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Chuck D pleads for people to stop using Public Enemy’s Burn Hollywood Burn on videos of LA fires


The 1990 protest track ‘has nothing to do with families losing everything they have’ says the rapper, hitting out at TikTok and Instagram videos

Since last Tuesday, wildfires have continued to break out and burn across Los Angeles county, with thousands of homes and buildings incinerated in the suburbs of Pacific Palisades, Eaton Canyon, Malibu and the Hollywood Hills. Hollywood has been greatly affected by the fires, with many celebrities losing their homes in Pacific Palisades and Malibu, including Billy Crystal, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Anthony Hopkins, Jeff Bridges, Mel Gibson, John Goodman, Paris Hilton, Cary Elwes, John C Reilly and Eugene Levy. Meanwhile, actor James Woods revealed his house survived the Pacific Palisades fire, days after he emotionally told CNN that it was likely gone.

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