WHAT IT MEANS: Cray essentially means crazy. It is used to describe situations that are out of control and just plain unbelievable. This is normally used in a positive light, not used in terms of someone actually being insane.
ORIGIN: Cray, while most people think it's just a lazy person's way of saying crazy, actually derived from Kanye West and Jay-Z song N***as in Paris. The lyrics go, "ball so hard, mother******s wanna find me, that s***t kray, that s***t kray, that s***t kray." The fact that "Kray" is spelled with a K instead of a C is not simply a typo. It is the last name of twin brothers Ronnie and Reggie Kray. Ronnie Kray was a paranoid schizophrenic, but despite this the brothers were some of the most powerful British gangsters. They created a gang known as "The Firm" and were involved in armed robberies, arson, assaults, torture and even murder. The Kray twins evaded the police many times, but were eventually arrested in May of 1986.
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