Kranium Thrills On ‘The Kelly Clarkson Show’ — Watch
Dancehall artist Kranium was a featured guest on The Kelly Clarkson Show on NBC on Friday (February 10). The Nobody Has To Know hitmaker performed Special Woman — one of the singles off his latest EP titled In Too Deep.
Kranium, who was joined by a live band for the performance, told DancehallMag that he’s always proud to represent Jamaican culture.
“Always proud to represent my culture and my music on some major platforms. I wanted to perform Special Woman, cause it’s the perfect song for Valentine’s season,” he said.
“It’s a dope song, produced by Unga from my EP In Too Deep.”
In Too Deep, which was released on November 18 on Atlantic Records, featured the other songs Without You (featuring Queen Naija), Paranoid, No Regret, 6ex In The Morning, Early In The Morning, and Wi Deh Yah.
To promote the EP, Kranium will be touring sections of the UK, Canada, and the United States.
This begins on March 29 in Birmingham, followed by Oxford on March 30, and London on March 31. He then heads to Manchester on April 2, Halifax, Canada on April 8, Boston, Massachusetts on April 20, and Brooklyn, New York on May 18.
In a tweet on Friday night, Kranium noted that his performance on The Kelly Clarkson Show was a taste of what is to come on the tour.
“A piece of What you get once you come to a kranium show .. quality,” he wrote.
Kranium, who was born in Montego Bay, St. James, migrated to the United States at 12. His Gold-certified single Nobody Has to Know which was originally released in 2013, was re-released in 2015 to feature American rapper Ty Dolla $ign. The video for that version has so far amassed 119 million views on YouTube.
Nobody Has To Know, which was produced by Lamar Michael Reynolds of PLMR Productions, peaked at No. 44 on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart. It was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in September 2019 for sales of more than 500,000 copies. It also copped a gold certification in Canada, after selling 40,000 copies, and silver in the UK with sales of more than 200,000.
Since 2015, Kranium has released several other hits including Can’t Believe featuring Ty Dolla Sign and Wizkid, the Risky Remix with Davido and Gal Policy, including a remix featuring Tiwa Savage.
In February 2021, he released another EP titled Toxic which included tracks such as Gal Policy, Block Traffic featuring Rytikal, Through The Window, and Won’t Judge.