Drake - Fair Trade
Time: 0:27
And I show my face in a case so you know it's me
Imitation isn't flattery, it's just annoyin' me
And I'm too about it

give insincere compliments; excessive or insincere praise
Heard in 59 songs (193M+ combined views) — most famously in "Fair Trade" by Drake.
Updated August 3, 2026
Time: 0:27
And I show my face in a case so you know it's me
Imitation isn't flattery, it's just annoyin' me
And I'm too about it

Time: 1:26
Because she fall in love too often, that's what the matter
At least I'm talkin' about it, keep my pattern of flattery and
She was starin' through the door frame and

Time: 2:25
How fucked up that'd be?
Gat'll be near your anatomy, my form of flattery
Assault and battery, 'cause we coming with that street mentality

Time: 0:11
Leggo beast lips of flattery eyes of lust
Leggo beast she says carnal love is a must

Time: 3:33
With batteries to the head
The flattery of watchin' my stock rise
The salary, the compensation tripled my cock size

Time: 1:08
she probably get mad at me, I bet ya
it gets her nowhere like flattery
she said, "Where were you last Saturday?

Time: 0:24
And defend her case
Part flattery, part threats
"For those who cling to this domination

Time: 2:05
Just wanna have shenanigan, don't wanna make you mad again
So focus on the flattery you feel when I fring it
Acknowledge that I got it and you love it when I bring it

Time: 0:42
Cause you know she at the back of the bus kissing the tat on my dick
You gotta be sick, then I had her, thick anatomy, hit with the flattery tricks
Stagger these raggety battery pricks

Time: 0:48
A ticket up front? That's my usual salary
They imitatin' my style, shit, I call it flattery
I'm here forever, nigga, and that's just what that'll be

Time: 1:24
By the French Dog Blues
Never surrender to flattery
Frown on, come down on duplicity

Time: 2:23
I can just snap, my man'll clap, that's a battery
Niggas stole my style, I ain't mad, that is flattery
Niggas talking tough, I don't listen, that is chattery

Time: 3:30
When is it the Academy rattlin' your anatomy?
Gotta be J5, so kill all of your fake flattery
That'll be the day when labels pay our way

Time: 0:53
In a sense she still smiles very sweetly
Charged with insults and flattery
Her body moves with malice

Time: 0:39
Bad on his head like a wave brush
If copying is flattery, I feel touched
But this ain't flag football

Time: 0:52
Mutilation's the most
Sincere form of flattery
If you want to be me

Time: 0:58
Comin' with assault and battery
Imitation is a form of flattery
Tryna make somethin' so original, you can't flatter me

Time: 1:45
I could forget how desperately you tried
Flattery will get you nowhere
I could forget how you had tried to get the best in me

Time: 1:23
The under like removed off a charged battery
Someone had his ear stuffed wit the sweets of flattery
A live wire, fired the shot in the booth

Time: 0:31
Scratch 'em off the dean's list, cancel all the scholarships
I can't let you use me, flattery don't move me
Say action, they capping, like acting in movies

Time: 0:30
Of color and composition, so magnificent
And he said, "Thank you, please, but your flattery
It is truly not becoming me

Time: 2:32
I can't keep it to myself
I got the champagne and the flattery
To keep me busy

Time: 1:37
Could be a look in her eyes
In need of flattery she changes batteries
So that her light will still shine

Time: 2:20
They're all teeth, they cowardly bite me
Imitation, the worst kind of flattery
Kids in cold blood on the bullet train take me

Time: 1:48
Took change and touched chains like King Midas
Imitation is flattery, they seem like us
But only 300 bricks can make you Leonidas

Time: 1:24
You've earned your degree
Wise to know cheap talk from flattery
So I'd drop out

Time: 1:27
No
Form of flattery
You say he sound like me

Time: 1:23
When they watching you, the hospital needs a hospital
Now they mocking you, they say the flattery is sincere
I rhyme like a nigga younger than me by ten years

Time: 3:30
Their eyesight it is twisted by the glory of their careers,
The heaped praise and flattery is music to their ears,
To listen to them talk about how it hasn't happened,

Time: 1:13
You ain't need me, why the fuck you askin' me?
Fake convos, then flavor, love the flattery
I'm thinkin' I fuck with nobody

Time: 3:15
Or my shoes, homie, you ain't ready
And if imitation is flattery, uh
I don't lack on the flattery

Time: 5:27
And if they lying, somebody reply to that comment with a "No, it's not"
In regards to flattery, like an open pop
It's a battery with a broken dock

Time: 2:38
Met you at the gallery, it ended up in anarchy
You was spray-painting silk screens, and double dosed up with flattery
Do you think that I would ever care for a girl who's never there?

Time: 0:25
But mister, you don't know me
'Cause I don't fall for flattery and come on's like this
You think you can impress me, huh

Time: 1:05
You dream you was me I gleam lyrically
I love 'em for it it's the highest form of flattery
Doin' the buck ten chrome, skatin' on the battery

Time: 2:01
Can't U comprehend I want a lover, not a friend?
I don't care 4 sugar-coated flattery, french kiss will suffice
Blame our sex on your run-down battery, holding U is nice

Time: 1:09
You're washed up, and now I'm in a different league
You're trying way too hard, and I don't need your flattery
Now it's funny how the tables turn

Time: 1:00
But, Christ, this guy's too much (I wanna tell him)
I'm as human as the next girl, I like a bit of flattery
But I don't need your practised lines

Time: 0:40
all i want to dream
flattery
days that never come

Time: 0:05
This isn't what I like to call flattery,
but I know that I believe that I've found what's true,

Time: 1:05
Amazing things are done on earth
And the masters of flattery colour the trees
They walk on the oceans, put the town under siege

Time: 0:24
We are all the same
Save your flattery
Just take it easy

Time: 1:01
Arrogant is a word that people call me
That's why I don't need any more flattery
Yes dudes and compliment throwers

Time: 0:46
Every little word you speak
Feels a whole lot like flattery
Thank you (ooh)

Time: 0:52
It's cool, it's cool, you're so endearing
Looking like a snack, no cap, no flattery
But you like to beat it up and come no battery

Time: 0:03
If you combine flattery
With a long history

Time: 1:23
You say you had a good time, but did ya' think it was for free, yeah
And how much did it get ya, all their flattery
And now you come back, runnin' for protection

Time: 3:00
You just a charity case
Begging for some sort of flattery, assault and battery
You think you madder than me

Time: 1:31
Call me in, call me out, call me weird, call me doubt
But flattery is said to get you nowhere
So we'll leave, together, out the back door

Time: 0:55
Just let me recharge my social battery
I'm so done pretending for fake flattery
I can't help it I know I'm somewhere between"I" and"E"

Time: 0:35
Never minces words
Don't discharge flattery
So don't listen to what you've heard, duh-ra, duh-ra

Time: 2:08
So a message from the wisest guy to broad
Is best like flattery ignored
Baby just let him go

Time: 1:36
Me I'm gonna take it
As a form of flattery
Oh I must be some kinda woman

Time: 1:09
What does it mean?
You hear no flattery
At the factory

Time: 4:32
A weird glowing green
And flattery won't get her
Out of her seat

Time: 2:31
Wrapped up in a casket, are the only ones the pastor sees (huh)
Most cues ain't verbal, why you wasting time with flattery? (huh)
All kings are bastards 'round here, that just happens, naturally (yeah)

Time: 1:33
And they feed you with flattery
To get you to show them the things that you do

Time: 0:31
Oh, I want more
I've never been much for flattery
So don't waste that kind of talk on me

Time: 1:14
Oh yes, he is (Oh yes, he is)
There's one thing that he loves and that is flattery
One week he's in polka-dots, the next week he's in stripes
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