Andrew Sam - Coolie [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[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 skills, hard work, I'm just nothing but a coolie [x2]

[Verse 1: Andrew Sam]
They heard I was a coolie, so they ask me if I'm cool
Yes, but that's not the point, homie, take your ass to school
They "emancipated" Africans / But they continued to banish 'em
Exploited them for labor, Africans taken advantage of
Emancipation 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 unskilled 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 skills, and we got our asses 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 that long ass railroad
Then white men took the credit, they got horns and not halos

[Chorus: Andrew Sam]

[Verse 2: Andrew Sam]
Born to be a loser, so I made myself a winner
Small dude with no skills, 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
We were coolies back then, now the model minority
Even though we're smarter with no problem getting jobs
The bamboo ceiling's keeping white folks at the top
It goes Whites, Asians, then everybody else
Just like with the coolies, history repeats itself
But now we got skills, and we're well-educated
Yet we can never say that we really truly made it
Cause they still exclude us even though we assimilated
And I extremely hate it / I'm tired of the racists
Asians are just too good, biggest reason why we're hated
You got a problem with me, then you'll be lyrically berated

[Chorus: Andrew Sam]