Burn Hollywood Burn (feat. Ice Cube & Big Daddy Kane)

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 ringin' out

About gangs puttin' each other's head out

So I'd rather kick some slang out

Alright, 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 Hollywood

Burn Hollywood, burn Hollywood

Burn Hollywood, burn Hollywood

Burn Hollywood, burn Hollywood

Burn Hollywood, burn Hollywood

Burn Hollywood, burn Hollywood

Burn Hollywood, burn Hollywood

Burn Hollywood, burn Hollywood

Ice Cube is down with the P.E.

Now every single bitch wanna see me

Big Daddy is smooth, word to mother

Let's check out a flick that exploits the color

Rollin' through 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 motherfucker

As I walk the streets of Hollywood Boulevard

Thinkin' 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 play some jigaboo

On the plantation, what else can a **** 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 bein' offered don't strike me

As nothing that the black man could use to earn

Burn, Hollywood, burn

Burn Hollywood, burn Hollywood

Burn Hollywood, burn Hollywood

Burn Hollywood, burn Hollywood

Burn Hollywood, burn Hollywood

Burn Hollywood, burn Hollywood

Burn Hollywood, burn Hollywood

Burn Hollywood, burn Hollywood

Burn Hollywood, burn Hollywood

Now we're considering you for a part in our new production

How do you feel about playing a controversial negro?

Yeah, I'm with it, you mean somebody like Huey P. Newton or H. Rapp Brown, right?

Well, it's a servant, Arthur, that shuffles a little bit and sings

Yo, man, what? That's bullshit, I'm five thousand

Aye, aye, Cube, Kane, Flave, listen

I hope you ain't wasting my time

You know how I feel about giving these movies my money

You know what I'm sayin'? I work hard for it

Come on, man, it's gonna be dope, man

Just chill, man

Aye, I'm chill too, man

But, you know what I'm sayin', I just don't

I can't go for this Steel Magnolia shit, know what I'm sayin'?

Be cool, man, it's cool

Ladies and gentlemen, today's feature presentation, Driving Miss Daisy

No, no, no, just what I'm talkin' about, all this Terms Of Endearment shit

I'm out of here, man, that's bullshit

Hey yo, check it out, man, I got Black Caesar at the crib, man

Y'all wanna go check that out?

That's the idea, we could have rolled with that from the get-go

Fuck Hollywood, man