Chuck D pleads for people to stop using Public Enemy’s Burn Hollywood Burn on videos of LA fires
by Sian Cain from US news | The Guardian on (#6TH0F)
The 1990 protest track has nothing to do with families losing everything they have' says the rapper, hitting out at TikTok and Instagram videos
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Public Enemy's Chuck D has asked people to stop using the rap group's song Burn Hollywood Burn as a soundtrack on videos of the California wildfires, saying it has nothing to do with families losing everything they have".
The rapper issued the statement on the weekend in response to several videos uploaded to TikTok and Instagram that use the 1990 Public Enemy song over footage of the wildfires, which have killed at least 24 people, destroyed more than 12,300 buildings and displaced more than 200,000 people so far.
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