Now I dialed nine one one a long time ago
Don’t you see how late they’re reactin'
They only come and they come when they wanna
So get the morgue truck and bag the goner
They don’t care 'cause they get paid anyway
They treat you like an ace that can’t be betrayed
I know you stumble with no use people
If your life is on the line then you’re dead today
Late comings with the late comin' stretcher
That’s a body bag in disguise
y’all I’ll betcha
I call 'em body snatchers
quick they come to fetch you
with an autopsy ambulance
just to dissect ya
They are the kings 'cos they swing amputation
Lose your arms your legs to them it’s compilation
I can prove it to you watch the rotation
It all adds up to a funky situation
So get up get get get down
911 is a joke in yo town
Get up get get get down
Late 911 wears the late crown
911 is a joke
Everyday they don’t never come correct
You can ask my man right here
with the broken neck
He’s a witness to the job never bein' done
He would’ve been in full effect 911
They the token to your life when it’s croakin'
They need to be in a pawn shop on a
911 is a joke we don’t want 'em
I call a cab 'cause a cab will come quicker
The doctors huddle up and call a flea flicker
The reason that I say that 'cause they
Flick you off like fleas
They be laughin' at ya
while you’re crawlin' on our knees
And to the strength so go the length
Thinkin' you are first when you really are tenth
You better wake up and smell the real flavor
Cause 911 is a fake life saver
Ow, ow 911 is a joke
Man, I couldn't stop laughing the first time I saw this video back in 1990. Especially at the part where that guy fall and had a seizure until morning. Lol..
actually after this song came out ambulance came faster. stating that they didn't want people calling a taxi. They don't give him credit but Flavor Flav probably saved a lot of lives with this tune.
After this song came out, kids from my school kept prank phoning 911 and singing this song to the dispatchers. We ended up having a huge assembly at school where emergency workers came in to tell us all about 911, explaining that 911 isn't a joke and that prank 911 calls could jeopardize lives. Public Enemy are my heroes for getting me to miss all of my morning classes at school that day! :)
Say what you wan't about Flav but he is an American Original. Who else do you know that can wear a lime green suit, top hat and a huge clock and pull it off.
Ha..they changed the ending! THE ORIGINAL ended with a white blonde Chic walkin down the road, she breaks her high heel, calls 911 and 3 cops show up instantly.
The "Rage" sign was the name of a weekly mtv style video music clip show in Australia broadcast in the 90's from 6 to 9am..
Kids would wake up in the morning and watch rage. No internet, no mtv, it would show American music that you couldn't get in Australia.