Public Enemy’s Chuck D calls out edgelords utilizing his track to soundtrack footage of Los Angeles fires

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When Public Enemy‘s Chuck D wrote Burn Hollywood Burn as a scathing indictment of the movie business’s therapy of black actors and the LAPD’s notorious racial profiling for his band’s third album, Concern Of A Black Planet, he couldn’t probably have imagined that, 25 years on, his track could be co-opted by on-line edgelords taking pleasure from seeing the destruction brought on by devastating Californian wildfires.

However right here we’re.

Yesterday, January 9, the hip-hop legend known as out these misappropriating the band’s track on this insensitive method, calling on these doing so to “be taught the historical past.”

“Burn Hollywood Burn is a protest track,” the rapper defined on Instagram, on a publish captioned ‘PRAY 4 LA’. “Extracted from the Watts rebel monikered by the Magnificent Montague in 1965 in opposition to inequality when he mentioned ‘Burn child burn’ throughout the air. We made thoughts revolution songs aimed toward a one sided exploitation by a[n] business. Has nothing to do with households, dropping all the things they’ve in a pure catastrophe.”

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