flattery

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

Songs Featuring “flattery

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

Drake - Fair Trade

Jason Mraz - Geek in the Pink

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

Jason Mraz - Geek in the Pink

N.W.A - Chin Check

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

N.W.A - Chin Check

Steel Pulse - Leggo Beast

Time: 0:11

Leggo beast lips of flattery eyes of lust

Leggo beast she says carnal love is a must

Steel Pulse - Leggo Beast

Kendrick Lamar - untitled 07 | 2014-2016

Time: 3:33

With batteries to the head

The flattery of watchin' my stock rise

The salary, the compensation tripled my cock size

Kendrick Lamar - untitled 07 | 2014-2016

Viktor Vaughn - G.M.C.

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?

Viktor Vaughn - G.M.C.

In Flames - Zombie Inc

Time: 0:24

And defend her case

Part flattery, part threats

"For those who cling to this domination

In Flames - Zombie Inc

A Tribe Called Quest - Enough!!

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

A Tribe Called Quest - Enough!!

Tech N9ne - Earregular

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

Tech N9ne - Earregular

Snoop Dogg - Jerseys In The Rafters

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

Snoop Dogg - Jerseys In The Rafters

Babyshambles - French Dog Blues

Time: 1:24

By the French Dog Blues

Never surrender to flattery

Frown on, come down on duplicity

Babyshambles - French Dog Blues

The Alchemist - Whale Watching

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

The Alchemist - Whale Watching

Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard

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

Jurassic 5 - Concrete Schoolyard

Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief

Time: 0:53

In a sense she still smiles very sweetly

Charged with insults and flattery

Her body moves with malice

Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief

Gucci Mane - Drummer

Time: 0:39

Bad on his head like a wave brush

If copying is flattery, I feel touched

But this ain't flag football

Gucci Mane - Drummer

Marilyn Manson - Mutilation Is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery

Time: 0:52

Mutilation's the most

Sincere form of flattery

If you want to be me

Marilyn Manson - Mutilation Is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery

Logic - Clone Wars III

Time: 0:58

Comin' with assault and battery

Imitation is a form of flattery

Tryna make somethin' so original, you can't flatter me

Logic - Clone Wars III

The Used - The Best of 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

The Used - The Best of Me

GZA - Uncut Material

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

GZA - Uncut Material

Morray - Can't Use Me

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

Morray - Can't Use Me

Bright Eyes - Waste of Paint

Time: 0:30

Of color and composition, so magnificent

And he said, "Thank you, please, but your flattery

It is truly not becoming me

Bright Eyes - Waste of Paint

Turnpike Troubadours - A Lie Agreed Upon

Time: 2:32

I can't keep it to myself

I got the champagne and the flattery

To keep me busy

Turnpike Troubadours - A Lie Agreed Upon

The Black Crowes - Under a Mountain

Time: 1:37

Could be a look in her eyes

In need of flattery she changes batteries

So that her light will still shine

The Black Crowes - Under a Mountain

Metric - Oh Please

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

Metric - Oh Please

Malice - M.T.B.T.T.F.

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

Malice - M.T.B.T.T.F.

New Found Glory - Degenerate

Time: 1:24

You've earned your degree

Wise to know cheap talk from flattery

So I'd drop out

New Found Glory - Degenerate

The-Dream - Form of Flattery

Time: 1:27

No

Form of flattery

You say he sound like me

The-Dream - Form of Flattery

Chrisette Michele - Black Unicorn

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

Chrisette Michele - Black Unicorn

Moving Hearts - Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette

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,

Moving Hearts - Hiroshima Nagasaki Russian Roulette

Lil Tecca - FLOWERS

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

Lil Tecca - FLOWERS

Yelawolf - Over Here

Time: 3:15

Or my shoes, homie, you ain't ready

And if imitation is flattery, uh

I don't lack on the flattery

Yelawolf - Over Here

Aesop Rock - Charlie Horse

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

Aesop Rock - Charlie Horse

The Rolling Stones - Do You Think I Really Care

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?

The Rolling Stones - Do You Think I Really Care

Dolly Parton - Tried To Rock And Roll Me

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

Dolly Parton - Tried To Rock And Roll Me

LL Cool J - 10 Million Stars

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

LL Cool J - 10 Million Stars

Sheila E. - Next Time Wipe the Lipstick off Your Collar

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

Sheila E. - Next Time Wipe the Lipstick off Your Collar

Little Mix - Grown

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

Little Mix - Grown

Lush - Ladykillers

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

Lush - Ladykillers

The Psychedelic Furs - Shine

Time: 0:40

all i want to dream

flattery

days that never come

The Psychedelic Furs - Shine

Lisa Loeb - Truthfully

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,

Lisa Loeb - Truthfully

Runrig - Amazing Things

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

Runrig - Amazing Things

Joan Jett - If Ya Want My Luv

Time: 0:24

We are all the same

Save your flattery

Just take it easy

Joan Jett - If Ya Want My Luv

NOFX - My Sycophant Others

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

NOFX - My Sycophant Others

Dynamyte - Flattery

Time: 0:46

Every little word you speak

Feels a whole lot like flattery

Thank you (ooh)

Dynamyte - Flattery

Ho99o9 - Looking Like Meat

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

Ho99o9 - Looking Like Meat

The Cribs - Hari Kari

Time: 0:03

If you combine flattery

With a long history

The Cribs - Hari Kari

Pat Benatar - Little Too Late

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

Pat Benatar - Little Too Late

Sage Francis - Mutiny

Time: 3:00

You just a charity case

Begging for some sort of flattery, assault and battery

You think you madder than me

Sage Francis - Mutiny

Jimmy Buffett - Close The World At Five

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

Jimmy Buffett - Close The World At Five

Ebony Loren - Low Battery

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"

Ebony Loren - Low Battery

Buzzcocks - Love Battery

Time: 0:35

Never minces words

Don't discharge flattery

So don't listen to what you've heard, duh-ra, duh-ra

Buzzcocks - Love Battery

The Beautiful South - Baby Please Go

Time: 2:08

So a message from the wisest guy to broad

Is best like flattery ignored

Baby just let him go

The Beautiful South - Baby Please Go

Linda Davis - Some Kinda Woman

Time: 1:36

Me I'm gonna take it

As a form of flattery

Oh I must be some kinda woman

Linda Davis - Some Kinda Woman

Rasputina - Kinderhook Hoopskirt Works

Time: 1:09

What does it mean?

You hear no flattery

At the factory

Rasputina - Kinderhook Hoopskirt Works

Cold War Kids - Fashionable

Time: 4:32

A weird glowing green

And flattery won't get her

Out of her seat

Cold War Kids - Fashionable

Jeff Parker - Eaten Alive

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)

Jeff Parker - Eaten Alive

Planet P Project - A Boy Who Can't Talk

Time: 1:33

And they feed you with flattery

To get you to show them the things that you do

Planet P Project - A Boy Who Can't Talk

Lincoln Brewster - Made for More

Time: 0:31

Oh, I want more

I've never been much for flattery

So don't waste that kind of talk on me

Lincoln Brewster - Made for More

The Kinks - Dedicated Follower of Fashion [Alternate Take; Alternate Take]

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

The Kinks - Dedicated Follower of Fashion [Alternate Take; Alternate Take]