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Life's Pleasures Quote by Bad Bunny

"Today we drink, today we spend; today we smoke like a rasta"

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Bad Bunny’s line doesn’t romanticize indulgence so much as clock it, like a timestamp stamped onto a night out: today. Not forever, not even “this season” of life - just right now, while the mood is hot and the money is moving. The repeated “today” works like a drum pattern: it accelerates the scene and narrows the moral horizon. You can hear the urgency of a generation raised on instability - economic, political, emotional - turning the present tense into a survival strategy.

“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

TopicLive 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.

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Bad Bunny

Bad Bunny (born March 10, 1994) is a Musician from Puerto Rico.

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