Cool Kids Video (MV)

All my life I wanted to be a cool kid
A white boy who loves hip hop music
In high school acted a fool I was a nuisance
Too cool for the teachers their rules were all bullshit
Picked on I was a freak, cried myself to sleep
In the land of the bland I was too unique
Thought my future's looking bleak
Now that's all past tense
Funny how my liabilities became my assets
Back then girls wouldn't give me the time of day
Now they spend the night, but I ain't asking them to stay
Wake up feeling lost put the coffee in the pot
I feel like all I have is (Eye) like a f*ckin cyclops
I'm a visitor here
But if I wrap up this track can I deliver it here
I love this culture but I feel like it hates me
Could never be a Nas, could never be a Jay-Z
I love this culture but I feel like it hates me
Funny cause this culture's what made me
All my life I wanted to be a cool kid, a cool kid
All my life I wanted to be a cool kid
Party at the trap house, baby it was too lit
Back then would have killed to give my two cents
But I learned to make dollars you got to move in silence
I'm not afraid of the violence, but I don't encourage it
Give me the microphone though and I'll murder it
White privilege is the pigment I've been burdened with
Do you understand the irony and dangers that I'm flirting with
After this song I'll probably be called the racist
But no white supremacist would ever embrace this
My best hope is ignorant maybe even tasteless
By rapping I'm guilty of cultural appropriation
So go ahead and diss me, call me a whack vulture
But I love hip hop, and I respect black culture
If you can't see that maybe you're the one that's racist
All I have for you compassion, understanding and patience
Especially for those who still caught up in the matrix
And think race is the problem, so they promote sameness
Let's celebrate our differences, talk without arrogance
And never feel guilty or ashamed of our heritage
I love this culture but I feel like it don't know
Could never be a Kendrick, can never be a J. Cole
I love this culture but I feel like it don't know
Funny cause this culture I would die for
All my life I wanted to be a cool kid, a cool kid
All my life I wanted to be a cool kid
Now I'm like f*ck that, I don't got to prove shit
I love this culture, I'm love sick again
Don't want to be a Macklemore, don't want to be an Eminem
I love this culture, I'm love sick again
Funny cause this music is my medicine