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Nikki by Logic

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Logic

Nikki

Release date: 21st October 2014

From Under Pressure
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About This Track

Logic builds 'Nikki' around an extended metaphor that runs through much of 'Under Pressure', personifying his relationship with cigarettes as a toxic romance. The track reveals what earlier album references left ambiguous: Nikki is shorthand for nicotine, and the song traces a decade-long dependency framed as an all-consuming love affair. Logic has cited Kanye West as an influence on the approach, aiming to write something that could speak to anyone struggling with addiction, whether to nicotine or harder substances.

The verses move through familiar beats of compulsion and attempted escape, the narrator caught between need and self-disgust. Logic credits the artist by name when he raps about feeling her in his lungs and veins, the imagery literal and metaphorical at once. The song's structure mirrors the cycle it describes: moments of resolve undercut by relapse, clarity giving way to rationalisation, the pull of habit dressed up as devotion.

"Nikki" is a track by Logic, from the album Under Pressure , released 21st October 2014. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

Logic

Logic

Lyrics

Nikki

[Verse]

I can feel you in my lungs, feel you in my veins

Bloodstream only way to make it to my brain

I tried some others but man they just not as good as you

Going crazy 'cause I only feel this good with you

Maybe I'm just not as strong as I once was

When we're together lately I don't even feel a buzz

I'm addicted to this shit like it was hard drugs (Drugs)

Nikki baby, I love you but now I gotta go

'Cause in the end what happens you already know

Probably wonder where I been at, I been laying low

But in my mind I'm wondering what I'm paying for (Paying for)

All these other bitches on my dick but I can't fuck with that

You're the only girl I need I gotta have you back

Even though you turn my lungs black (My lungs black)

Tell me where you been Jack (Been Jack)

Uh, I know this shorty that go by the name of Mary

I used to fuck her way back when I didn't know a thing

Skipping school with all my homies on some truancy

But when I ended things with her it was just you and me

Doing me good, that's what I thought at first

Me and you together, swear to God that's all that worked

Away from you though man it's just so hard to work (Hard to work)

Uh, my heart is hard at work

We been together like ten years

Goddamn, took me as a young man

Everyday I wonder who I am, who will I be, where will I go

What will they write upon my grave?

A free man born as a king, who died as a slave

But everything he gave her was for nothing though

Oh no I can't fade that shit I gotta let you go

You got me tripping like a flight to Vegas

All this shit you got me doing man it's outrageous

All I know is I'm living the life I never would

Finally let you go, I thought I never could

Don't get me wrong, can't forget the times shared

Seem like everywhere I go, I always know you're there

Tried to run but my legs won't

I look away but my head don't

I love it when you're fresh

I love it when I take your top off and we share the same breath

I hate it that I need you, Nikki

But I love it when I feed you, Nikki

I hate that I bleed for you

Uh, I long and I need for you

But I love it when I taste you (Taste you)

Nothing can replace you (Replace you)

I wish I could erase you, you’re everywhere I go

But you're everywhere I long to be

And all these other people that don't seem to understand

I'm just a man they always ask what’s wrong with me

Man you're everything I crave

You're the only thing I let in that would put me in the grave

I'm a king, you're my Coretta

But lately, I been feeling like a slave for the nicotine (Nicotine, nicotine)

[Break]

Slave for the—

Said, I'm a slave for the nicotine (Nicotine, nicotine)

Been a slave for ya

I'm a muthafuckin' slave for ya

Slave for the nicotine (Nicotine, nicotine)

Nikki, Nikki, slave for ya

I'm a slave for ya Nikki

I'm a muthafuckin' slave for ya

[Outro: Thalia]

All handwriting on the album's artwork was done by Big Lenbo—

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2014
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    Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    6ix, Logic, Narada Michael Walden
    Producer
    6ix, Logic
    Bass
    Josh Lippi
    Guitar
    Steve Wyreman
    Additional Production
    6ix
    Additional Vocals
    Anna Elyse
    Assistant Recording Engineer
    Casey Cuayo
    Cello
    Claire Courchene
    Mixing Engineer
    Bobby Campbell, Casey Cuayo
    Organ
    Benjamin Schwier
    Piano
    Benjamin Schwier
    Recording Engineer
    Bobby Campbell
    Saxophone
    Terrace Martin
    Viola
    Thomas Lea
    Violin
    Thomas Lea
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