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Burn Hollywood Burn Lyrics

Artist: Public Enemy
Album: Fear Of A Black Planet

featuring Ice Cube Big Daddy Kane

CHUCK D:

Burn Hollywood burn I smell a riot
Goin' on first htey're guilty now they're gone
Yeah I'll check out a movie
But it'll take a Black one to move me
Get me the hell away from this TV
All this news and views are beneath me
Cause all I hear about is shots ringin' out
So I rather kick some slang out
All right fellas let's go hand out
Hollywood or would they not
Make us all look bad like I know they had
But some things I'll never forget yeah
So step and fetch this shit
For all the years we looked like clowns
The joke is over smell the smoke from all around
Burn Hollywood burn

ICE CUBE:

Ice Cube is down with the PE
Now every single bitch wanna see me
Big Daddy is smooth word to muther
Let's check out a flick that exploits the color
Roamin' thru Hollywood late at night
Red and blue lights what a common sight
Pulled to the curb gettin' played like a sucker
Don't fight the power ... the mother fucker

BIG DADDY KANE:

As I walk the streets of Hollywood Boulevard
Thinin' how hard it was to those that starred
In the movies portrayin' the roles
Of butlers and maids slaves and hoes
Many intelligent Black men seemed to look uncivilized
When on the screen
Like a guess I figure you to play some jigaboo
On the plantation, what else can a nigger do
And Black women in this profession
As for playin' a lawyer, out of the question
For what they play Aunt Jemima is the perfect term
Even if now she got a perm
So let's make our own movies like Spike Lee
Cause the roles being offered don't strike me
There's nothing that the Black man could use to earn
Burn Hollywood burn

Comments/Interpretations

by preston on 3/13/2009 10:11pm
coll song doug.

by Marcelo on 4/7/2009 1:51pm
There's part of the lyrics missing

Cause all I hear about is shots ringin' out(And abou gangs puttin each other's head out!)

by truth on 5/11/2009 9:15pm
Now Ice Cube be playin' busta roles in nazi disney movies

by CrK on 8/1/2010 9:19pm
My how much Ice Cube has turned into a hypocrite and become a part of shitty Hollywood

by pete on 7/20/2011 10:10pm
yeah he really has, all his movies are terrible but still can rap

by Harold on 8/2/2011 9:07pm
What about Flavor Flav's dialogue with the racist producer?

by J W on 9/17/2013 12:50pm
I really miss this in Hip Hop!!

Not really moved by Ice cubes verse, but Chuck and Kane are on point!!!!

In the movies portrayin' the roles
Of butlers and maids slaves

"The Butler"
"The Help"
"DaJango"