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Asian Girls And Hip Hop

to those who have told me I couldn't
make hip-hop because I was an Asian girl
one hip-hop was birth to be a home
hip-hop was born to be a life and if
life comes from woman and hip-hop is
life then how dare you tell me females
can't be emcees two Asian rappers only
rap about Asian rapper type things in
Eastern culture we think then feel then
speak in Western culture it's the
reverse when my people spit it is to
speak about what is missing it is to
speak about being so much while being
nothing at all every movie starring an
Asian role has had voiceovers in a white
man's tongue so when we wrap it is to
speak for ourselves for once this Asian
type thing is a giving it is a sacrifice
we breathed to you it is to make you
giris out of stories it is to make
familiar out of a foreign that has never
been explained 3 I was born in a
third-world country
raised in the West and find my Brown in
Madison Wisconsin a place that is white
with snow and bodies a place where I'm
the only one who looks like the Sun
while everyone hails around me
you try bringing a brown girl to the
cold and expect her not to make palm
trees out of snow you try bringing the
third world into a predominantly white
institution and expect me not to wreck
my set every damn day for truth is the
beat so many men that got the gift of
gab but never got the gift of giving
definitions for themselves
the reach who many boys making myths are
the bars Hercules is for the birds
that's just how it is weren't come see
me if you doubt my proposition my third
I will prophesize no permission my mama
taught me secrets that were rooted
superstition so you'll never catch me
spitting truth directing my reflection
breaking mirrors there be too many
punchline rappers not enough punch to
back it up line rappers not enough room
to make a punch line rappers spittin
sorry six teens boy apologize after come
on how does my second tongue spittin
better bars than you how you went no we
queens this world is matriarchal I want
my spit off of this mic with your
existence I'll never have you thinking
Asian women be submissive five
I use hip-hop to resurrect the women who
came before me I spit bars to release
myself from mental prisons that
encapsulate me I rocked crowds to show
this people that I can move y'all like
a giant waves that no one can surf that
will water the world one day that will
cure the drought of a people so when you
tell me that I can't do this because of
how I look where I come from how I sound
I tell you I was the only Asian person
in the slam I tell you that was born to
put words to a mic like prayers in the
wind like the mightiest freedom song so
you better come at me correct

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