Snow - Informer (Official Music Video) [4K Remaster]

You're watching the official 4K music video for Snow - "Informer" from the album '12 Inches of Snow'. "Informer" is sampled and Snow is featured in Daddy Yankee's "Con Calma".

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[savioblanc]

The 90s were a crazy time.
Middle class blacks, with intact families, belting out Gangsta Rap.
White guys from the projects rapping in Jamaican slang.
Indian dude from the Carribean calling himself Apache.
An Austrian who couldn't really speak English was the biggest star in Hollywood.
A black dude was the best golfer in the world.
I miss the 90s

[slaywee]

finally i found this you imagine the struggle when you don't know a single word of the song and only know how it sound.

[pmiskovic]

I'm 40 and I tell you when I first heard this song as a kid it was the coolest sounding thing ever. Still slaps to this day.

[falynn]

Sorry Drake but this guy is still the best rapper from Toronto.

[christophermorris]

My mama is a Jamaican old head. She told me when this song dropped, despite him being white, the Jamaicans loved him.

[aidang]

I can't wait until the english version comes out!

[Vicinltys]

the lyrics:Informer
You know say daddy me snow me I'll go blame
A licky boom boom down
Detective man said daddy snow I stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom boom down
Informer
You know say daddy me snow me I'll go blame
A licky boom boom down
Detective man said daddy snow I stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom boom down
Police-a them-a they come and-a they blow down me door
Break in an' crawl through, through my window
So they put me in the back the car at the station
From that point on I reach my destination
Well the destination reached in down-a East detention
Where they whip down me pants look up me bottom
So
Informer
You know say daddy me snow me I'll go blame
A licky boom boom down
Detective man said daddy snow I stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom boom down
Informer
You know say daddy me snow me I'll go blame
A licky boom boom down
Detective man said daddy snow I stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom boom down
So
Bigger they are they think they have more power
There on the phone me say that on every hour
Me for want to use it once and-a me call me lover
Lover who me callin'-a the one Tammy
And me love her in my heart down to my belly-a
Yes say Daddy Me Snow me I feel cool and deadly
Yes the one MC Shan and the one Daddy Snow
Together we-a love 'em as a tornado
Informer
You know say daddy me snow me I'll go blame
A licky boom boom down
Detective man said daddy snow I stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom boom down
Informer
You know say daddy me snow me I'll go blame
A licky boom boom down
Detective man said daddy snow I stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom boom down
So
Listen for me, ya better listen for me now
Listen for me, ya better listen for me now
When-a me rock-a the microphone, me rock on steady-a
Yes-a Daddy Me Snow me are the article don
But when i'm-a at a dance an they say, "Where ya come from?"
People them say I come from Jamaica
But me born and raised in the ghetto that's all I want ya to know-a
Pure black people man, that's all a man know
Yeah me shoes used to tear up an-a my toes used to show-a
Where me-a born is-a the one Toronto
So
Informer
You know say daddy me snow me I'll go blame
A licky boom boom down
Detective man said daddy snow I stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom boom down
Informer
You know say daddy me snow me I'll go blame
A licky boom boom down
Detective man said daddy snow I stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom boom down
Come with a nice young lady
Intelligent, yes she gentle and irie
Everywhere me go me never lef' her at all-ie
Yes-a Daddy Snow me are the roam dance man-a
Roam between-a dance in-a every nation-a
You never know say Daddy Me Snow me am a boom shakata
Me never lay-a down flat in-a one cardboard box-a
Yes-a Daddy Me Snow me-a go reachin' at tha top
So
Informer
You know say daddy me snow me I'll go blame
A licky boom boom down
Detective man said daddy snow I stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom boom down
Informer
You know say daddy me snow me I'll go blame
A licky boom boom down
Detective man said daddy snow I stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom boom down
Why would he?
Why would he, would he, would he?
Me sittin round cool with my dibby dibby girl
Police knock my door, link up my pal
Rough me up and I can't do a thing
Pick up my line when my telephone ring
Take me to the station, black up my hands
Trail me down 'cause I'm hangin' with the Snowman
What an I gonna do, I'm backed and I'm trapped
Smack me in my face, took all of my gap
They have no clues and they wanna get warmer
But Shan won't turn informer
Informer
You know say daddy me snow me I'll go blame
A licky boom boom down
Detective man said daddy snow I stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom boom down
Informer
You know say daddy me snow me I'll go blame
A licky boom boom down
Detective man said daddy snow I stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom boom down

[nighttempest]

Like Kendrick with the West Coast, this man Snow did more for Toronto/Canada culture than Drake ever did. Autheticly living what he sings about and repping Toronto constantly.

[drrockkso]

People call Snow a poser but he grew up in a Toronto housing project where most all of the other residents were Jamaican immigrants who organically influenced his cultural upbringing. He was surrounded by Jamaican people, music, slang, and accents growing up. And he also spent time in prison early in his career. The stuff he raps about isn't bullshit, it really happened. Snow may be a white, nerdy-looking Canadian dude but his music genuinely reflects his actual life experience.

It's ironic because some of the black icons of 90s gangsta rap like Ice Cube and Puff Daddy actually grew up in middle class families, attended mostly-white suburban private high schools, went to college, and weren't involved in crime or gangs. Snow has way more legit street cred than those guys do but he's forever stuck with the "poser" label simply because he's white and Canadian.

[sammysawicki]

Dude was casually roller skating down the street earlier today with this song bumping on the speaker hanging off his shoulder. Pure vibes. Listened to it like 10 times since.

[khanyisilephewa]

Guys the 90's were crazy!!! We had so many different textures and sounds when it came to rappers and voices. I miss this kind of diversity in music lately.

[patriotsakaalsalazar]

Everytime I hear this song. It bring me back in my early teens before I came and migrated in the US. This song was a big hit in the Philippines.

[Artstical]

The fact that Daddy Yankee got a hit from making a glorified cover of this theme, just proves how Informer is a timeless classic.

[aliyah]

Whoever can decipher the lyrics is a genius, this is one of those songs that is timeless and never gets old

[jackdaw]

He makes it seam so easy to perform this kind of songs, but I hardly can follow the lyrics right in front of me. Now all these decades later you really appreciate what you took for granted back then.

[davidbaclian]

Thanks to snow, as a child I thought that Canadians had Jamaican accents.

[doublep]

Some fun facts for the younglings here:
Snow, grew up in a housing project in Toronto/Canada and used to hang out with a Jamaican crew, who tought him to speak padois and gave him the nickname "Snow White" that later became "Snow".
The guy was a proper gangsta, he was actually in jail, for attempted murder, when the song was first released and became a local hit in Canada.
After he got out, the song went huge in the charts it was practically everywhere back in 1993, there´s even a parody by Jim Carrey from "In Living Color".
He could never repeat the success of "Informer" but is still performing as a MC and DJ and he also does lots of charity work in his old hood.

[frankwhiteviii]

If you weren’t from this time I can’t explain how absolutely hot this track was back in the day 💯

[intreoo]

The fact that literally no one can understand the lyrics and yet people are still listening to it shows just how good of a song this is

[The_Spiderrr]

If you know his backround, snow really was about that life believe it or not.