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Cigarette by Raye

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Raye

Cigarette

Release date: 3rd May 2018

From Side Tape - EP
Track 5
3:08
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About This Track

'Cigarette' pairs Raye with Mabel and Stefflon Don over a track that builds its central metaphor with deliberate swagger. The song frames desire as a habit, one that cuts both ways; Raye positions herself as something addictive and ultimately corrosive, a pleasure her subject cannot refuse. The production sits somewhere between trap and dancehall, giving the hook room to breathe across multiple vocal layers. Stefflon Don's verse shifts the register entirely, arriving in patois and bringing a different energy to the negotiation at the heart of the track. The song never settles into a single mood or perspective, instead layering competing voices and tempos to keep the dynamic restless. It's a study in control and leverage, wrapped in the language of physical attraction and the kind of confidence that comes from knowing exactly what you're worth.

"Cigarette" is a single by Raye, from the album Side Tape - EP, released 3rd May 2018. The track is 3:08 long. It's filed under R&B/Soul. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Raye.

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Raye

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Lyrics

Cigarette

Come and get it right now
Oh woah
Come and get it right now, now

So baby come and get it right now, now, now
I can take you higher, then low, low, low
I'm bad for you love, but I'm your cigarette
So baby come and get it right now, now, now
All up on my body, boy go down, down
I'm bad for you love, but I'm your cigarette

So go on and smoke that shit, baby
I know that you know I'm your favourite
Think she's what you want but she ain't it
Watching how my waist whine
Tryna touch my waistline
Know I like to take time with it
Tell me you can't look away, I get it
Do I need you? Am I sure? Not really
So you might never get to see me naked, nah-nah-nah

Bad for you, love that is worth the deal is
Can't get enough of this
Said you tryna hit and quit
But you need me like a cigarette

So baby come and get it right now, now, now
I can take you higher, then low, low, low
I'm bad for you love, but I'm your cigarette
(But I'm your, but I'm your cigarette)
So baby come and get it right now, now, now
All up on my body, boy go down, down
I'm bad for you love, but I'm your cigarette

How do you want it, at yours or mine?
I'm too yours to decline
You should go tell everybody you're mine
Don't keep that shit secret, no no
Baby love it when I do that, I know
You're too pretty to be rolling solo
If you like it, you can take a photo
Don't quit, I know you want me like a bad habit
I'm your nicotine and you're the addict
All yours, ooh

So baby come and get it right now, now, now
I can take you higher, then low, low, low
I'm bad for you love, but I'm your cigarette
So baby come and get it right now, now, now
All up on my body, boy go down, down
I'm bad for you love, but I'm your cigarette (Nah, nah, nah)

Said mi got everyting weh you want
Cock it up 'pon di ting weh you want
Drive by and you don't know mi style
Ride up, call me Don in my sky
Just land big jet pon di runway, boy
Lovin' how I set from a distance boy
Big tings a gwaan, first class, we are fly
Fly, fly, fly
Got me high, you know
Money affi run, affi party low
Drop it one time then mi climb up
Tings affi run 'til the morning
Higher than on mi plane

So baby come and get it right now, now, now
I can take you higher, then low, low, low
I'm bad for you love, but I'm your cigarette
(Oh yeah, nah, nah)
So baby come and get it right now, now, now
All up on my body, boy go down, down
I'm bad for you love, but I'm your cigarette

So baby come and get it right now, now, now
I can take you higher, then low, low, low
I'm bad for you love, but I'm your cigarette
So baby come and get it right now, now, now
All up on my body, boy go down, down
I'm bad for you love, but I'm your cigarette

I'm bad for you love but I'm your cigarette, yeah yeah
And I'm bad for you love but I'm your cigarette
And you know I'm the one, and you know
Oh no, ooh, ah, yeah
And yuh know seh the gyal, confess
Turn out, I turn you out da best
But I'm yours

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Track details

From Side Tape - EP

3:082018Single
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Album
Side Tape - EP
Side Tape - EP
Raye
4th May 2018
Track number
5
Release year
2018
  1. 1Crew
    3:56
  2. 2Decline
    3:08
  3. 3Confidence
    2:50
  4. 4Slower
    3:19
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  • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Charlie Handsome, Lewis Hughes, Mabel, Nicholas Audino, RAYE, SickDrumz, Stefflon Don
    Producer
    Charlie Handsome, Twice as Nice
    Bass
    Charlie Handsome, Twice as Nice
    Drums
    Charlie Handsome
    Drum Programmer
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    Stuart Hawkes
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    Dan Parry
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