Nicky Jam dropped by Genius to dissect his latest hit “INSOMNIO.” The Jorgie Milliano produced song is the title track off the Nicky’s recently released album INSOMNIO. On today’s episode of Verified, the Latin artist discusses having insomnia, rumors, staying true to himself and more!
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00:00I do have insomnia.
00:06I don't sleep.
00:07I don't sleep at all.
00:08I know I have to sleep, but it's just for some reason I just gotta, I gotta motor, I
00:12gotta keep going.
00:13I can't stop.
00:20Yeah, so at the beginning of the song, I'm addressing a lot of stuff with people have
00:24been saying about me drinking and going crazy and partying and stuff like that.
00:28And I just thought I'm gonna take advantage of it and just express it through my art.
00:33It's a very sad song, but the way the beat is, it's an upbeat sad song.
00:37And that's Nicky Jam.
00:38If you listen to El Perdón, El Perdón is a very sad song, talking about this guy that
00:44he lost his girl.
00:45His girl's getting married with somebody else.
00:47And that's the magic of my music.
00:58See, that's the thing.
01:04It starts with giving the people what they want to hear about the situation, but then
01:08it goes through a whole different story.
01:10You know what I'm saying?
01:11And that's the magic of the song.
01:12You're going to listen to the intro and you're going to be like, oh shit, he's talking about
01:15what everybody's talking about.
01:17But then I'm just going to take you to a different story.
01:20And then you're going to think, oh, well, that's the situation.
01:22Not necessarily.
01:23I'm going to give you a little bit.
01:24I can't give it all.
01:26If you see my series on Netflix, I've gave people too much.
01:31And a lot of people don't give shit.
01:44That line right there is really important because what it's saying is, now I'm drinking
01:48and smoking again and losing everything I worked so hard for.
01:53Lose yourself.
01:54Lose your mojo.
01:55Lose a lot of things in life.
01:57So what I try to do is just, I try to keep focused, but at the end of the day, I try
02:01to be real.
02:02I try to be myself.
02:03If I have to stop being myself to be an artist, I'd rather stop being an artist.
02:13El case is the hood.
02:14El caserio.
02:15That's the projects.
02:16You can say in Puerto Rico, we call them caserio.
02:18I'm going around looking for you at the projects where I met you.
02:26Todavía tengo en casa esos pantisitos Fenty.
02:29You can imagine me still looking at those panties like it's all I got from her.
02:32You know what I'm saying?
02:33Like shit.
02:34Got the panties though.
02:35And the funny thing is, I didn't really know about Rihanna's brand, I ain't going to lie.
02:39But my boy, Kenneth, he was with me when I was writing the lyrics and I was thinking
02:43about Fenty, but it's like Fenty don't have panties.
02:46And then my boy was like, yo Fenty.
02:47I'm like, Fenty?
02:48What's Fenty?
02:49And then I asked my stylist, like yo, what's up?
02:50What's Fenty?
02:51He's like, yo, yeah, Rihanna's, you know, she got some panties and shit.
02:53I'm like, okay, this is perfect.
02:56Y así fue, yo perdí todo por ti, yeah, y aún así salgo por ti, yeah, no quería
03:05que te fueras y sigo pensando en ti.
03:08Y así fue, yo perdí todo por ti, yeah, y aún así salgo por ti, yeah, no quería
03:16que te fueras, me toca el insomnio solo por ti.
03:22It's the best album I've done.
03:24One of the best albums that I've done.
03:25And most of the songs, it was a nighttime thing.
03:28I was looking for a name and I wanted a name that would catch the people.
03:33And I said, insomnio.
03:35And when we did the song, we was like, we have to put the word insomnio in this song
03:41so we can name the song Insomnio.
03:43That's going to be the name of the song, name of the album, name of the tour, Insomnio.
03:54Well, that's a way to say, I'm the one that makes love to you and make you go to sleep.
04:18So it's like, even if you were somebody else, I'm that man, I know I'm that man.
04:23And I'm just trying to get her back, because even if you that man, you still lose a girl.
04:27The song is about that.
04:28It's like being like, you know, come on, you know I'm that man.
04:30You know I'm the man that puts you to sleep.
04:31You know I'm the man that you need on that bed.