The 53 percent rap video

Posted by on Sunday, November 6, 2011 · 6 Comments 


The 53 percent rap video is now live and available for viewing. Check out the Radio version above.

Download the song now!

The 53% Rap – Radio Version – Single

The 53% Rap – Original Version – Single

A Next Media Animation / Jayse Wan of Good Lyfe Addikts collabo

About the 53 percent rap song

The 53 percent rap song is an ode to the struggles of a 53 percenter who, like others in her cohort, does not expect help from the government. Despite her troubles, she is fiercely proud of the hardships she must endure and believes in personality responsibility.

Who are the 53 percent?

“The 53 percent” is an opposition group to the 99 percent Occupy Wall Street movement. The 53 percent refers to the percentage of Americans reportedly paying federal income taxes.

The group claims taxes would be forced higher should the 99 percent and Occupy Wall Street be successful in their goals, which are a “massive redistribution of wealth and an elimination of capitalism.”

The 53 percent have life struggles, just like everyone else. But this group does not believe the 1% of wealthy or government bears responsibility for fixing these problems.


Also, here is the original version:

53 percent rap song lyrics

I wasn’t born in a hospital, my momma’s too poor

I had to bite through my own umbilical cord

Started working as a bagger at the age of twelve

For Christmas I’d take a double shift as Santa’s elf

Tried to go to college, I had to take on debt

Got knocked up, haven’t graduated yet

Spent my life slaving for a minimum wage

Then I got laid off and now I’m middle aged

But that don’t bother me, coz my gang is 53

percent! mother fuckers, yeah you know me!

Hold my sign for all to see, coz I’m down with 53.

Represent! all my brothers, yeah you know me!

Got cancer last year, shit went Stage Four

Cut it out with a knife, threw the tumor on the floor

You call it hard core? Public healthcare is for commies

Suck it up 99. Go cry to your mommies.

Took a sub-prime mortgage due to easy credit lending.

B of A foreclosed my home, now my FICO is mending.

I don’t blame Wall Street coz I wanna be rich

Till then I work three jobs. Man, life’s a bitch.

CROWD: 53 percenters, come help us fight!

WOMAN: Fuck off, 99ers, I’ll make it on my own alright?

CROWD: How, 53ers, when you can’t even make rent?

WOMAN: Fuck off, 99ers, one day I’ll be 1 percent!

I don’t blame the 1 percent for all my problems.

Occupy Wall Street? You just want to tax and rob them.

Gonna hang loose with my homie, Tony Bologna

Pepper you hippies up like rice a roni

Stop blaming bankers, shed your entitlement

Real Americans don’t ask for help from government

If you’re poor in USA you probably deserve it

Get your ass to Mickey Ds, flip those burgers and work it.

53 The 53 percent rap video (Next Media Animation TV)

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  • http://profiles.google.com/rrwillsj richard wills

    Poor, benighted Frdeiger.

    You are confusing the superstitious customs of your boondock village

    with the Laws of the Universe.

    So sorry you find the peasants are so very revolting!

  • Frdeiger

    Funny.  In order for there to be a true comedy there must be some element of truth.  You’ve hit the truth more than the Occupy crowd ever will.  Nice work.

  • Dogrunner

    Wait a minute: who’s NOT playing the victim now? Pleeeeeeeeeeeease, give the world a break. These people are ALWAYS blaming other people themselves. “Health care is for commies” shows how skewed their viewpoint is. And I’ll bet good money that the majority of the 53% they say they represent would NOT agree with the loudmouth whiners. They think that anybody who protests anything is asking for a handout, which is not the case. And  the recent NY Time/CBS poll show 2/3 of Americans siding with the general themes of the OWS movement. This piece works only as a parody.

    • Dogrunner

      And a very good one at that.

  • Luke

    DISLIKE. How about you report the news instead of playing sides in politics. Sure, you tell people to send this to your friends on both sides, but can’t you see that by making this video, you are promoting one side of the issue? Would you consider making a rap about abortion rights on either side? No! Because that would guarantee a loss of viewers (as this will inevitably do as well). I would be perfectly happy for you to post things like this all the time if you took the word ‘news’ out of your title – it implies that you are trying to deliver facts rather than playing sides.

    • Lc

      Chillax it’s meant to be sarcastic