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.
I think that is really cool, but sad for snow if it was the other side of 2000 he would have been shot..I'm glad his big mouth didn't get him killed when I was a kid..
He makes it seem 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.
Daddy Yankee did a Spanish version of this song featuring Snow back in 2019, it was a big hit. The video is pretty cool. Katy Perry also covered the song. And back in the 90s "In Living Color" spoofed the song in a hilarious skit with Jim Carrey.
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.
I think rap and music in general is more diverse than ever, you just gotta be willing to find it. Ski Mask the Slump God, J.I.D, JPEGMAFIA, Zillakami, Trippie Redd. None of these rappers sound alike. I could go on and on.
Thats a true story. Hes been busted a few times. He also did 2 yrs in prison. He aquited for attempted murder on another case. When the video actually dropped and wad aired on TV, he was in jail. That's a true story. He didnt see the finished video until when he was in jail and it came on the tv in there. @@HolyShnikeez_1975
@@dannonyogurt98grew up in the projects with Jamaicans, they encouraged him To make music like this. He was facing an attempted murder when this dropped talking about “informers”, that’s how it’s not an act. He was in jail pending serious charges, when a song dropped about informers…. There’s white g’s too
@@dannonyogurt98 all you white saviour wannabes come in and defend any race and commending them from mixing and combining cultures. Yet when whites grow up around and influenced by what they become and its primarily associated with other races cultures you become pure vile hate filled vultures ready to pick apart dismiss them and call them a racist. So what's the difference? 100% guarentee they adore him and his music. Learn to live in love for once and become a human being
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
There are tons of White Jamaicans. That's like saying even though Drake is Jewish and Black, Canadians still love Drake 🤣. Jamaicans come in every race, just like Canadians. I mean look at Tesanne Chin, winner of the "The Voice" - she is Chinese Jamaican and was a national hero when she won that. Jamaicans claim her as one of their own, race has nothing to do with it. People get ethnicity and nationality mixed up so much. Nationality has nothing to do with your race.
I'm glad it came out when it did. I think the soft minded fools of today would scream cultural appropriation. Such a good tune, also what an album name 12 Inches of snow. Pure genius. Weather report, the size of his vinyl record and erm... Well.
@@ani_n01 lol yeah I can. I got the chorus just be listening and being aware of Jamaican patios. Then just get on Google, once you've read the lyrics once whilst listening it's easy. It's basically a story of someone informing the police that snow stabbed someone. So he is threatening to hurt/kill the informer. Lick his bumbum down.
Hey you... don't laugh, not just anyone can speak english like Motherlanguich. Try to learn French or German in Europe, they are at home and show you who's the loser.
When I was a kid, my two older cousins impressed the heck out of me that they could keep up with this song. Now I know they were just spouting gibberish that sounded similar.
I was living in a hostel in mid 90s and my friend had this album and we used to play it end to end at the highest volume. I miss those crazy times. 90s forever...
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.
I was in Jamaica a couple of years ago. They love him there. One of my favorite artists. Even back then. You got always a strange look when you say you are a fan.
You dont just learn to speak jamaican out of nowhere, I think it's one of the most fascinating things to listen to, I used to listen to jamaicans talk in prison and get so lost in them talking lol
(From memory. MTV put the lyrics up back in '93 or so) _Informer, you know say daddy me Snow me_ _I go blam._ _A licky boom-down._ _'Tective man he say say daddy me Snow stab._ _Someone down the lane._ _A licky boom-boom down._ Moving lyrics indeed. Up there with Simon & Garfunkel.
@@lewis72 "from memory" ...right😂 its not much work to type in snow informer lyrics. For u to memorise tht for over 20 yrs is very unlikely cause most of the sentences make no sense in real patwah (jamaican english dialect) he just adds some unnecesary "me's" , distorts the sentence structure and calls it jamaican.
@@FlashxSounds 😆 Are you now telling me what I do and don't know ! It's not as though I haven't heard that track in 20 years and it didn't just come back to me hearing it just then. I don't even know if what I typed matches what the internet gives.
Spend a second researching this guy. His upbringing and background in music is legit. No one made him like a boy band. He actually worked pretty hard to achieve what he has.
there are idiots in this world who think people need to get permission from them to make music or grow up in or grow to love a certain culture... the question whether he was legit was itself never legit to begin with.
Vanilla Ice killed the chance Snow had to completely cross over in here the States. Plus Darien was on probation on a Weapon’s charge in Toronto. It’s a damn shame really. Snow had TONS of Street Cred while Vanilla Ice had NONE.
@Congolese Capitalist It was meant as a joke/half-sarcasm. I'm not familiar with too many Canadian rappers. I am not fond of Drake, however. Snow might be a one-hit-wonder, but Informer is absolutely fire.
In 1994 he came to Rome to do a show. I was only 14 years old and I didn't know him and his work. At that time I was working in a CD store and I used to go there after classes. He walked in with two other guys and asked to see his own CD. When I handed it over, I realized it was his face on the cover. He laughed, bought the CD and gave it to me!
when I was 4, my parents bought me a record player & let me play a stack of 78s that they had. this was one of them. I'm 62 now & this is one of my top 10 favorite songs of all time.
At the age of 43 finally this song makes 5% more sense than it did when I was 14. Edit: Thank you for all the likes and comments, I'm apperaciatevice that I'm not alone, we are in this together Gen X, much love.
I wasn’t necessarily a fan of snow, but I’m from Toronto, born and raised…. And I have mad respect for him. This is how the 90’s were in Toronto. Everyone hung out together and for the most part got along. Those really were the best times!
Take me back to the 90s any fucking day when racism didn't exist because demokkkrats wasn't trying to devide everyone to devide and conquer for a fact .I would live the rest of my life happily in the 90s
This is a classic. I grew up in Mumbai, India. We were in high school when this came out and was all the rage. I learnt the rap bit and was good at it. When I broke that out at parties, I got all the attention from the girls! :))
Music is amazing. I hear this song and it's 1993 all over again. 22 years old, recently arrived in Japan, nothing on the agenda other than making a few yen and going out at night. Pretty sure I met my wife with this thumping in the background. 30 years, 3 kids later and I can still feel it all like yesterday.
I got to Japan in 1991. Was there for 8 years the first time. All these years and a couple of kids later. Such a good time. The music around the clubs at the time is still some of the best.
This song will forever be dope af. Killer beat, killer rhymes, and this man is such a unique talent. I always loved this song since it came out in the 90's.
@@mcgavinclapping9490 Since when is reggae something you can "steal"? If we're talking about the song, snow didn't steal it from anybody, it's an original song.
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
@@Koschei_ The funny thing is in a way he kinda STILL about that life because he took the path that most gangsters old enough to retire do- Philanthropy. Man lives in Jamaca and helps build (in terms of money and physical labor) houses with modern infrastructrure, especially in regions that often get hit by hurricanes, now. He's basically beloved in the community because they already fucked with him heavy and now he's paying it forward.
for those that think this is fast English.. He's speaking Jamaican patois.. he grew up in public housing when Jamaicans were coming in. he gained quite a reputation to say the least
@@LimeyLassen the word patois works well for some "dialects" in France. It's kind of an universal definition for the language spoken in each region. For example in the North thei have the CH'TIS, in the East something else, the Bretons etc.
People hate all they want the fact that Bro is accepted by the Jamaicans speak volumes. He actually put that work in and did that dirt, big Up to Brethren.
My husband and I danced to this in Malta on honeymoon in 1993. Brilliant holiday. Still married beautiful daughter and celebrating our 30th anniversary next yr
Fuvk my comment was deleted cause i skipped the ad was sth neurotic bout them old times for me theyll be always 10 years ago afterwards everything went shit crisis and panic and crippling the basic rights no one nowadays it seems is open minded and can take a joke dang these generations after 2000 are complete under control and have an egoist object and worldly outlook only focused on papers called cash. Backthen we hung out with everybody groups of people ages from 12 to 25 all sharing booze. It was mostly pressureless living and really connect with all people today people meet and text while sitting infront of each that lil handy computer that helps them to hide in every situation thats mildly uncomfortable. I hope 2090 will be a reloaded version of the 90's careless party times
Funny thing is I know all the words and I'm not Jamaican or anything I'm from California. Back in the 90s they used to have a version of this video that ran captions at the bottom. I studied that version until I could understand everything he's saying lol
I can understand because my dad is from the Caribbean Jamaica, I've been there four times and I can speak patois which is Jamaican language, its like broken English and my mum is British and can speak it too I was born here in the UK!!
@@irishcountrygirl78 I guess been from the Caribbean I always heard: "Informer, You know say that a me a Snow, ah go Blame, I lick ya boom boom down." Basically somebody snitched and he's gonna get them. Lyrics I read online are wild! 😆 🤣 I'm not so sure though
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.
He looks like that one friend that always download some games, had all the cracks and fixes for your computer and basically was a older nerd that used to talk more with your older brother and then you hearing he is in jail for attempting murder and rolling with thugs xD
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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.
I have no idea how i ended up here.
Lol, that was prolly my BF. He likes to just roller skate around, blasting Snow on his WalkMan. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Lol l@@nbsoboleski
@@franciscocampas8329 hahahaha, yes!! The image in my head is KILLING ME right now!! 😀
@@nbsoboleski felicitalo! De mi parte. 😯 ¿Tu novio usá *Walkman* ? Mis respetos. Quiero apoyarlo también ¿Pero donde levanto uno?
finally i found this song.......can you imagine the struggle when you don't know a single word of the song and only know how it sound.
slaywee I typed the song that sounds like calma 😂😂😂
😂
Ann-Marie Hall A-Affoh lol I typed white guy that sounds Jamaican singing in the 90s
That's exactly how we non-English speakers feel everytime we hear a song in Emglish but can't look it up simply because we don't know the words.
I think that is really cool, but sad for snow if it was the other side of 2000 he would have been shot..I'm glad his big mouth didn't get him killed when I was a kid..
He makes it seem 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.
you're out of your mind if you think the doof in the video actually recorded the vocal track
@@jonnie2badHe did. He actually recorded a lot of songs, dont be ignorant
@@jonnie2bad Playback even more so impressive
Daddy Yankee did a Spanish version of this song featuring Snow back in 2019, it was a big hit. The video is pretty cool. Katy Perry also covered the song. And back in the 90s "In Living Color" spoofed the song in a hilarious skit with Jim Carrey.
*i can hardly
This man's flow was sicker than most rappers today 😎
I don’t think I’ve heard much in awhile that’s as catchy and got some technique.
True
@@madchops82welcome to jamrock
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.
"SLAPS"..."iM 40"...What did you call old people who used modern lingo when you were 20 >?>? :)
@@LigitandMeyers Funny thing is, slaps was lingo when he was 20. Did you think it was a new word?
Rite on rite on
Right! Same here
Same here my friend ❤
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.
I think rap and music in general is more diverse than ever, you just gotta be willing to find it. Ski Mask the Slump God, J.I.D, JPEGMAFIA, Zillakami, Trippie Redd. None of these rappers sound alike. I could go on and on.
I'm 43 and so happy I grew up in the 90 s. We had rap rock grunge cars were still cheap. Trucks were tuff.
Fr.. but snoop always hating
Everything pretty much was better in the 90's.
It’s out there just gotta find it ! 💯🏆👏🏽
I can't wait until the english version comes out!
There is a Spanish version
Salah ad-Din yeah, which have more x100+ more visits than this lmao.
There actually is one it’s called imposter
@@larrymcjones yeah, but its an parody
JeeDog I want to see a French version since this song came from Canada
This guy was actually behind bars when his video first dropped. This isn't an act.
Yup all the jail scenes in this vid are actually from a real county jail 😂
He was a Canadian with Irish ancestry. How is it not an act?
Thats a true story. Hes been busted a few times. He also did 2 yrs in prison. He aquited for attempted murder on another case. When the video actually dropped and wad aired on TV, he was in jail. That's a true story. He didnt see the finished video until when he was in jail and it came on the tv in there. @@HolyShnikeez_1975
@@dannonyogurt98grew up in the projects with Jamaicans, they encouraged him To make music like this. He was facing an attempted murder when this dropped talking about “informers”, that’s how it’s not an act. He was in jail pending serious charges, when a song dropped about informers…. There’s white g’s too
@@dannonyogurt98 all you white saviour wannabes come in and defend any race and commending them from mixing and combining cultures. Yet when whites grow up around and influenced by what they become and its primarily associated with other races cultures you become pure vile hate filled vultures ready to pick apart dismiss them and call them a racist. So what's the difference? 100% guarentee they adore him and his music. Learn to live in love for once and become a human being
The fact that Daddy Yankee got a hit from making a glorified cover of this theme, just proves how Informer is a timeless classic.
right
Daddy yankee its garbage
And now that version is plain dead and probably this will still trascend another 30 years.
thats right, for the record, Snow's participated in Daddy Yankee last version song, which achieved great success
fk that porto rickan or da fk his T3 country is called
If you weren’t from this time I can’t explain how absolutely hot this track was back in the day 💯
Yes sir the radio gave this major play miss them days
Amen! Still jamming in 2021
I was and I know 😜
Classic.
Cassingle
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
Yep
Verdade
and no one cared. Just wasn't an issue. Any of it.
@@caribstu Because hate didn't make them money
There was a hip hop group from New York called Young Black Teenagers. They were young, but not black. The 90s were definitely a weird time.
He speaks the way doctors write
hahaha best comment
I can still hear my dad yelling down the hall “ if I hear a licky moo moo cow one more time “” 😂😂 oh the good old days
Lol 😁
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🤣🤣🤣
Dude, you win the internet for the day with this comment! 😂😆
😂🤣
Still vibing to this in 2024
Big facts bro, better then the shit they play now a days
Me toooooo
back when people used technology to good use
Yepppp
Have this on repeat all day such a great song
My mama is a Jamaican old head. She told me when this song dropped , despite him being white, the Jamaicans loved him.
Bro was making waves
Never knew til just now
July 3rd 2024
Mind blown
There are tons of White Jamaicans. That's like saying even though Drake is Jewish and Black, Canadians still love Drake 🤣. Jamaicans come in every race, just like Canadians. I mean look at Tesanne Chin, winner of the "The Voice" - she is Chinese Jamaican and was a national hero when she won that. Jamaicans claim her as one of their own, race has nothing to do with it. People get ethnicity and nationality mixed up so much. Nationality has nothing to do with your race.
I don't see why race plays a role in Jamaica. I honestly met. Chinese Jamaicans
Because bro was spitting straight 🔥
The art of rap and reggae.
This is the song, what wasn’t recommended. Let’s be honest. We found it.
And this is brilliant
No, I don't think so. You know or you don't. Simple as that.
ok, I'll admit it: I come to RUclips to watch videos.
There. I said it.
What does it say that my algorithm brought me here...
I don't know how 😊
I'm going to play Milli Vanilli and Peter Andre after this
Yep
Heard it as a "In Living Color" parody and wanted to see the source. Confused as all hell, but not disappointed. 😅
Almost 30 years... and still slamming!
I heard snows looking for you!
@@levihershiwitz3590 word?
@@RYU583 yeah, he came around lookin for both of you the other day..said something about blowing bubbles
Right!? I played it out of nowhere expecting a chuckle at the corniness but I was like "holy shit, this sounds sick."
How about Mc Shan.... Is wack 😴
Whoever can decipher the lyrics is a genius, this is one of those songs that is timeless and never gets old
Or, they know Jamaican lingo...licky boom boom down means to beat or shoot someone. That is what the song is about, putting down an informer.
“I have been accused of stabbing somebody, and now I’m in jail! Whoever told the police that I did this is going to get it, whenever I get out!”
the song is about not ratting, snow despite being a joke in the 90s was really bout it lmao
"Detective mon say me Daddy Snow me stab somebody down the lane." - "This police office claimed I stabbed some fellow from down the lane."
He clearly saying informers yousnoladadammisacalabamm I lucky poon poon now😅
Snow was a wicked lyrical genius the speed, the flow and defying the naysayers on his Jamaican flow....no words, bro you did us proud!!❤❤
Okay but why is he a white guy sounding Jamaican? Reminds me of someone i know
@@Wtfincwoah super fresh comment my dude 😂
There is a bunch of white people in Jamaica....@@Wtfinc
@@Wtfinche grew up in a part of Toronto with a large Jamaican community
Why did he talked like he was Jamaican tho? Do you think that's something respectful? Faking it so hard
Big masterpiece actually. We will never forget this gem.
It really is. This and Jump Around by House Of Pain.
I'm glad it came out when it did. I think the soft minded fools of today would scream cultural appropriation. Such a good tune, also what an album name 12 Inches of snow.
Pure genius. Weather report, the size of his vinyl record and erm... Well.
back when memes werent called memes yet
Song is a banger but snow is underrated everyone appreciate informer but ignore his other songs
2021 Mar 13 - still rocking to this round da house
Expectation: A Jamaican gangster
Reality: John from accounting
@-Lloyd- hahahaha good 1
😂
@-Lloyd- facts 🤣
Lmaooo
I pictured it...
Canadian Jamaican with a hard edge. Now that is the way
He is not Jamaican he is from north York and lived in Ontario housing. Called Allenbury gardens just behind fairview mall..
Your comments follow me everywhere
@@NostalgiaMan fair enough
@@happymcjingles1.03 let me join
You , me n Justin Y
Everyone who watched Jim Carrey version😂
Imposter!
Me too just saw Jim Carey making fun of this on fb
Facts 😂
Same @@jessicalbcky06
Just saw it!!!
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
1. It's a legitimate dialect
2. Many of us who don't speak that dialect are aware of it from the media
So yeah, many people can understand him
@@ani_n01 lol yeah I can. I got the chorus just be listening and being aware of Jamaican patios. Then just get on Google, once you've read the lyrics once whilst listening it's easy. It's basically a story of someone informing the police that snow stabbed someone. So he is threatening to hurt/kill the informer. Lick his bumbum down.
@@ani_n01 It's a legit dialect, sure, but he is spitting those words out fast.
@@ani_n01 from where?
@TheAllSeeing8Ball it's in patios, from Jamaica
I don't care what anyone says, I love this song!
We care you
This white boy is spitting bars.
This song was actually respected in the UK when it first came out. People in UK never liked a grass/informer
“What’s the password?”
“It’s on the back of the router.”
Back of the router:
Hey you... don't laugh, not just anyone can speak english like Motherlanguich. Try to learn French or German in Europe, they are at home and show you who's the loser.
@@timniesz7798 Ummm... yeah I never called anyone a loser. You’re looking for problems where there are none, buddy.
@@timniesz7798 dude.. is a joke
@@timniesz7798 r/wooooooooooooooooooooooosh
He (moral police) doesn't know what's a router. He thinks a piece of roto router or something.
BOMBO-CLAAT 🇯🇲🇯🇲
NOSTALGIA 🔥🔥🔥 💯💯💯
Snow is a legend.. lots of good songs, beautifull voice and a amazing flow..
He is 1 of a kind
Snow never informed, true story. If you know, you know. Straight G.
yep . he a G
Safe 👍👍
He did prison for sure.
@@Fokas-n8t he is a better slice than vanilla ice ice baby
@@Fokas-n8t he made the song in prison
Masterpiece, so much nostalgia, 90s was truly a golden era
It certainly delivers the nostalgia punch. "Masterpiece" is a stretch, though. Snow is no Scatman John.
Best era
We had THE BEST damn music!!! 😎 These kids just don't know ...
Thanks God I grew up in the 90's. Wouldn't have it any other way.
After the 80s, yes.
When I was a kid, my two older cousins impressed the heck out of me that they could keep up with this song. Now I know they were just spouting gibberish that sounded similar.
I was living in a hostel in mid 90s and my friend had this album and we used to play it end to end at the highest volume. I miss those crazy times. 90s forever...
That was the most warn out cassette tape I ever owned! I had to wind it with a pencil so many times! 😂😂 12 inches of Snow
Fuck yeah....!
This was ahead of its time. 30 years later and it still knocks.
Early 90's was the best time to be growing up in my opinion. So glad I was part of that generation who are now 40 plus years old. Great times
@John Doe bro the 90's were better than the "Crack Era" and the Aids generation my guy be real
Statement of the year
1995 on sucked though
39 here but in the same ballpark
@@malikwatson8436 lol ikr?!
Bro killed it to be fair
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.
These are facts. Toronto also has the largest housing project on the planet.
I was in Jamaica a couple of years ago. They love him there.
One of my favorite artists. Even back then. You got always a strange look when you say you are a fan.
You dont just learn to speak jamaican out of nowhere, I think it's one of the most fascinating things to listen to, I used to listen to jamaicans talk in prison and get so lost in them talking lol
I think he was a casualty of Vanilla Ice by proxy. Ice was a fraud, Snow wasn't, but no was about to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Truth Is stranger than fiction. Eminem and Drake prolly softer than Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer when push comes to shove.
I don’t care what anyone says, this song still goes hard.
I've been listening to this so much lately gonna get an accent
This is one of my favourite songs. I forgot about it, then I found it in my recommended and have listened to it at least once a day for 2 weeks.
love the line bout his stabbing
Of course man I am with u❤💯💘
Ппиздц спустя годы еа!
A hit in 1993.
A nostalgic remember in 2020.
Only problem is that - now, if it was released, he would get shot down for "cultural appropriation"
The way he says informer sounds like the italian word "INFAME" which also means snitch, it makes it even funnier
This song was stuck in my head for 20 years until I finally found it here on RUclips and it almost feels like I have attained salvation
That is a very high respect to God😊😊😊
🤣🤣
This is the final boss for people who are learning English lol.
Que wea gordon hombre libre
HAHAHAAHAH
😂
Word!
This comment is genuinely hilarious. Nice one.
Gonna try to learn this during the quarantine. Try.
Aliki.bombom dey is onlynthing i hear
(From memory. MTV put the lyrics up back in '93 or so)
_Informer, you know say daddy me Snow me_
_I go blam._
_A licky boom-down._
_'Tective man he say say daddy me Snow stab._
_Someone down the lane._
_A licky boom-boom down._
Moving lyrics indeed. Up there with Simon & Garfunkel.
@@lewis72 "from memory" ...right😂 its not much work to type in snow informer lyrics. For u to memorise tht for over 20 yrs is very unlikely cause most of the sentences make no sense in real patwah (jamaican english dialect) he just adds some unnecesary "me's" , distorts the sentence structure and calls it jamaican.
@@FlashxSounds
😆
Are you now telling me what I do and don't know !
It's not as though I haven't heard that track in 20 years and it didn't just come back to me hearing it just then.
I don't even know if what I typed matches what the internet gives.
GOALS!!!!
If he would drop this song today it would be the greatest hit 2024
💯
Eminem eat your heart out
Spend a second researching this guy. His upbringing and background in music is legit. No one made him like a boy band. He actually worked pretty hard to achieve what he has.
Had 😔
Went to jail before he could ride the hype train I heard.
there are idiots in this world who think people need to get permission from them to make music or grow up in or grow to love a certain culture... the question whether he was legit was itself never legit to begin with.
Vanilla Ice killed the chance Snow had to completely cross over in here the States. Plus Darien was on probation on a Weapon’s charge in Toronto.
It’s a damn shame really. Snow had TONS of Street Cred while Vanilla Ice had NONE.
@@Tornado1994 well EUROPE embraced him, open arms, but then he disappeared.
All jokes aside,, this song is dope .
😁ahh dry sarcasm doesn't cause orgasmic spazams
No jokes about this song if you really know.
But he does look like the OG 90's Blue Power Ranger "Billy" in that blue jacket
Drake: "I'm Canada's best rapper"
Snow: "Hold my cocaine"
@Congolese Capitalist It was meant as a joke/half-sarcasm. I'm not familiar with too many Canadian rappers. I am not fond of Drake, however. Snow might be a one-hit-wonder, but Informer is absolutely fire.
@@charlesthorndike2702 U Memer Meme makeher!
@Congolese Capitalist LMAO troll u just wanna talk shit!
Lmao nice! Drake is legit one of the wettest, most pussy rappers ever. Fuck Drake.
I laughed way to hard at this😂
Kids, dont let this die out
When you studied a foreign language by a textbook for a whole year and finally met a native speaker.
Don't worry, its mutual
😂😂
😹😹
That's no reason to stop trying.
They don't teach Jamaican slang in most English textbooks.
I love how the music video's director clearly took the "licky bum bum down" line literally
E.t.
You would
Yeah, it's supposed to mean, "I'll kick your ass for ratting on me," lol, but Mr. Music Video took it in an entirely sexual direction.
Lick means to hit someone
I'll LICK U! BOOM!! BOOM down.
In 1994 he came to Rome to do a show. I was only 14 years old and I didn't know him and his work. At that time I was working in a CD store and I used to go there after classes. He walked in with two other guys and asked to see his own CD. When I handed it over, I realized it was his face on the cover. He laughed, bought the CD and gave it to me!
Good story
Amazing story😊
@@e.a.6875it😅😅mg road 4:05
That's a pretty awesome flex.
Bet you don't still have it
when I was 4, my parents bought me a record player & let me play a stack of 78s that they had. this was one of them. I'm 62 now & this is one of my top 10 favorite songs of all time.
This song spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 back in 1992
And we couldn't google the lyrics back then.
This guy broke music barriers like no other.
lol wut
For real, was in total shock to see the singer. 🤣🤣🤣
@@bonzar991he no Eminem wanna be wigger
Sorry Drake but this guy is still the best rapper from Toronto.
its nice to know that at least there's one rapper who is famous from canada
@@BetweenTheLines1455 Never heard Classified?
@@BetweenTheLines1455 What about Jim Carey?
@@BetweenTheLines1455merkules? Drake? Classified? I remembered a few more.. night Lovell, Tory lanez, Nav, partynextdoor
@@BetweenTheLines1455 daniel son is the best rapper from toronto hands down.
This so was crazy popular when I was in grade 6
Girl: Why don't you understand my signals?
The signals:
Also Get Busy by Sean Paul, for further explanations
😂😂😂😂
IM ROLLING LMAOOO
@@banyalaplace And Earthquake Love by Arnold Schwarzenegger to sum it up.
Ye girl
The 90s are the latest golden era of music ! August 2022
Dude actually grew up in a Jamaican community, they even encouraged him to persue his dream of being a reggae artist
That is very cool! I still like this song!
Have you heard Jim Carey Imposter
He said Connecticut tho..
@@JL-do2mv the key word is community. Lol they never said jamaica. But rather a jamaican community wherever he from. 😂😂
This guy a legend!
This song still slaps.
At the age of 43 finally this song makes 5% more sense than it did when I was 14.
Edit:
Thank you for all the likes and comments, I'm apperaciatevice that I'm not alone, we are in this together Gen X, much love.
5%? you are wise, girl
It's the "whip down my pants, look up my bottom" thing isn't it? I can finally relate to that too...
43???
🤣
@@ebanyishakalot sadly, yes
I wasn’t necessarily a fan of snow, but I’m from Toronto, born and raised…. And I have mad respect for him. This is how the 90’s were in Toronto. Everyone hung out together and for the most part got along. Those really were the best times!
Same, just south in Wisconsin.
I'm 38 years old I remember this when I was young this was one of my favorite songs
The same in CR🇨🇷
It was a natural sense at the 90s.
Same in UK...
Take me back to the 90s any fucking day when racism didn't exist because demokkkrats wasn't trying to devide everyone to devide and conquer for a fact .I would live the rest of my life happily in the 90s
Remembering school days, someone said he had this on loop on a cassette for an hour, he was the most popular kid in school
Hahahaha
Then what was on side b!? 😂
The most popular kid for an hour
@@IanNewYashaTheFinalAct The instrumental version
Must have been good times, right?
This is a classic. I grew up in Mumbai, India. We were in high school when this came out and was all the rage. I learnt the rap bit and was good at it. When I broke that out at parties, I got all the attention from the girls! :))
Hell yeah! 😌
That's an awesome comment. It really has brightened my day 😊
I love that music unites everyone! 😊
Music is amazing. I hear this song and it's 1993 all over again. 22 years old, recently arrived in Japan, nothing on the agenda other than making a few yen and going out at night. Pretty sure I met my wife with this thumping in the background. 30 years, 3 kids later and I can still feel it all like yesterday.
I got to Japan in 1991. Was there for 8 years the first time. All these years and a couple of kids later. Such a good time. The music around the clubs at the time is still some of the best.
@@misplacedhaole6726 licky boom boom down 😁😁😁😁
did you lick her bum bum down?
🙂👍🙌
I was 22 in 93 great times
This song will forever be dope af. Killer beat, killer rhymes, and this man is such a unique talent. I always loved this song since it came out in the 90's.
Killer singer from what i've heard
He just stole reggae but ok
@@mcgavinclapping9490 Since when is reggae something you can "steal"? If we're talking about the song, snow didn't steal it from anybody, it's an original song.
@@mcgavinclapping9490music and art aren’t divided by race you troglodyte
Yes ma'am! If I ever get married, this gotta be on a playlist somewhere 😂
He's speaking the language of the Gods.
Lol
@Mick3y Abb9y You're right. My greatest wish is for there to be Gods who speak Patois.
When you white af but even the locals say you know your creole
Explains why there's so many contradictions in those damn holy books. The guys writing it down just didn't quite get what the boss said.
ghetto language
Lmmfao!!! Born in the 80s raised in the 90s. I got popped for saying "licky boom boom down"😂🤣
If I had a time machine I would go back to 90s and stay there forever.
Same
I am ready!!!
Take me with you
Me too golden era
Dam right bro
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
Thank you
Mil mil mil gracias por la traduccion. Al fin se que es lo que dice!!! ❤❤
Dude, you could write literally anything here, and we'd still believe you.
Snow was innocent
A miscarriage of justice
If you know his backround , snow really was about that life believe it or not.
Brah I was shook lol , love Snow even more now - Just to think I though Jim Cartrey spoof was the truth LOLLLLL
@@CarlySmith001 It's obviously a typo get a life
@@Koschei_ The funny thing is in a way he kinda STILL about that life because he took the path that most gangsters old enough to retire do- Philanthropy. Man lives in Jamaca and helps build (in terms of money and physical labor) houses with modern infrastructrure, especially in regions that often get hit by hurricanes, now. He's basically beloved in the community because they already fucked with him heavy and now he's paying it forward.
Damn apparently this song is about 2 murder attempts he did time for, and refused to snitch on his mates.
He’s a middle class kid from Toronto
Shame on me I've heard only Daddy Yankee's version and never knew that it was just a remake. This Irish singer is a great one! 😎
I dedicated my whole summer to learning every word of this song. Still only halfway through.
Lmao!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Goodluck next summer
It’s whiteboysummer
Keep going, don't lose faith!
so you can now reside in Jamaica legally, but work still needs to be done for citizenship. Good luck
for those that think this is fast English.. He's speaking Jamaican patois.. he grew up in public housing when Jamaicans were coming in. he gained quite a reputation to say the least
Never knew that wow
It makes sense cause Patois is partly Irish.
In Canada!
People just rolled with that “fast English” joke and only know him for this song and nothing else
@@LimeyLassen the word patois works well for some "dialects" in France. It's kind of an universal definition for the language spoken in each region. For example in the North thei have the CH'TIS, in the East something else, the Bretons etc.
Me: Yo dude, what's your Wi-Fi password?
My friend: It's on the back of the router
The back of the router:
hahahaha
Haha..So on point!
@Fils de Jean Noir He doesn't understand the lyrics, so hears a WiFi password instead...I think.
I think he meant: on the back of the router...like that's the password??? Idk...that's how I took it anyway😂🤷♀️
paswword? i dont know ;)
People hate all they want the fact that Bro is accepted by the Jamaicans speak volumes. He actually put that work in and did that dirt, big Up to Brethren.
He ain’t my brethren. He’s an imposter
My husband and I danced to this in Malta on honeymoon in 1993. Brilliant holiday. Still married beautiful daughter and celebrating our 30th anniversary next yr
This jam is still fire 🔥 after a few decades, takes me right back to the early 90's!
Jam, de Jamelgo.
Can't believe this album is 30 years old. Best of the early 90's.
Can’t believe I’m over 30 years old
Captions just say "Fuq it.." to songs like this...still a timeless banger.
Can't wait for the English version
This is in English
r/wooooooosh
@@Cucumberturnip 😂👌🏼
The wat?
😂😂😂
30 years later, this is a timeless classic from the early 90's 🙌🇧🇷
Fuvk my comment was deleted cause i skipped the ad was sth neurotic bout them old times for me theyll be always 10 years ago afterwards everything went shit crisis and panic and crippling the basic rights no one nowadays it seems is open minded and can take a joke dang these generations after 2000 are complete under control and have an egoist object and worldly outlook only focused on papers called cash. Backthen we hung out with everybody groups of people ages from 12 to 25 all sharing booze. It was mostly pressureless living and really connect with all people today people meet and text while sitting infront of each that lil handy computer that helps them to hide in every situation thats mildly uncomfortable.
I hope 2090 will be a reloaded version of the 90's careless party times
É nós, BR curtindo o rap do Snow, anos 90 raiz!
@@felnandomoc Irish dancehall regga rap
i reerad this and think WHAT 30 YEARS but yeah time gos........
honestly I think the jim carrey parody imposter is better
Quarantine has lasted enough for me to practice and learn this song, word by word...
Life goals
Impossible
You madman...
Even google subtitles can’t keep up with that guy!
Thanks to snow, as a child I thought that Canadians had Jamaican accents.
as a canadian, i can confirm that we dont have canadian accents. nope. just jamaican accents.
@@BetweenTheLines1455 wagwan, eh?
@@conplayz100 yeah bud
Underrated comment 😂
Cap
His words are like my teacher teaching me statistics and my understanding to his formulas......
I just started stats haha
Accurate
Started stats yday- awesome comment :)
your INformulas
🤣🤣🤣
I thought Sean Pauls english is complicated, but Snows english is on another level.
he sounds like he dipped his tongue in cocaine
English???? O_O
Sounds like New Yorkian slang but without the words being seperated
Jamaican dialect is terrible and horrible...
"English"...heh
Still 💯🔥🎶🙌🙌 in 2024. ❤
I'm absolutly in love of how we mixxed up reggae and rap, banger
when snow said "disjfhsdiufhsfhsdfudsfsdf" i felt that
Lmao
Kkkk puta merda, se nem os gringos entendem, imagina eu, mero estrangeiro
@@felipefernandez8541 nao hablar sopa do macaco 🙊
"youknowsaydaddymesnowmeigoblame, ilikeyourboomboomgirl"
Hjeshed good one ☝️ that shit legit made me laugh thanks dude
What a tune. Right back to my childhood...ouch!!
80´s 90´s generation not children
Same feelings
Amazing!!
he's absolutely legit
When you realize Snow has more street cred than most of 2020's rappers: 🤯
yea Ice T would wnat to talk to you mister
All gangster in jamaica love this guy,,,,,worst they don't like informer
@@cromandum217ok but Ice-T is not a 2020's rapper, he's an 80's rapper.
just bc you have a good song doesnt give you street cred retard
Bro he was about that life... Like seriously. Surprising, as he looks middle class. Guy had a crazy upbringing
There’s a handful of songs that are seriously the 90’s and this is one of them. Can’t understand a word but still a classic hit
I remember this song rocking our summer sometimes in the early 90s...we were in high school...
Jamaican patois & added syllables.
Funny thing is I know all the words and I'm not Jamaican or anything I'm from California. Back in the 90s they used to have a version of this video that ran captions at the bottom. I studied that version until I could understand everything he's saying lol
...."pull down me pants look up me bottom"...is 1 line I can just about make out 🤣
@@paulgarner3507 😂😂😂
12 inches of Snow. One of the best album 💿 titles ever.
One Hit Wonder Bread. At least a contender.
12 inches of snow…..OH SHI-
Vanilla Thunder brought me here and even though I don't understand a word, I licky boom-boom down!
My dad just showed me this song it’s so weird how a song can be stuck in your head without understanding a single word😂 it’s great
Exact same my dads got a good taste in music
When we were teens we would sing "l licky boom boom down" lol 😆 🤣 😄. We loved the tune, he was ruling the charts in Ireland in the 90's...
I can understand because my dad is from the Caribbean Jamaica, I've been there four times and I can speak patois which is Jamaican language, its like broken English and my mum is British and can speak it too I was born here in the UK!!
Oo ok i'm very happy for You
@@irishcountrygirl78 I guess been from the Caribbean I always heard: "Informer, You know say that a me a Snow, ah go Blame, I lick ya boom boom down." Basically somebody snitched and he's gonna get them. Lyrics I read online are wild! 😆 🤣 I'm not so sure though
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.
He looks like that one friend that always download some games, had all the cracks and fixes for your computer and basically was a older nerd that used to talk more with your older brother and then you hearing he is in jail for attempting murder and rolling with thugs xD
Yeah, and he got respect with the mandem in Jamaica too
Jamaicans never forget 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Nice
fun fact: he was born and raised in North York, where I currently live
This would fit perfectly in GTA San Andreas on Playback FM.
It would suite Liberty city better
@@rockyace1415 except it wouldn’t because the song dropped in 93 ya goofy ass
@Sentinel …so my point stands that a song in 92 wouldn’t fit in a game set in the mid 90s? Thanks for playing
@Sentinel still means nothing considering the exact template set out. Game set before the song was released. What are you even arguing?
@@Drratburn They need a GTA: GTA (Greater Toronto Area).
Like it or not, this song is dope.