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Artist: Public Enemy f/ Ice Cube, Big Daddy Kane
Album:  Fear Of A Black Planet
Song:   Burn Hollywood Burn

        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