Juvenile Films Video In New Orleans’ Ravaged Ninth Ward
January 19th, 2006 | By Administrator
Juvenile recently wrapped a new, gritty video for “Get Ya Hustle On” that captures the continued desolation in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The rapper and New Orleans native is one of the first artists to be granted access to the lower Ninth Ward since a levee breach flooded the streets in the natural disaster.
The video, which is still in production, was shot over a four-day period in a documentary style.
“Get Ya Hustle On,” a politically charged song, criticized local and national governmental forces for neglecting the city’s poorest and disenfranchised.
“It?s more like out with the old, in with the new,” Juvenile said of the efforts to rebuild New Orleans. “Now you got [wealthy real estate barons] down there, buying up all the property – now it?s a big business venture. If you didn?t pay your taxes on your property – and half of the people weren?t able to pay taxes, you know – a lot of people lost their money for real.
While most of Reality Check, the rapper’s upcoming album, was recorded prior to the hurricane, he re-added songs like “Get Ya Hustle On” to address the plight of the victims.
The video, directed by Ben Mor, depicts three children that find masks of President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and Mayor Ray Nagin.
The opposing side of the masks says, “Help Is Coming.”
The beginning of the video says, “This is a tribute to those who died in the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. The storm may have passed, but for thousands the struggle is just beginning.”
To view images from the shoot click this link.
For more insight on Juvenile’s views on Hurricane Katrina and the political controversy surrounding it, read Juvenile’s AllHipHop.com interview.
Juvenile’s UTP/Atlantic debut, Reality Check, is due on March 7.
i checked juve out at his release party at the venue jan.31 2006…i’m glad that juve is a conscious rapper he voiced his opinion onstage about the political aspect of the storm…and shame on the fuckers for evem letting there be a political aspect,wake up people the government is glad this happened now all the rich people can make MORE money while they procrastinate in hopes that the evacuee’s ,in desperation, wind up in jail in other states. The lower 9th ward is the richest in black culture in the united states if not the world. i used to live there,my son was born there,and to this day my heart aches for every person that had to leave our beloved city,black or white! shout out to shrani and peaches record store for supporting cash money and all new orleans music GOD bless you shrani and family I love yall!in closing i wanna say go oput and buy this album because this mutha fuckah is offf the chain….YES I AM A ANIMAL!
fuck BUSH and all them other lame ass hoes
It’s all good, because God won’t fail us. Yes the media say we are the poorest in the city bull. That’s where all the money makers come from. The ninth ward is one of the only black neighborhood that stayed black. Mostly of the residents are retired, middle class or working families. One of the reason the government don’t want to fix the levees because, they can widen the canal, so more big ships can come thru and bring money to the government. They wanted to take the land but the residents wouldn’t let them because they didn’t want to pay enough money to relocate them, which many houses were paid for. Then you have the government wanting to put an interstate over the community so that the white residents that live in Chamette which is a mostly white parish where they don’t want any Blacks driving by or in their parish. They want to make a highrise so they don’t have to pass thur an all Black neighborhood. Then you have the whites who want to take over New Orleans, because it’s one of the richest city in Louisiana and it is ran by Blacks. I’m from the lower ninth ward and our house is just sitting there waiting the government to say we can rebuild. Right now they are showing our land off as a profit scheme, but we can’t find to many places to receive help for rebuilding or getting things for our homes. We are suffering more than the world know. Our governor who we put in office, because we thought she was for us is dogging the citizens of New Orleans out. She have change all kinds of laws to better fit her people who didn’t want her in. But we the people of New Orleans, helped her win. It’s all good, because like I say we are surviors and we were the only people who could handle it, because down in that jungle, the life is to survive in the city that’s what they it. No matter what 9th Ward for Life. CTC means Cross that Canal where the levees brech. I’m from the nine and I don’t mine dying. Something that was pass on from generations growing up in the 9th Ward! Peace,
juvey is a survivor juvey is the king of the south juvey is the realist ask young jeezy