Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Big Daddy Kane - Burn Hollywood Burn lyrics
Ice Cube [O'Shea Jackson Sr.] Los Angeles, California, U.S. 🇺🇸
[Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Big Daddy Kane - Burn Hollywood Burn lyrics]
Burn Hollywood burn I smell a riot
Goin' on - first they'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
So all I hear about is shots ringing out
About gangs putting each other's head out
So I rather kick some slang out
All right fellas let's go hang 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 is down with the PE
Now every single bitch wanna see me
Big Daddy is smooth, word to mother
Let's check out a flick
That exploit's the color
Roaming through Hollywood late at night
Red and blue lights what a common sight
Pulled to the curb
Getting played like a sucker
Don't fight the power
(gunshot) the motherfucker
As I walk the streets of Hollywood Boulevard
Thinking how hard it was
To those that starred
In the movies portraying the roles
Of butlers and maids, slaves and hoes
Many intelligent Black men seemed
To look uncivilized when on the screen
Like, I guess I figure you
To play some jigaboo
On the plantation, what else can a nigga do
And Black women in this profession
As for playing 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
As nothing that the black man
Could use to earn burn Hollywood burn
"Now we're considering you for a
Part in our new production
How do you feel about
Playing a controversial negro?"
"yeah, I'm wid it you mean somebody like
Huey P newton or H rap Brown, right?"
"Well, it's a servant character that
Chuckles a little bit, and sings"
"Yo, man, what? That's bullshit"
"Hey Cube, Kane, Flav
Listen i hope you ain't wastin' my time
You know how I feel about
Givin' these movies my money
Know what I'm sayin'? I work hard for it"
"Yo, man, it's gonna be dope, man"
"Chill, man" "Hey, I'm chill chill, but you
Know what I'm sayin', i just
Don't wanna, I can't go for
This Steel Magnolia shit
Know what I'm sayin'?"
"Come on, man, it's cool"
Ladies and gentlemen
Today's feature presentation: Driving
Miss Daisy "No, no, no"
"Bullshit, just what I'm talkin' about
All this Terms
Of Endearment shit i'm outta here, man
It's bullshit" "Yo, check it out, man I got
Black Caesar at the crib, man
Y'all want to go check that out?"
"That's the idea we could have rolled
With that from the get-go!"
"Fuck Hollywood, man"
Goin' on - first they'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
So all I hear about is shots ringing out
About gangs putting each other's head out
So I rather kick some slang out
All right fellas let's go hang 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 is down with the PE
Now every single bitch wanna see me
Big Daddy is smooth, word to mother
Let's check out a flick
That exploit's the color
Roaming through Hollywood late at night
Red and blue lights what a common sight
Pulled to the curb
Getting played like a sucker
Don't fight the power
(gunshot) the motherfucker
As I walk the streets of Hollywood Boulevard
Thinking how hard it was
To those that starred
In the movies portraying the roles
Of butlers and maids, slaves and hoes
Many intelligent Black men seemed
To look uncivilized when on the screen
Like, I guess I figure you
To play some jigaboo
On the plantation, what else can a nigga do
And Black women in this profession
As for playing 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
As nothing that the black man
Could use to earn burn Hollywood burn
"Now we're considering you for a
Part in our new production
How do you feel about
Playing a controversial negro?"
"yeah, I'm wid it you mean somebody like
Huey P newton or H rap Brown, right?"
"Well, it's a servant character that
Chuckles a little bit, and sings"
"Yo, man, what? That's bullshit"
"Hey Cube, Kane, Flav
Listen i hope you ain't wastin' my time
You know how I feel about
Givin' these movies my money
Know what I'm sayin'? I work hard for it"
"Yo, man, it's gonna be dope, man"
"Chill, man" "Hey, I'm chill chill, but you
Know what I'm sayin', i just
Don't wanna, I can't go for
This Steel Magnolia shit
Know what I'm sayin'?"
"Come on, man, it's cool"
Ladies and gentlemen
Today's feature presentation: Driving
Miss Daisy "No, no, no"
"Bullshit, just what I'm talkin' about
All this Terms
Of Endearment shit i'm outta here, man
It's bullshit" "Yo, check it out, man I got
Black Caesar at the crib, man
Y'all want to go check that out?"
"That's the idea we could have rolled
With that from the get-go!"
"Fuck Hollywood, man"