MacDonald, Tom - Side Effects Lyrics






And we don't want drugs
Why isn't healthcare free?
When our therapists all need therapy
Don't need mental health awareness
Funded by the pharmaceutical terrorists
How can you help us if you can't relate to our feelings that you label symptoms to quantify treatment?
It's hopeless
Your company profile is bogus
You maximize profit by our diagnosis
Doctor's prescribing the pills are awarded a bonus but don't treat the ailments
Financial incentive has changed all our doctors to greedy commission based salesmen
Advertised on every single channel
Commercializing what we cannot handle
Marketing happened, it's targeting people with labels on bottles and logos like cattle uh

Shit don't change yeah
I been feeling pain yeah
Doctor sign his name yeah
Pharmacy a game yeah
I'm not living more, I'm dying less
And paying for it with side effects

All these side effects
From dollar signs on their minds yeah
I'm a mess
And they're just tryna sell me lies
With side effects
Your drugs don't even get me high
I thought dealing was a crime
Y'all just playing with my life
All these side effects
From dollar signs on their minds yeah
I'm a mess
And they're just tryna sell me lies
With side effects
Your drugs don't even get me high
I thought dealing was a crime
Y'all just playing with my life yeah

Feeling numb and indifferent
But my therapist listens
He makes notes in his book and I'm sure if I look I'd see names of prescriptions
I just can't escape it, this Ativan, Seroquel, Xanax solution to sicknesses
Corporate agendas have mixed with the wellness of people
Creating a culture of illnesses
All the benefits of modern medicine
And still I feed it down inside my skeleton
I might just let it win if I descend again
And end depression with a rush of adrenaline
I'm feeling electric, pathetic, lethargic
Exhausted and nauseous it's awful
I can't tell the doctor cause I'll leave his office
With bottles of pills that I struggle to swallow

Shit don't change yeah
I been feeling pain yeah
Doctor sign his name yeah
Pharmacy a game yeah
I'm not living more, I'm dying less
And paying for it with side effects

All these side effects
From dollar signs on their minds yeah
I'm a mess
And they're just tryna sell me lies
With side effects
Your drugs don't even get me high
I thought dealing was a crime
Y'all just playing with my life
All these side effects
From dollar signs on their minds yeah
I'm a mess
And they're just tryna sell me lies
With side effects
Your drugs don't even get me high
I thought dealing was a crime
Y'all just playing with my life yeah

They don't want me better, they don't want me dead
I got money to blow, there's a price on my head
Take me to the pharmacy
I never get what they promise me
Cause I'm feeling nothing except all these

All these side effects
From dollar signs on their minds yeah
I'm a mess
And they're just tryna sell me lies
With side effects
Your drugs don't even get me high
I thought dealing was a crime
Y'all just playing with my life
All these side effects
From dollar signs on their minds yeah
I'm a mess
And they're just tryna sell me lies
With side effects
Your drugs don't even get me high
I thought dealing was a crime
Y'all just playing with my life yeah





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  1. A.... T....

    You have horrible taste fr your list of rappers you actually like is garbage

  2. r.... ....

    Tom is one of the best and expresses relevant issues extremely well. WTG Tom!!

  3. g.... w....

    He speaks about what needs to be spoken on not drugs and other crap that wraps these young kids into self destructive tendencies

  4. G.... V....

    Lil Uzi deserves to be in top 10 especially if you consider leaks

  5. W.... ....

    It would be nice if at least one of these videos acknowledged MacDonalds' sense of humor and shitload of sarcasm in his lyrics. Taking it all at face value kind of misses the point, no? Of course he knows he's corny, duh.

  6. G.... W....

    Oh fuck off man, while I do enjoy Tom's music, I agree with alot of your criticism, but rating BELOW BLUE FACE????

    Blue Face is a living meme and one of the worst rappers of all time. Lets not get hyperbolic.

  7. h.... ....

    Someone who looks like a furry trying to diss Tom, LOL.

  8. D.... W....

    I couldnt understand your accent lol

  9. S.... T....

    Wow people really can't take constructive criticism 😂 it's his opinion man if you don't like that dislike the video and leave

  10. C.... S....

    People always hate people that tell the truth. I don’t agree with everything that dude says, Tom MacDonald, but most of what he says is right on point, especially the overly sensitive SJW shit, and hip-hop in general.

  11. D.... O....

    He sounds like the Joker on “Hangman”

  12. W.... H....

    100% disagree. This guarantees I never watch any more of your videos.

  13. 2.... ....

    Talk about not being insightful.. lol

  14. M.... C....

    It's funny u say he contradicts himself yet no proof or even any statement as to how he does.

    You say his lyrics are basically trash yet hes one of the only artists talking AGAINST drugs, talking about certain blacks hating whites for what someone did 500 years ago (which happens everyday I've seen it) which is why he made whiteboy for the people who hate on someone for someone else's actions.

    BEFORE u speak maybe research

    M.... C....

    Matt Carter I dunno man, I think listen to most of his music is enough research. Also, go back to Jaden Smith.

    M.... C....

    Also, have you even heard any of his hooks?

  15. M.... C....

    And someone else who dont understand his songs example ur understanding of white boy

  16. M.... C....

    This dude says he the worst rapper? 😂😂😂😂 dude prolly a mumble rap fan

    M.... C....

    He is though. The only two ok parts of his music were his flows and his beats.

    M.... C....

    @Meteor Cubing dude.... you are trippin. Every single one of his songs has meanings, and bars foh unlike that shit u listen to prolly

    M.... C....

    @Meteor Cubing name any song of his. Garuntee you I pull at least 3 bars out of it

  17. S.... J....

    Why you hate Tom so much he’s doing his thing

  18. S.... Z....

    Rap music is garbage

    S.... Z....

    Do you know what channel you’re on?

  19. Y.... F....

    digga du bist SCHEIßE

  20. M.... M....

    Tom has good messages in his songs... think you are just being alittle salty on him

  21. Y.... K....

    Still waiting for him to do one on suicideboys 😐

  22. H.... i....

    I got a gay rights ad right after u play straight white male

  23. A.... F....

    He's not a bad rapper he's not bad his lyrics has meaning lately

    A.... F....

    He is tho

  24. C.... M....

    He has a pretty fair critique but I still love Toms bars and flow. Love the beats and the videos. and no matter what ya think his music is still better than any of the mumble rap shit out today. lol

  25. C.... M....

    The video was kinda garbage but at least his facial hair game is on point lol

  26. B.... L....

    After listening to your music you should definitely shut the fuck up. You have no basis to criticize anyone much less Tom Macdonald.
    Dude, you completely suck. Completely unlistenable. And then your stupid punk ass is out here trolling for veiws and then trying to drive traffic to your music.
    Only your music sucks. No I mean it really sucks. Like there is NO hope. You could get 10 x better and I would still want to stab pencils in my ears to stop the torture. So bad that the song with the most views on YouTube that I could find was 35K, even after trying to drive traffic with weak ass trolling. LMFAO

    Dude, it's time to euthanize the rap dream like a 19 year old poodle. Why don't you go do fortnight shit? At least the 8 year old kids might not see through your bullshit. When you disappear nothing will change - nobody will know who the fuck you are!!!

    B.... L....

    He never said that his music was better than Tom's. You're pretty thin-skinned if this is how you react to someone sharing their personal and in-depth opinion on an artist you like. It's people like you that are the reason why CDTV said that he was gonna get push back on this video. Oh yeah and before you say the typical "BuT hIs SoNgS hAvE SoO mUcH mEaNiNg BeHiNd ThEm!!!!!!!!", to put it simply, just because you have a message in your song, doesn't automatically make your song good. It's how you present it and express it that matters and Tom just comes off as very confrontational and ignorant about the points he makes most of the time and expresses his topics as black and white with no nuance. But that's just my opinion my guy and if you respond to me like you did with Meteor Cubing, then all you're doing is proving me right. Grow up!

  27. B.... L....

    Who are you? NEVER heard of you ever? Weak analysis and you lose all credibility. Proving your stupidity every time you open your mouth.

    B.... L....

    He made a great analysis. He went through everything about his music and displayed his strengths and weaknesses

    B.... L....

    Hey you have a ghost account hey? Get back to your minecraft analysis.

  28. r.... a....

    Tom MacDonald is garbageeeee... Fuck him and anyone that says otherwise

  29. P.... D....

    You need to learn rap dude he uses a lot of sarcasm and he is one of the best singers

    P.... D....

    Channel checks out

    P.... D....

    @Meteor Cubing what

  30. U.... W....

    9:51 *Logic has entered the chat*

  31. C.... S....

    Mac Lethal Sucks was pretty great.

  32. g.... L....

    Tom is the best out

  33. T.... M....

    You can make fun but he’s doing a lot better than you you garbage pin fuck you

  34. T.... M....

    Fuck you

    T.... M....

    What an eloquent, well thought critique of the content of this video

  35. K.... B....

    When a soy boy does reaction videos.

  36. p.... o....

    he looks like Hellraiser lmao

  37. V.... S....

    Look at Tom now... j/s

  38. e.... c....

    Well I'm a straight white European female and I'm telling you ninnies y'all so f***ing triggered you can't see above your nose. Now go and cry! You bubble creatures!

    e.... c....

    I'm confused at how anyone can call someone else, even sarcastically or jokingly, a "bubble creature"

  39. J.... C....

    Y'all mfs try so hard to shit on Tom, especially when he puts out a controversial song that he spits nothing but truth in.

  40. R.... S....

    You sound like you listen too backstreet boys cause they are hard.

  41. d.... t....

    Where’s your music at bro ? You wanna critique everyone’s music they work hard as hell at and take a chance on recording and have the balls to put it out so people like you that live in your moms basement at almost 30 and never been laid can call it Trash lol this is modern day America right here bunch of sissies wanting to comment about what other people are trying to accomplish! Why don’t you just sit back and enjoy the music you like and turn it off if you don’t really any real rap fans going to listen to what this little scrawny white boy has to say about anything let alone rap lol

    d.... t....

    Wow, somebody's triggered

    d.... t....

    @Brian Lee Why does somebody need musical ability in order to criticise Tom MacDonald?

  42. g.... t....

    This guys sounds like a UK snowflakes

  43. P.... C....

    Bro say what you want but it sounds like your talking out of your ass.THAT mans a genius and one of the best artists i have heard in a long time .... Who are you... ?My long lost Scottish cousin running his mouth trying to be relevant.. 😂 I'll tell you one thing NY USA got this mans back. Yea, that's right, I speak for them ... O and wheres your skirt HO? I mean kilt...😉 #REALRECOGNIZEREAL

  44. C.... H....

    Yo what's your favorite raper?

  45. K.... M....

    Lmao your gay asf for tom

  46. G.... ....

    I'd pay for you to speak at my funeral

  47. A.... S....

    What do you MEAN. He spits nothing but truth

  48. 2.... T....

    bro this is trash

  49. A.... M....

    I think you should keep staying off YouTube. Would be huge help. Thanks

  50. J.... K....

    Might get some more understanding of "his ways" if you didn't treat the songs as a math equation or as if he tells his point of view to please you. Many of his newest song is FIRE, but I get the feeling that you might not get what he's doing. 🤔

  51. F.... -....

    Ngl, I quite like the Straight White Male hook

  52. M.... C....

    U do not sound like u should be reviewing rappers, I'd be willing to bet u nothing of the culture.. go review backstreet boys or whatever u preps listen to

    M.... C....

    Ooh salty Tom MacDonald fan located

  53. C.... S....

    He's white and he's proud!!! I died!

  54. s.... J....

    You just a hater because it's very obvious he has skill

    s.... J....

    Skill at embarrassing himself....?

  55. M.... H....

    I think Tom has some potential, it's just that he always misuses it or just kinda goes lowest common denominator. I do think that some of his "white boy opinions" are legitimate, especially because he's Canadian and you can get jail time or fined $40,000 for speech people find offensive.

    He's got some good stuff to say, but it's undermined by his hypocrisy and his poor musical choices. That being said, I think if he gets hooked up with the right people, he could get pretty good.

  56. K.... ....

    Can anyone tell me who TF this Wanker is and what expert background he has, cause never heard of him, P.S. he’s making this video because Tom blocked him, you can tell because not only did he say thats what happened and showed it but he put Him below Blueface who is trash and says when he Re ranks Lil Uzi he will be above Tom lol no Uzi is Trash too

    K.... ....

    so in this comment you’ve “never heard of me” but in your last comment you’re “unsubscribing” from me? which one is it? lmao

    K.... ....

    CDTVProductions, literally watched one video which I still never caught your name, so yeah have no idea who tf you are, a nobody, subscribed to give you a chance then came across this trash video that you probably posted because you’re butt hurt with a grudge and unsubscribed, all in a single two video sweep all in one day. Shows how much of a punk you are replying to this to begin with when you know you are wrong. Trash person with a trash page and proves it by selling out and pushing products as well as talking out their ass, prime example, saying Blue Face and even Lil Uzi Vert will re rank above Tom, complete BS because those “artists” are both trash AF, Bottom of the Barrel, only have fans because of younger peoples poor taste in actual talent.

    K.... ....

    @KillaKyle52 damn... i kinda don't care

    K.... ....

    KillaKyle52 your the one that seems butthurt






    No hate to Tom

  57. K.... ....

    For hating on a Great Rapper like Tom Macdonald and a little bit for Pushing Products i’m unsubcribing from this Trash Channel and quite literally just subscribed today and still have no idea who you are, just an annoying voiced hating ass Host that seems like he couldn’t rap and if he did my ears would bleed, don’t talk shit if you can’t do as good or better. Someone seems butt hurt and is doing this video from a grudge because he got blocked lol.

    K.... ....

    Thanks for letting us know, I was wondering if you'd unsubscribe or not, and the suspense was killing me.

  58. L.... B....

    Lol all the people offended by Toms music. Are exactly why rappers like him need to exist. I think it's hilarious that Black people can rap about being Black. But white rappers can't rap about being white? Nah fuck that. I mean how dare a White guy rap about being wrongfully labeled something, just because of the color of his skin ? I hope you haters stay mad lol.

  59. J.... M....

    I strongly disagree

  60. K.... L....

    Hey cdtv, hold this fucking L. Don't drop it, then you'll have nothing.

  61. l.... b....

    hummm who are you to judge rappers ?

    l.... b....

    someone who listens to music frequently. music is made to be listened to, so the listeners have the right to express how they feel about said music.

  62. L.... E....

    Lets hear you rap, fuck you got to say?
    Not a goddamn thing.
    Mr. Bond is the real real deal ho.

    L.... E....

    Right. So nobody can be a music critic unless they have similar or greater musical ability than the subject in question? So unless you are somehow implying you are a better rapper than Tom, you also can't have an opinion on his music and therefore can't criticize this channel for having one

  63. L.... E....

    John Lennon didnt write let it be btw. Paul did.

  64. L.... E....

    This guy is shitting on Tom because of politics.
    Sad.

  65. L.... B....

    "whether they're white, black, biracial, or otherwise"
    You had the perfect opportunity to slip in a picture of logic. And you didn't. Smh disappointed

  66. E.... ....

    Tom MacDonald is the rap game Ben Shapiro.

  67. W.... G....

    I think it’d be cool to see him analyze rappers like NF or even Joyner Lucas. They’ll probably have more to analyze. (I’m not saying NF and Joyner are bad, but I would wanna see him look into more serious lyricists because I think he’d have more to break down.)

  68. D.... T....

    Tom MacDonald reminds me of a poop and fart

  69. P.... I....

    La flame on top RAGERS RISE🔥🔥

  70. A.... ....

    You are such a dumbass😂😂😂

    A.... ....

    Wow, what a a stunning insult. I am sure he will never recover

  71. H.... h....

    I heard a rumor this guy is 4 feet is it true

    H.... h....

    Happy hour doc main
    Haha no, not even close

    H.... h....

    @Sweet Taters ok thank god it would be pretty ridiculous

    H.... h....

    Happy hour doc main - I can say he is over 6ft tho

  72. A.... S....

    As a long time Scottish hip hop fan I think it’s great to see another Scottish person be a legitimate voice for it these days, good on ye

  73. B.... D....

    I guess I won't be buying any ridge products for sponsoring this jack ass

  74. G.... N....

    Honestly, I used to be kind of a fan of him in his earlier days (my favourite of his is Wanna Be) but all his new stuff is just trash. I can agree with the message but man, I just can't get over how obsessed with himself he is or unnecessarily fucussed with being a white guy in the rap game despite there being numerous others. One of his newer tracks "I Wish" has a kid wishing he could be like Tom. *GROAN*

    G.... N....

    Stfu weeb

  75. M.... G....

    You are trash for trying to get clout on talking trash on someone doing better than you! 😭🤣😭

    M.... G....

    I recommend listening to some good artists

    M.... G....

    Michael Goodspeed ever heard of criticism??

  76. A.... R....

    This guys an idiot. I feel like Tom McDonald is taking over, especially in this era of mumble rap...

    A.... R....

    When they swallow the bar instead of raising it. Just saying.

    A.... R....

    https://youtu.be/sK_BwprqgRw

  77. J.... B....

    He sounds if mgk and little dicky and the Easter bunny from epic rap battles of history

  78. K.... Y....

    You're not too educated about Tom Macdonald I see, He never said that all non-white people hate white people. He's targetting the stereotypes who DO hate white people and they're a lot on a serious note. White people are very much blamed for things that we didn't do and again, I'm not saying EVERYONE hates white people, I'm speaking for the people who DO.

  79. R.... ....

    I watched this to hear your opinion, and I did hear it. I see him has a okay artist, I say artist because one of the lines of his song “I Hate Hip-Hop” says “How dare you call me a rapper when all these rappers have nothing left to say” here’s the lyrics on Genius

    Edit: I’ll agree he did say that enough rappers don’t care about depression and just want to sell their tracks and aren’t actually helping those going through the mental state

    https://genius.com/Tom-macdonald-i-hate-hip-hop-lyrics

  80. S.... D....

    I think its really funny how all the black people that review tom agree with tracks like white boy and all that and give him respect for daring to say it. meanwhile all the white kids try to shit on him for it. telling

  81. P.... ....

    1 opinion of many.

  82. B.... D....

    Tom MacDonald fans are insecure

  83. A.... D....

    I think he has the talent. Just is very cringe

    A.... D....

    I don' understand how he is cringe, like explain your reasoning lmao

    A.... D....

    Kodiak YT the guy has the word hog tattooed on his mouth if you don’t know why people would even consider him being cringy You’re probably just as cringe

  84. Z.... G....

    Well screw you, toms good

  85. V.... A....

    The only thing I'm going to say is if you find yourself hitting the block button you find yourself proving a lot of problems with my people would hate you and you're going to go out of your way to voice your opinion at least let people inform you of theirs and show the courtesy I can see why you are pushing on that topic with him but he doesn't want to constantly hear the negativity that goes with that why do you think some songwriters hate their music later interesting isn't it

  86. D.... N....

    Tom is the product of culture vulture

  87. D.... K....

    boy get your smurf lookin ass out of here

  88. L.... ....

    I had heard this dude before and just a few lines of hearing i hated him and now i know i was right. He brings nothing to the table that someone else cant do, thats why hell never be great.

  89. C.... T....

    who the fuck would sponsor a shit bitch

  90. J.... C....

    Well who the fuck are you? You wish you had 1/10 the talent Tom has .He's raps much better than you react.try to do something like Tom has.so fuck off Scotty.

  91. B.... F....

    STOP SHAVING YOURE PUBES AND STICKING THEM TOO YOURE FACE.....MAC LETHAL MUST HAVE SPONSORED THIS VIDEO.

    B.... F....

    First off, "your".
    Second of all, believe it or not, not only Mac Lethal but anybody with good taster in music recognises how terrible Tom is. Hopefully you will join us one day

  92. J.... W....

    Who else came down here to find the Tom McDonald fans

    J.... W....

    John Wakka damn bruh i don’t ever like TM but jeez get a life

  93. C.... B....

    Jesus fuck can you make a video without tom McDonald in it?

    C.... B....

    considering this was the first video i made on him and i’ve only made a total of two focusing on him... yes

  94. D.... B....

    Logic: Bobby/Mixed boy
    Tom: White boy
    NAV: Brown boy
    DeAndre Cortez Way: Soulja Boy

  95. S.... ....

    12:27 that's a logic beat lol

  96. B.... R....

    He must not be to damn bad
    Most of his songs have 2+ million views.

    B.... R....

    Because nothing bad ever got popular...?

    B.... R....

    Elysian Sounds No actually, I can’t name one underground musician who was undeniably bad and made it as far into their career(with success)as Tom Macdonald has

    B.... R....

    TFV Son he’s a popular meme dude lmao

  97. J.... S....

    His hooks been better

  98. I.... i....

    Logic be like 9:50

  99. J.... L....

    how the fucj does tom even has fans

  100. C.... ....

    Much love to the mad lads over at Ridge for sending me this wallet and sponsoring the video! You can go to:
    Ridge.com/2007
    and use the code '2007' for 10% off your order!

    C.... ....

    My lad I don’t think that is legal tender on the back of that wallet

    C.... ....

    If I buy your wallets, will my family come back?

    C.... ....

    He is fire. This kid is a lame. He went into this prejudging it obvious. He went in looking for something and found evidence to back this ideas up. Happens all the time.


    “Is as plain as his skin” ??????? Umm what?

    C.... ....

    Please react to his video they gonna kill me 🔥🔥

    C.... ....

    CDTV can you do calvin scruby next? I think he's underrated but good!