, LLC)

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Ludacris Disturbs Bush's Peace - Ludacris offered to put the smackdown on the former Commander-In-Chief when he rhymed on "Slap": "My grandmama's nerves are bad / And everybody in the hood is mad / Cause President Bush could give a damn about our a** / So I don't wanna hear s**t that he has to say / ... Troops gone and we still at war / Nobody even really knows what for."  (Photo: DTP Records, LLC)

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Hate Bush Now - In April 2007 while performing in Toronto, God's Son called for President Bush's head on a silver platter if he eventually got the chance to rule the world. On Nas's track "What Goes Around" off Stillmatic, he also pointed his scope with, "What is destined shall be / George Bush killer 'til George Bush kills me."(Photos from left: Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for Sprite, Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)

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Hate Bush Now - In April 2007 while performing in Toronto, God's Son called for President Bush's head on a silver platter if he eventually got the chance to rule the world. On Nas's track "What Goes Around" off Stillmatic, he also pointed his scope with, "What is destined shall be / George Bush killer 'til George Bush kills me."(Photos from left: Bennett Raglin/Getty Images for Sprite, Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images)