Nipsey Hussle - Status Symbol
Time: 0:31
Visualizing hella cheese you can smell the weed
Niggas doubt pessimism ain't affecting me
Fuel to the fire took it higher than they ever see

having a negative outlook; the feeling that things will turn out badly
Heard in 37 songs (18M+ combined views) — most famously in "Status Symbol" by Nipsey Hussle.
Updated August 19, 2026
Time: 0:31
Visualizing hella cheese you can smell the weed
Niggas doubt pessimism ain't affecting me
Fuel to the fire took it higher than they ever see

Time: 0:28
Who sucks competition (oh-oh)
Call it pessimism, December is a prison
It just makes me miss him

Time: 1:23
All my haters' twistin' keeps me spinnin' 'round for days (days)
Exorcism, pessimism has arisen
There's no reason, really treason to myself, so silly

Time: 2:10
Normal ain't normal, ordinary is a luxury
People say, "Woo, pessimism" what the other me
If you wanna understand, you stand under
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Time: 2:41
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Pessimism is a killer
Pessimism is a killer

Time: 1:04
But you'll love me all the same
I found pessimism, I found skepticism
I've been the corner performer and sung in front of millions

Time: 2:38
Bring on the competition
Your pessimism only makes me stronger
I am the culmination

Time: 0:54
Neo-McCarthyisms, new colonialisms
Pessimism mess they is in
Hoodooism, hypnotism, egoism, realism, humanism, legalism

Time: 2:29
You got everything you've wanted, now you're gonna blow it
'Cause you're scared of tripping on your pessimism
But I don't call the shots, I report to my thoughts, they're unrelenting

Time: 2:41
As all hope turns to black
Of pessimism and paradox
♪

Time: 0:36
Watchin' you sink into the depths of opportunism
Missin' the point, music's about love not pessimism
I'm SA moving supreme and on my team

Time: 1:33
Mass media
Mass pessimism
Mass denial

Time: 2:47
Cos even when the world has fallen on top of me
Pessimism is an emotion, not a philosophy
Knowing what's wrong doesn't imply that you're right

Time: 0:38
Baby, you should know that
I don't need your criticism, pessimism
I've been keepin' it on the DL

Time: 2:05
You know the bucket list, I finally climbed the rock, made it to the top of the precipice
I came from the pessimism of inner city as it is
Accident prone youth, adult say don't take a chance

Time: 0:00
Your pessimism is drowning me out
I keep on screaming but you're holding me under

Time: 2:02
Uncover your own future, ignore the losers words
Endure the pessimism, projections of the timid
Escape the dreary confines of your present circle

Time: 1:28
We reaching outwards tryna grab what we can find in us, Whole time...
You decide your own, you can make your own way, pessimism won't stay,
It ain't always candles and cakes,

Time: 0:59
It used to be so squeaky clean
It ain't my fetish to extend this pessimism or blow rain clouds over your scene
I got the notion, I got the feelin'

Time: 7:05
The residents in the meadow of pestilence
Who developed a chemical dependence on pessimism, now
Is he is, or is he ain't

Time: 1:25
Opposition, terrorism, every word creates division
Cynicism, pessimism, no no no to nihilism
Politicians, television, everybody's on a mission

Time: 1:03
Pessimism aside, I'll search to the edge of the earth just to find the,
Enchantment of her voice in perfect rapture.

Time: 0:15
Like fuck it though, what's up
Pessimism is all that she know
Cause every brother she go with always pick up and go

Time: 0:39
Trajectory, no turning back
New pessimism, new layers of crime
Sterilize the undesirables

Time: 1:11
♪
Now the pessimism in me yawns
As I'm pissing on their perfect front lawns

Time: 1:07
We never know, we just go, and that's life, it's not right
I don't wanna live in pessimism, giving all of my attention away
Friendships fade, people change, and that's just how it is

Time: 1:03
♪
I'm a believer in a healthy dose of pessimism
'Cause expectations are just resentments waiting to happen

Time: 0:59
My feet are my limousine and they take me
through the shakes down on Pessimism Street
Sometimes I feel so dirty and cheap

Time: 1:22
It's my own degradation it's my own self hate
I preach my pessimism
Right out loud to anyone who'll listen

Time: 1:08
Which suits them fucking fine
Mister pessimism, a trait we'd all rather give up
Mister pessimism, after this it comes so natural

Time: 0:14
Pessimism vaccine
(You need it)

Time: 0:57
The next one even worse
That's not called pessimism
It's just the truth that hurts

Time: 1:16
Optimism looks up counts the stars
Pessimism looks down and counts cracks
That Monday morning moaners club

Time: 1:16
Optimism looks up counts the stars
Pessimism looks down and counts cracks
That Monday morning moaners club

Time: 1:16
When I'm wrong again, I'll make up something new
Pessimism fed by the media
Always something around the corner

Time: 1:42
I used to think criticism was the definition
Fish swimming up a river full of pessimism
I want to catch one barehanded

Time: 0:28
You can't take, take, take, take away what Jesus gave to me
Pessimism's cute as hell when you live luxuriously
I'm influential, influential, I know I'm disturbed
