by NEXTIME
Contains explicit language.
“Svetlana!” is a song by the Russian rapper Nextime, released in November 2025. A short clip of it went viral on TikTok before the official release, and the track went on to reach the top 10 of Russia's TopHit streaming chart. The lyrics are crude and sexually explicit from start to finish, so this page carries an explicit language note and its word list leaves the rude vocabulary out. In our translation the singer heads to a dive bar because, he says, the expensive clubs are full of fakes. There he meets Svetlana and says he might fall in love, even though they only met that day. He gets suspicious when she asks for a taxi that is not going to her home, decides she has tricked him, a thug from the Urals, and swears it will not happen again.
Koinei's own English translation. The original Russian lyrics are not shown on this page: open the reader to follow them word by word with the audio.
Here's a song just for the clubs, let's go
I'm heading to the dive bar because expensive clubs are full of fakes
I've loved breasts since my two favorite toys
My dick loves to dance right on your tongue
My little guy woke up popping out of
Calvin Klein
Your ass is like a globe,
I can't believe, you're not a tramp
Overall, your figure is hotter, than any porn star
Maybe I'd fall in love, even though we just met today
But I got suspicious, when you asked for a taxi not to your home
She's a hooker, blown everyone
Why did I drink with her from the same glass
Svetlana, you tricked me
I won't give her my banana again
Tricked a thug from the Urals?
Unbelievable, this only happens in bad TV shows
I take two and screw them
What, did you blow? Look not with your ass not your ass
My T9 automatically finds you a replacement
But my T9 isn't nine, it's a damn log
I could even handle your attitude, you're a bitch, but
But I got suspicious, when you asked for a taxi not home
(repeat the 4 lines from “She's a hooker, blown everyone”)
| Word | Say it | Meaning | Type | In the song |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| специально | spetsialno | specially | adverb | специально; here “especially” |
| клуб | klub | club | noun | клубов: genitive, plural, masculine; here “clubs” |
| любить | lyubit | to love | verb | любил: past, masculine, imperfective; here “loved” |
| влюбиться | vlyubitsya | to fall in love | verb | влюбился: past, masculine, reflexive; here “fall in love” |
| знакомый | znakomy | familiar | adjective | знакомы: plural; here “known” |
| напрячься | napryachsya | to tense | verb | напрягся: past, masculine, reflexive; here “tensed” |
| попросить | poprosit | to ask | verb | попросила: past, feminine, perfective; here “asked” |
| такси | taksi | taxi | noun | такси: accusative, singular, neuter |
| дом | dom | house | noun | дома: genitive, singular, masculine |
| стакан | stakan | glass | noun | стакана: genitive, singular, masculine |
| Урал | Ural | Ural | noun | Урала: genitive, singular, masculine; here “Urals” |
| невероятно | neveroyatno | incredible | adverb | невероятно; here “incredibly” |
«бы влюбился» (by vlyubilsya) “would fall in love”
Russian makes the conditional with the particle бы and a past-tense verb, whatever time is meant, so бы влюбился can mean “would fall in love” or “would have fallen in love”. The verb still shows gender: a man says влюбился, a woman влюбилась. The singer uses the same pattern again later with смог, in the line “I could even”.
«до дома» (do doma) “to the house, home”
До means “up to” or “as far as” and always takes the genitive, so дом (house) becomes дома. A taxi до дома is simply a taxi home. Here дома is stressed on the first syllable; stressed on the last, the same letters spell the plural “houses”. Two everyday phrases with the same preposition: до утра (until morning) and до свидания (goodbye, literally “until we meet”).
«с Урала» (s Urala) “from the Urals”
Most places take в (in) and из (from), but some regions, islands and mountain areas take на (on) and с (off, from) instead. The Urals are one of them: на Урале means “in the Urals” and с Урала “from the Urals”, with Урал in the genitive after с. Learn the pairs together: в Москве, из Москвы, but на Урале, с Урала.
«попросила» (poprosila) “asked for”
Russian past-tense verbs agree with their subject in gender and number, not in person. Попросила, “asked for”, ends in -ла because the person asking is Svetlana; a man would say попросил. The narrator is a man, so his own verbs take the masculine form, like пил (drank). That is why the pronoun can drop out: the ending already tells you who did it.
Translation, word notes and commentary by Koinei. Rights holders: see Copyright and takedown requests.