"I'm a convert to the concert/And I did that for inflation/’Cause I worked hard in a white band/And they still laughed at the Asian," he says. The son of a Pakistani Muslim father and an English mother of Irish descent,

Zayn Malik is back with another banger, and he’s seemingly opening up about his One Direction -era fame in its lyrics. The singer-songwriter is dropping a remix of his Room Under the Stairs track, “Fuchsia Sea,” featuring a new rap verse.

In the lyrics, Malik appears to allude to the racism he faced while a member of One Direction with Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and the late Liam Payne. (Malik was a member of the boy band from 2010 to 2015.)