Mia X - My FEMA People

2006
At 36 years old, Mia X could be considered the godmother of New Orleans bounce music.
She was the first female artist to be signed to Master P's No Limit record label in the 1990s. Young's grandmother's great-grandmother came to New Orleans from Haiti.
"I'm a wonderful, proud Seventh Wardian," said Young, who now lives in Dallas. The Seventh Ward flooded along with most of the city, and her grandmother's 115-year-old house will have to be bulldozed.
"Ride through my city," she raps on "My FEMA People," her Katrina song. "Beirut. Iraq. Ride through my city. I ride and cry all through the city. Looking for the culture all through the city. We were left for dead for vultures all through the city. It's so much bigger than the weather."
Her song follows the travails of many a hurricane victim, including the red tape.
"Everything under water, everything gone, bill collectors stalking me on my phone. So if you're waiting on me, then I'm waiting on FEMA," she raps.
While Young was not in New Orleans for Katrina, several of her relatives died in the days following the storm.
"I did it mainly for the people grabbing you by your arm and just telling you one horror story after the next, one bloody story after the next," she said. "They have this hopelessness in their eyes like nobody believes them or everybody wants them to shut up."

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