Chuck D doesn't need followers misusing considered one of his well-known fire-themed songs.

The rapper has launched an announcement saying that anybody associating Public Enemy's "Burn Hollywood Burn" with the Los Angeles wildfires is misrepresenting the group's unique intentions.

"'Burn Hollywood Burn' is a protest music," he wrote within the assertion, explaining that it’s linked to a really totally different Los Angeles occasion and offering some historic context.

The monitor was "extracted from the Watts Riot monikered by the Magnificent Montague in 1965 in opposition to inequality when he stated 'burn, child, burn' throughout the air," Chuck D stated. "We made thoughts revolution songs geared toward a one-sided exploitation by [an] business."

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Public Enemy's 1990 monitor, off their third studio album, Concern of a Black Planet, options visitor verses from Ice Dice and Huge Daddy Kane and clearly rails in opposition to racism, stereotyping, exploitation, and a scarcity of area for Black voices in leisure. It doesn’t, nevertheless, vilify town of Los Angeles or another literal location. (Whereas DJ Magnificent Montague distanced himself from the Watts Riot all through his life, he did coin the catchphrase "Burn Child Burn," which ultimately grew to become the motion's rallying cry.)

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Chuck D reiterated that the hip-hop group's music is under no circumstances related to tragic excessive climate occasions. "Has nothing to do with households dropping every thing they’ve in a pure catastrophe," he wrote. "Study the historical past. Godspeed to these in loss."

The rapper has additionally shared details about quite a lot of sources for victims of the fires on his social media pages.

Some listeners thought concerning the Public Enemy monitor this week, as a number of huge wildfires burned all through Los Angeles County — together with the Sundown Hearth, which blazed within the Hollywood Hills on Wednesday night time. Though that fireplace prompted huge visitors jams and evacuation orders in areas that included TCL Chinese language Theatre and the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, it’s now contained and finally didn’t destroy any properties.

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Los Angeles isn’t within the clear, nevertheless, because the Palisades Hearth within the Malibu space and the Eaton Hearth in Altadena have collectively destroyed greater than 10,000 constructions and killed 11 individuals to date, experiences Reuters. A lot of these affected by the fires are working- and middle-class individuals, and over 153,000 Angelenos are underneath evacuation orders throughout Los Angeles County.

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Jennifer Garner, whose home survived the Palisades Hearth however whose Pacific Palisades neighborhood was largely destroyed by the flames, emphasised how the catastrophe has impacted individuals from all walks of life. "It's nearly like Sesame Avenue, proper?" she stated in an emotional interview with MSNBC. "You already know the people who find themselves serving you meals. You already know the individuals. You care about one another. There's a reciprocity right here, and there's an actual love right here, and we've gotta care for them. And I can suppose of people that work at these locations that I've been in contact with who — their mother and father misplaced their properties, they misplaced their properties, they misplaced the place [where] they work."

The fires have additionally destroyed the properties of quite a few high-profile entertainers, together with Billy Crystal, Anthony Hopkins, Mandy Moore, Milo Ventimiglia, Jeff Bridges, Leighton Meester, Adam Brody, Paris Hilton, Diane Warren, Anna Faris, John C. Reilly, Miles Teller, Harvey Guillén, Jennifer Gray, Cary Elwes, and Eugene Levy.

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