When it comes to sex, dancehall star Kranium doesn’t hold his tongue.
The Montego Bay-born singer gets explicit on his hit record “Nobody Has to Know,” which was bubbling for two years before Ty Dolla $ign hopped on the remix. Yet while the song is about keeping his own bedroom exploits on the down low, he recently unpacked his thickly accented Jamaican Patois for Genius so everyone can know what he’s talking about.
“A lot of people who are just being introduced to the record are like, ‘The melody is sick as fuck, but we don’t know what he’s saying,’” Kranium reveals.
Kranium goes line for line, dissecting raunchy rhymes like, “When mi use mi cockey, play guitar wit your lungs,” explaining its meaning as: “When I’m inside, you feel that thing rubbing against the inside of your belly. It’s very raw.”
But still, he promises discretion in verse one: “Every time you come a mi yard/You a worry and your man deh a your yard.” Kranium explains:
“The first verse is about me trying to get her to be comfortable to give me what she said she wants to give me. ‘Yard’ means ‘house.’ Every time you come to my yard, you’re worrying about your boyfriend that is at your house. You don’t have to worry about that because I got you. My doors and windows are closed so you can’t see what’s going on inside.”
“In dancehall music, we’re very rough,” Kranium adds. “We’re very straight to the point, we’re very blunt. That’s what makes dancehall music fun because we don’t hold anything back. We just lay it out. We don’t try to sugarcoat anything, we just go straight into it.”
Peep the “Nobody Has to Know” page to see the raw lyrics, verified by Kranium.
“I guarantee you when you listen back to the record now, everything is going to be so simple.”
Listen to the full audio of Kranium breaking down “Nobody Has To Know” here.
