Model Minority Lyrics

(Office dialogue)

You have an awesome day! Yeah, yeah

Hey, how's it going!? I'm Kay!

I gotta put this mask on a couple hours a day

Professionally networking with people that can't relate

The higher I climb, The less that I see my face, and the

Higher I climb, the more I'm subconsciously adopting

Eurocentric ways every time my income's raised

I be questioning whether or not I belong in this place?

Be questioning whether or not I'm repping for my race...Damn

Am I committing forgery?

When I'm blending in with my coworkers at these public outings

It feels like I'm rushing a sorority

Just a little black sheep trying to get his money

I've been wondering,

Is my culture supporting me?

Or do they think I shuck and jive with the majority?

I'm just trying to save face so I could get out this rat race.

So for now, gotta be the model minority

My employers upstanding model minority

Conforming to the work culture blend in and model minority

Subconsciously switch my own dialect and be a model minority

From 9 to 5 slaving making your money

And how come I'm the only one I know there's more of me

Or did you solve that quota, so it's not priority?

I hear the microaggression, passive aggressive statements

But if I respond, then my conduct is disorderly

And I know that your best employee ain't outperforming me

But you'll promote em', even though I got seniority

But I'm desperate for this job, I'm drowning in my expenses

So I'm shut the fuck up and listen

And be a model minority.

My employers, upstanding model minority

From 9 to 5 slaving making your money,

Ay yi yi

Quiet down they don't wanna hear your truth

They made you love they wealth and hate your roots, It's the tru…

Cause even if you in a Benz, You're still a nigga in a coupe

They gon keep inflating and keep on bending the rules.

So you tell me what you're gonna do?

Are you gonna be a model minority?

Be your employers upstanding model minority.

Conforming to the work culture, blend in and be a model minority.

Subconsciously tuck your tongue when you talk and be a model minority

From 9 to 5 slaving making your money

Ay yi yi