Cigarettes

[Intro]

Yeah, go ahead and, uh, cue the special effects

[Verse 1]

Man, I love this rap game, mainly 'cause it's cool

To add a little spice to the life you've been through

Everyone exaggerates a tiny little bit

Make that shit sound more gangsta than it really is

You can't appear weak, man, we wanna hear street

We wanna hear you spit your thug over this here beat

Don't take it as sarcastic, I can't get enough

I'm telling you, you can call my bluff, if it's not rough

Then, I really don't need it, I'm not even ashamed

I got too much reality that's filling up my brain

So sell me on that product, I'm addicted to the game

Suck it up like a cigarette, light it up, man

[Chorus]

It's just like a cigarette, it's something that I do

Once in a while, but between me and you

It's just like a cigarette, nobody's really fooled

I don't want the truth, I wanna feel fucking cool

[Verse 2]

Let me tell you something that I realized tonight

My hip-hop radio's like Marlboro light

They both selling stories and they sound about the same

Cigarettes say they safe, rappers claim they really bang

We don't care if it's true when we just lay the money down

We don't believe the words, we just love the way they sound

They're acting like we're idiots, they're lying to our face

Maybe we are idiots, we buy it anyway

I'm running out to get the next rapper's CD

Just sucking up the guns, drugs, and misogyny

The same way that I suck up all the stories when I breathe

That little bit of death, supposedly cancer free

And everything they say's got the truth twisted up

And twisted up's what I want, man, I can't get enough

'Cause even though we know it's all just a big bluff

We just light another up, what, we don't give a fuck!

[Chorus]

It's just like a cigarette, it's something that I do

Once in a while, but between me and you

It's just like a cigarette, nobody's really fooled

I don't want the truth, I wanna feel fucking cool

It's just like a cigarette, it's something that I do

Over and over, but between me and you

It's just like a cigarette, nobody's really fooled

I don't want the truth, I wanna feel fucking cool

[Bridge]

Man, listen to my words, listen for a while

Lip service radio, don't touch the dial

If you're in the car, turn up the track, man

Give your whole neighborhood some second hand rap

Hey, a matter of fact, listen for a while

Lip service radio, don't touch the dial

If your in the car, man, turn up the track

And give the whole neighborhood some second hand rap

[Chorus]

It's just like a cigarette, it's something that I do

Once in a while, but between me and you

It's just like a cigarette, nobody's really fooled

I don't want the truth, I wanna feel fucking cool

It's just like a cigarette, it's something that I do

Over and over, but between me and you

It's just like a cigarette, nobody's really fooled

I don't want the truth, I wanna feel fucking cool