Sandra (feat. Sirena)

What an honour just to be Asian Not your model minority From gold skin to cinnamon Green cards and citizens Airlifts, university scholarships, and immigrants Dark hair and irises Young without collagen Whatever we playing at you know we be killing it Humble but dominant Grew up an acrobat Flip from laundromat to graduate to diplomat Called Chinamen by the ignorant The wise they call them gentlemen Y'all know what time it is I love my people how we haggle at the markets Take a family vacation to the outlets Eatin' out is not a question if we 'gon split Or if anyone takes the last portion, no I love the smell of salt and sweet Gold in the air like the sun off the beach I love the stories that make us so unique You can copy the food but the soul is outta reach It's an honour What an honour just to be Asian Not your model minority Bruce Lee and Sun Tzu, it's an honour to be like Always treated as foreigners, never honorary white Not the model minority, I'm the model for the plight Poster boy for change, Larry Itliong the way I strike From the cloth of Sessue Hayakawa, Anna May Wong Now kids are playing BTS and putting anime on They wouldn't show Jet and Aaliyah kiss On film, but what for? But now Andrew banging Molly No need to feel insecure Never found no gold mountain but we made the gold open Superstars on camera, Hollywood is where we'll go pro in Word to Eddie Huang let our stories be televised Asian pride to Asian raps, to Asians Never Die This is Asian America, not to be fetishized From the Crazy Rich to Crazy 88, we steady rise In an industry that shun us cuz of pre-conceived biases We'll win because we're Asian-American, not in spite of it What an honour just to be Asian Not your model minority I've been thinking about the times that I didn't speak The times that I held back Now I know, that it's my time and I can't be weak I'm moving from my past What an honour just to be Asian Not your model minority It's an honour just to be Asian It's an honour just to be Asian It's an honour just to be Asian Word to Sandra, oh Don't let anybody take away your pride Or what you stand for It's an honour We been through the fire, we been through the cold We been building for one hundred and seventy years East, Southeast, and South Asian-Americans And we're still going, it's an honour, thank you