I’m Not Gonna Lie

Every hear that expression? Someone is telling you a story or relating an incident and they preface an admission about something somewhat negative with “I’m not gonna lie”. As in, “I’m not gonna lie, I ran that red light officer”. Use of the phrase seems to imply that not lying is a great and noble act worthy of recognition and approbation, when it’s really just the minimum that you would expect interacting with others. “Wow!, you’re not gonna lie? Let me nominate you for the Nobel Prize! What’s next? “I’m not gonna pick your pockets”? “I’m not gonna disembowel you”?