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andrew sam - coolie (2019) lyrics

[chorus: andrew sam]
i wasn’t chained down, but neither was i free
gotta ask the system, “what am i supposed to be?”
i’m just nothing but a coolie
no sk!lls, hard work, i’m just nothing but a coolie
i wasn’t chained down, but neither was i free
gotta ask the system, “what am i supposed to be?”
i’m just nothing but a coolie
no sk!lls, hard work, i’m just nothing but a coolie

[verse 1: andrew sam]
you’re hearing the word “coolie,” so you’re thinking that it’s cool
it’s not what you think it means, let me take you back to school
they “emanc-p-ted” africans / but they continued to banish ’em
exploited them for labor, africans taken advantage of
emanc-p-tion was a trick, just to calm any revolts
tryna keep america together with nuts and bolts
and if that wasn’t enough, they wanted a chinese “great wall”
to separate whites from the blacks, guess they weren’t free after all
so they brought us in, called us a racial barrier
working with africans, we were just unsk!lled laborers
we weren’t slaves like africans, we weren’t free like white folks
we were walking paradoxes / what is this, some kind of joke?
they just wanted our labor, and no, they never wanted us
we worked hard without sk!lls, and we got our fingers bust
they had us above blacks, but we were still below them
between the roots and the leaves, we were just the stem
today we’re in the movies, either evil or we’re geeks
but we worked up in the mines, getting blown up, we’re not weak
just some underdogs, but we won’t accept defeat
we’ve always worked hard to show we’re better than elite
and most infamously, we built the pacific railroad
but too bad, i guess the credit wasn’t ours to take though

[verse 2: andrew sam]
born to be a loser, so i made myself a winner
small dude with no sk!lls, so i made my mind bigger
expanded my vocabulary / so people say that, “andrew’s very
smart at rapping well” / just in case you couldn’t tell
it’s the same game, different name, history’s on repeat
called us coolies back then, now the model minority
even though we’re smarter with no problem getting jobs
the bamboo ceiling’s keeping others at the top
they think, “whites, asians, then everybody else”
just like with the coolies, history repeats itself
but now we got sk!lls, and we’re well-educated
yet we can never say that we really truly made it
’cause they still exclude us even though we -ssimilated
and i extremely hate it / i’m tired of the racists
immigrants work too hard, biggest reason why we’re hated
you got a problem with me, then you’ll be lyrically berated

- andrew sam lyrics

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