"Today we drink, today we spend; today we smoke like a rasta"
About this Quote
“Drink” and “spend” sit side by side on purpose. Pleasure isn’t only chemical; it’s transactional. This is the club as marketplace, where status gets purchased in real time and enjoyment is inseparable from consumption. The line is celebratory, but it’s also quietly anxious: if you have it today, you show it today, because tomorrow is not a guarantee.
Then comes the sly cultural shorthand: “smoke like a rasta.” Bad Bunny borrows an instantly legible symbol of weed culture and rebellious cool, but he does it in a way that signals performance more than theology. Rastafarian identity is condensed into aesthetic - a vibe you can put on for the evening. That’s the subtextual tension: global pop’s ability to remix cultural markers into nightlife accessories, even as the music itself is built from cross-pollination.
In the broader Bad Bunny context, the line sits comfortably in his catalog of hyper-present hedonism that doubles as commentary: Latin urban music as both escape hatch and reportage, documenting how joy gets manufactured when the world feels rigged.
Quote Details
| Topic | Live in the Moment |
|---|---|
| Source | "Hoy se bebe, hoy se gasta; hoy se fuma como un rasta" from song: Tití Me Preguntó, Un Verano Sin Ti (2022) |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bunny, Bad. (2026, January 30). Today we drink, today we spend; today we smoke like a rasta. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/today-we-drink-today-we-spend-today-we-smoke-like-184787/
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Bunny, Bad. "Today we drink, today we spend; today we smoke like a rasta." FixQuotes. January 30, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/today-we-drink-today-we-spend-today-we-smoke-like-184787/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Today we drink, today we spend; today we smoke like a rasta." FixQuotes, 30 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/today-we-drink-today-we-spend-today-we-smoke-like-184787/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.




