Great Reaction Y'all! Yes! Snow is a White, Irish, Canadian guy raised in the projects with a high ratio of Jamaican immigrants in his neighborhood. Darrin Kenneth O'Brien -Born 1969 -Stage name is Snow -"Informer" (1992) spent 7 weeks at #1 -Parents divorced, raised by his Mom in public housing project where, he says, he was fascinated with the gangster lifestyle, fell in with a tough Irish-Canadian group and became involved in a cycle of fighting, drinking and stealing. -He never learned to read properly and dropped out of school while in the 9th grade. -He had a strong interest in rock but in '83 a lot of there was an Jamaican immigrants moved to his neighborhood so his interest turned to reggae music and he became good at speaking the Jamaican. -Dialect is Jamaican Patois: an English-based creole language with West African influences, spoken primarily in Jamaica. -Snow was in prison several times for mostly physical violence. -In 1988's there was a stabbing incident at a pub. Other people in the group pointed the finger at him, and he was charged with two counts of attempted murder. Rather than tell authorities who the perpetrator was, Snow served eight months in prison before a jury acquitted him. -While he was in jail, he went to school and wrote music. -An Informer is a SNITCH! His lyrics throw insults those who he claimed “snitched on” him. The hook of the track is based on Snow physically threatening the “informer” who got him locked up. -"Informer" exploded on the Billboard charts while he was incarcerated. By the time he was released from prison, Snow had become an international household name. *Some of the info is from Wikipedia
@@gamexsimmonds3581 Since Rico & Crys have never really listened to Reggae, I was going to recommend reacting to the legend Bob Marley: "Redemption Song" "Could You Be Loved" "No Woman No Cry"
@@jennhurl I think those re great songs, because there's aren't familiar with Reggae I would have reccomended they start with more modern sounding hiphop influenced Reggae and then work their way backward, that might be easier and grab their attention more at the beginning. But either way I hope they continue to explore new sounds, new artists, and new regions
Snow is a Canadian growing up in a Jamaican community in Toronto his style is called SKA which is a fusion of Reggae & Hip-Hop rap but done in Jamaican Creole language which is a fusion of english or french with local Jamaican dialect
He has very good track with Nadine Sutherland too, there is a lot of good Raggae from back in the day. You can listen to Beenie Man, Buccaneer, Merciless, Spragga Benz, Lady Shaw, Damien Marley, among others that you will find. Great Reactions guys, bless.
"lick your bum bum down" is a Caribbean term for I'm going to knock you off the planet ...or get rid of you .....to knock somebody down. He doesn't look like it but he was the real deal Gangsta in the day. He recorded this, but was actually in the can on an assault charge when it blew up and started getting airplay! Snow was charged and imprisoned for attempted murder but was later released. He grew up in a mostly Jamaican neighborhood. He's not putting on an act, this is what he listened to and was around all the time!
This dude was hard as hell. Shop lifted in New York for MC Shan to help feed his family back in the day when he was wanted in Toronto for double murder charges.
I don't think it was hilarious since it was an insult to Snow, implying that he was an imposter, which he wasn't. He may be white but he grew up in a neighbourhood full of Jamaican immigrants who he hung around with and learned patois from them and listened to Jamaican music. He was into that, that was a big influence to him. Just like Eminem and how he was called an imposter at first because he was a white rapper, not much different...
Informer is the only song by Snow that really took off, however he has other songs that in my opinion are better. You could check out these songs from his debut album: - runway - Lady with the red dress - girl I've been hurt - lonely monday morning
Hey Guys!!! When this came out, "Transformers" were getting Popular. About 2 years later, I was in a Comedy Troup doing Skits, Improv and Song Parodies. I wrote a Parody with the line> "Transformer.... I know your gonna Turn into a Train.... a Little Choo-Choo now...."!! The Crowds Loved it!!!
When you check the lyrics, he's talking to the dude who snitched him out, and when he gets of east side detention, he's coming straight for the informer. Click..boomboom..DOWN! That's some straight Toronto gangster sh..
I grew up near the same area. I don't regularly, but when I'm angry this accent comes out of this Irish/native girl too. It was Island Carib neighborhood. hahaha
I hung out with his babymama in Jamaica for a bit. This is a good song and always will be, for a lot of reasons. It sticks in your mind for days after hearing it.
I grew up around Jamaicans. So did he, apparently! I know EVERY WORD to this song. Haha! But I also know what he's saying, and its the HARDEST shit! 😎💯 When that dude proclaims in the 3rd verse that he's the "Article Don"!!! THATS some SERIOUS shit! People have been murdered for saying THAT shit!
I am Croatian. English is my second language, and before I could probably even speak Croatian properly, I was a small kid, I knew how to sing/rap this song 😂 I couldn't do it now. My older cousin was very amused by this and was making me rap this in front of her friends 😂
I went to snows concert at a local club. Ended up in back room with Snow and Ton Loc. Was way to drunk and tried to rap battle them. 1 hr later I ended up in a bush 🤣🤣 I guess I sucked
He comes from the same part of Toronto Canada as me. Jim Carrey did the parody Imposter . Ah early 2000s McDonalds my old friend, Parents trying to bring food inside the playground area, people pushing in line, people arguing with you about everything, shitty pay, good times. Hope you're both having a solid weekend so far.
Rico & Crys: Since you have never really listened to Reggae, maybe react to a iconic song by the legend Bob Marley? "Redemption Song" "Could You Be Loved" "No Woman No Cry" There's so many bands & artists that fuse the genre in their songs. For example: Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, The Clash, The Police, UB 40, Ini Kamose, The Pretenders, RUSH, & Led Zeppelin. Reggae is such an influential genre and worth a listen. It's so laid back & chill! You might like it! 🎵❤🤘
Yes, I Would Have To Agree With My Guy, I Thought 💭 The Same Thing … Just Listening To It Though, I Would Assume He Was Jamaican For Sure So Yea !!! But, He Did Grow Up With Jamaican Friends, And He Was Always Around That Jamaican Presence… Plus D.J Shan & Snow ❄️ Was Boys…
Jamaican people were really happy for him blowing up, outsiders gave him a tough time though, onely monday mornin' is good too, another great reggae jam is Welcome to Jamrock
Damn, early years of grammar school and most of us trying to figure out what the hell he was rapping!! Lol. It was so good hearing this in the radio in 1992-93. Now when I hear it, this shyt was ahead of its time!
was on the same floor as him in the east detention center in Toronto way back .!!Seen him at the Kool house ,he was opening for Sean Paul when he was big .Amazing concert.Torontos different we dont have the racial stuff like you guys do in the states,I grew up in mostly Jamacian areas my whole life done aot of time in the jungle at the west detention center in T,O and 1 block Collinsbay Pen and never ever had any racial problems .20 years in and out .Thats what makes Toronto the best city in the wold ,the music scene was great back then ,used to go to jamacian dancehall concerts or basement parties almost everyweekend.Times were good back then when i wasnt in jai. actualy much music (canadian MTV Rap City ) even did a show when i was in Collinsbay Pen in 1994 i think very cool< Sorry started babbling.This song brought me back to those times in my head.Thanks for the flash back .Love your channel!!!
This time 29 years ago I didn't know what I was in for. This is one of the most overplayed songs in MTV history. Every single time I turned to MTV this video was playing and it drove me crazy...for months. It was catchy the first 1000 times, though.
Snow is legitimately a gangster too. Dude was in prison when this song came out. Was in for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and 2 attempted murders..wasnt involved in the attempt murders but still. His whole family has mob ties as well.
Mad respect for Snow!!! I love this song, a lot, it’s a whole vibe, but he never got the recognition, in my opinion, he should have with his other stuff 🖤
When he finds the informer , it is going to be 'Lickey,Boom Boom,Down!' for that guy. ( rack his 9, and Boom! Boom!...Down!), jail house story and the charges are true, he was exonerated but talked about it all ( over shared ) on the Arsenio Hall show, where in the INS banned him from ever entering the US. The song also has two entries in the Guinness Book of World Records
Snow is a Canadian Reggae/Hiphop artist. Of course this song is about snitches, folks working with the police. Snow actually went to jail around the time this song came out for assault. We was gone for 8 months and while he was in jail this song started to get played on Much Music which was basically the Canadian version of MTV and it was played on the radio and when he was released the song was a hit. The sing is actually about an incident that happened a few years earlier. Snow had been charged with attempted murder and was detained in Toronto for a year and then the charges were changed to aggravated assault and eventually dropped. So dude was definitely a gangster. He grew up in a Jamaican housing project in Toronto and that's where he fell in love with Reggae and learned the slang. Thats why he said " People damn say I come from Jamaica" and "Pure Brown people mon, that's all the mon know" the guy who rapped at the end was MC Shan. He produced the song and helped snows early Career. MC Shan was actually a huge deal in the mid 1980s, he was a rap pf the rap group the Juice Crew with Marley Marl. But after a beef with KRS One and Boogiedown productions and after saying that hiphop started in Queensbridge when it actually started in the Bronx he fell off and wasn't heard from again until Snow came out. In 2019 Pureto Rican artist Daddy Yankee made a remix to Informer called Con Calma and actually got Snow to do a verse on the song all these years later. It's kinda dope and yall would like it. I hope yall react to the candian rapper Classified too
Classified is one of the most underrated rappers in history. Dude has legend respect in Canada but Americans barely have heard of him even having a song on Madden. Love more of his older stuff then the newer stuff but the new stuff is still dope.
Such a great (sry, have 2 say it) one hit wonder - absolutely ear worm catchy song - sung by a Canadian Jamaican ! And, in the same vein as this era,, these are also ABSOLUTE must hearz from the 90s / early 00s - commenters please help get these on the channel ! T Y US 3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia) Len - Steal My Sunshine Chumbawumba - Tub Thumping Bare Naked Ladies - One Week or All Star A3 - Woke Up This Morning Looking forward to seeing more of your content. Make it a great day ! ✌️
@@bryanjames6669 -it always pays to double check your work- I know my focus was on US 3 track ... The Smash Lady Naked Mouth Bear came to fruition... Along with probably a Shrek soundtrack and kingpin or some other movie had one of these songs I don't know,,, I even looked on Google for the spelling of chumbawumba track, and I think auto correctED it ? But, yeah, all those songs,,, And, the 90's had LOTS of music .... Smashing Pumpkins, Black Crowes, NIN, All of Seattle, Alanis, Nelly & Nelly Furtado, Pantera, etc .... 🤘 🤪🙄
"take the man to city, then imma stomach somewhere down the lane a licky boom boom down." it's about putting snitches (informers) on notice. wild track.
I had a GF who went to high school with Darrin O'Brien. He grew up in Allenbury Gardens in the North York area of Toronto. Years later i had an employed who was related to him. Snow actually has a lot more hit songs but i think his other songs in the late 90s were only somewhat big in Canada and don't think they were heard in the U.S. checkout The Plum Song by Snow if you get a chance.
Im happy you liked Snow and hope you get into more Reggae. Reggae and Hip Hop are like cousins. If you want smooth reggae/dancehall styles you can get into Tenor Saw "Ring di Alarm" you can also react to Mr.Vegas "Nike Air" Tanya Stephens "Its a Pity" Barrington Levy "Broader than Broadway."
Toronto patois is it's own thing. Hang with Caribbean-Canadian kids from Regents Park, St. James Town, Jane -Finch for a week and you'll be hearing and speaking it. But then go two blocks away and it's all different. The best way to understand is the Star Trek TNG episode "Dharmok" where the crew encounters people who speak only in idioms. The Tamarians. But in the Toronto 'hood the point was to not be clearly understood by outsiders ...
I accidentally ran across your channel and you were doing an Eminem review so I had to subscribe. I like you guys because you are very personable. I have been listening to Em from the beginning of his career and I only live about 55 minutes or so directly south of him! What's funny about this Snow guy is he sounds Jamaican but is actually from Canada! LOL ✌🙏
Daddy Yankee and Snow did a new Reggaeton version recently called “Con Calma” You NEED to react to the Jim Carey “In Living Color” parody version though. It’s classic comedy from the old Waynes skit show In Living Color
Early raggaton by a white dude. Very 90s. Heard that a millions times. Very Caribbean. You wanna check "the hotstepper" by ini kamoze which came out about the same time. Some carrabean flavor for ya which was really cool.
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Great Reaction Y'all!
Yes! Snow is a White, Irish, Canadian guy raised in the projects with a high ratio of Jamaican immigrants in his neighborhood.
Darrin Kenneth O'Brien
-Born 1969
-Stage name is Snow
-"Informer" (1992) spent 7 weeks at #1
-Parents divorced, raised by his Mom in public housing project where, he says, he was fascinated with the gangster lifestyle, fell in with a tough Irish-Canadian group and became involved in a cycle of fighting, drinking and stealing.
-He never learned to read properly and dropped out of school while in the 9th grade.
-He had a strong interest in rock but in '83 a lot of there was an Jamaican immigrants moved to his neighborhood so his interest turned to reggae music and he became good at speaking the Jamaican.
-Dialect is Jamaican Patois: an English-based creole language with West African influences, spoken primarily in Jamaica.
-Snow was in prison several times for mostly physical violence.
-In 1988's there was a stabbing incident at a pub. Other people in the group pointed the finger at him, and he was charged with two counts of attempted murder. Rather than tell authorities who the perpetrator was, Snow served eight months in prison before a jury acquitted him.
-While he was in jail, he went to school and wrote music.
-An Informer is a SNITCH! His lyrics throw insults those who he claimed “snitched on” him. The hook of the track is based on Snow physically threatening the “informer” who got him locked up.
-"Informer" exploded on the Billboard charts while he was incarcerated. By the time he was released from prison, Snow had become an international household name.
*Some of the info is from Wikipedia
Also had co-sign from MC Shan. Which helped him
@@johns3040 Facts💯 THANK YOU for adding that! 🎵❤🤘
If anyone here is into Reggae I would suggest Snow Second album Murder Love. It's hot stuff. He recorded it in Jamaica
@@gamexsimmonds3581 Since Rico & Crys have never really listened to Reggae, I was going to recommend reacting to the legend Bob Marley:
"Redemption Song"
"Could You Be Loved"
"No Woman No Cry"
@@jennhurl I think those re great songs, because there's aren't familiar with Reggae I would have reccomended they start with more modern sounding hiphop influenced Reggae and then work their way backward, that might be easier and grab their attention more at the beginning. But either way I hope they continue to explore new sounds, new artists, and new regions
This song was EEEEEVERYWHERE in the early to mid 90's.
Reggae in the 90s was off the charts. The music the dance styles was incredible. Shabba Ranks, Mad Lion, El General, Patra, Shaggy.
UB40!
This is not reaggae. Its commercial rap with dancehall vibes.
@@goranh624 so why was it the best reggae song in Jamaica ever? 😅 and he is white Canadian 😅
@@noahcasa7917 it is not reggae music..go and listen to bob marley then come back here to apologize ;)
@@goranh624 I think that’s up to Jamaicans to decide. Bubbling reggae same, best song in charts ever in Jamaica, land of reggae
Snow is legit. He's the living embodiment of the quote, "Don't judge the book by its cover". He's an OG.
On MTV they had to put the lyrics on the screen so everyone could understand him
Snow is a Canadian growing up in a Jamaican community in Toronto his style is called SKA which is a fusion of Reggae & Hip-Hop rap but done in Jamaican Creole language which is a fusion of english or french with local Jamaican dialect
He has very good track with Nadine Sutherland too, there is a lot of good Raggae from back in the day. You can listen to Beenie Man, Buccaneer, Merciless, Spragga Benz, Lady Shaw, Damien Marley, among others that you will find. Great Reactions guys, bless.
"lick your bum bum down" is a Caribbean term for I'm going to knock you off the planet ...or get rid of you .....to knock somebody down. He doesn't look like it but he was the real deal Gangsta in the day. He recorded this, but was actually in the can on an assault charge when it blew up and started getting airplay! Snow was charged and imprisoned for attempted murder but was later released.
He grew up in a mostly Jamaican neighborhood. He's not putting on an act, this is what he listened to and was around all the time!
Bro come on….”licky boom boom down” lol
Kick your ass , in Patois.
He is a Canadian guy. This song was #1 for 7 weeks because it was so unique to see a white guy doing Jamaican rap/reggae
This dude was hard as hell. Shop lifted in New York for MC Shan to help feed his family back in the day when he was wanted in Toronto for double murder charges.
Jim Carey did a hillarious spoof of Snow on In Living Color.
I used to have this album on CD back in the day. Lady in a red dress is a fire track
I don't think it was hilarious since it was an insult to Snow, implying that he was an imposter, which he wasn't. He may be white but he grew up in a neighbourhood full of Jamaican immigrants who he hung around with and learned patois from them and listened to Jamaican music. He was into that, that was a big influence to him. Just like Eminem and how he was called an imposter at first because he was a white rapper, not much different...
Informer is the only song by Snow that really took off, however he has other songs that in my opinion are better. You could check out these songs from his debut album:
- runway
- Lady with the red dress
- girl I've been hurt
- lonely monday morning
Thank you. I definitely will.
"Anything For You" is his best tune IMO.....collab with some of the biggest names in reggae/dancehall. Tune still tears up the dance!
@@JahSoldierOmegaSound Thanks for letting me know. I'll have a listen later. Think I'll have to cop his album at one point 🤣
Facts bro haha I just posted a message about Lady with the red dress
Nah.. Anything for you was a hit too
It's dancehall
But I grew up in the 80s. So reggae to me is Bob, Steel Pulse, Peter Tosh, Alpha Bloody etc.
If you want to hear another great song you need to check out UB40 Red Red Wine! It’s fire! 🔥
Yes , red red wine is a favorite from childhood great song
The live version
Fact on FACTS
Hey Guys!!! When this came out, "Transformers" were getting Popular. About 2 years later, I was in a Comedy Troup doing Skits, Improv and Song Parodies. I wrote a Parody with the line> "Transformer.... I know your gonna Turn into a Train.... a Little Choo-Choo now...."!! The Crowds Loved it!!!
When you check the lyrics, he's talking to the dude who snitched him out, and when he gets of east side detention, he's coming straight for the informer. Click..boomboom..DOWN! That's some straight Toronto gangster sh..
I grew up near the same area. I don't regularly, but when I'm angry this accent comes out of this Irish/native girl too. It was Island Carib neighborhood. hahaha
Snow was real..wrote this song in jail while fighting 2 counts of attempted murder..for stabbing 2 people
Hey he did.
🤣
@@gaspuno ikr hard to believe that white boy was way more legit than 90% of black rappers
@@gaspuno laughing huh little boy it's true though
@@nocomment6232 ok, it’s tRuE, sorry. Don’t be mad, just take it easy.
I hung out with his babymama in Jamaica for a bit. This is a good song and always will be, for a lot of reasons. It sticks in your mind for days after hearing it.
I grew up around Jamaicans.
So did he, apparently!
I know EVERY WORD to this song. Haha! But I also know what he's saying, and its the HARDEST shit! 😎💯
When that dude proclaims in the 3rd verse that he's the "Article Don"!!! THATS some SERIOUS shit!
People have been murdered for saying THAT shit!
Would it mean a gangsta that ends up in news articles?
I am Croatian. English is my second language, and before I could probably even speak Croatian properly, I was a small kid, I knew how to sing/rap this song 😂
I couldn't do it now.
My older cousin was very amused by this and was making me rap this in front of her friends 😂
Its not reggae, its raggamuffin.
It was a worldhit. After him cames shaggy.
Hip hop with a reggae beat
SNOW is incredible...🔥🔥🔥 Lots of Bangers... Lady in the Dress, Lonely Monday Morning, Runaway, Girl I Been Hurt...👍👊😎
“Everybody wants to be like youuuuu” another great snow song.
I went to snows concert at a local club. Ended up in back room with Snow and Ton Loc. Was way to drunk and tried to rap battle them. 1 hr later I ended up in a bush 🤣🤣 I guess I sucked
He had another hit called - everbody wants to be like you
Check out the Jim Carey version off of in living color it’s funny
I could never understand the words of the song but the beat and everything else was fire.
This has been my ringtone since 2016. I grew up knowing this song. I have bizarre taste in music. I range from classical to I.C.P.
I remember this lol & at that time it was definitely different. A white guy speaking, singing patois/ creole liked it then!! Nastalgia great reaction!
Snow was badass back in the day. In 2014 he did a tune called shame with Mykal Rose that's another great tune.
Man brings back my childhood, I lived through these times and I loved it and still love it. 👌🤌✌
He comes from the same part of Toronto Canada as me. Jim Carrey did the parody Imposter . Ah early 2000s McDonalds my old friend, Parents trying to bring food inside the playground area, people pushing in line, people arguing with you about everything, shitty pay, good times. Hope you're both having a solid weekend so far.
Snow was first cd I owned in the 90s lol. And boys to men was also popular back then. All 4 one also.
Rico & Crys: Since you have never really listened to Reggae, maybe react to a iconic song by the legend Bob Marley?
"Redemption Song"
"Could You Be Loved"
"No Woman No Cry"
There's so many bands & artists that fuse the genre in their songs. For example: Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, The Clash, The Police, UB 40, Ini Kamose, The Pretenders, RUSH, & Led Zeppelin.
Reggae is such an influential genre and worth a listen. It's so laid back & chill! You might like it! 🎵❤🤘
Peter Tosh "Legalize It"
That was an awesome time, sitting in the backyard with my girlfriend and best friend and enjoying life! And listening to this song!
Best reggae song ever in Jamaica charts. And he is white Canadian 😅
Yall gotta get yall reggae vibes up rap comes from reggae low key 🔑
Some people knock these rappers , but they were the building blocks to rap being excepted by the masses! I always loved it !!
Yes, I Would Have To Agree With My Guy, I Thought 💭 The Same Thing … Just Listening To It Though, I Would Assume He Was Jamaican For Sure So Yea !!! But, He Did Grow Up With Jamaican Friends, And He Was Always Around That Jamaican Presence… Plus D.J Shan & Snow ❄️ Was Boys…
Jamaican people were really happy for him blowing up, outsiders gave him a tough time though, onely monday mornin' is good too, another great reggae jam is Welcome to Jamrock
Damn, early years of grammar school and most of us trying to figure out what the hell he was rapping!! Lol. It was so good hearing this in the radio in 1992-93. Now when I hear it, this shyt was ahead of its time!
was on the same floor as him in the east detention center in Toronto way back .!!Seen him at the Kool house ,he was opening for Sean Paul when he was big .Amazing concert.Torontos different we dont have the racial stuff like you guys do in the states,I grew up in mostly Jamacian areas my whole life done aot of time in the jungle at the west detention center in T,O and 1 block Collinsbay Pen and never ever had any racial problems .20 years in and out .Thats what makes Toronto the best city in the wold ,the music scene was great back then ,used to go to jamacian dancehall concerts or basement parties almost everyweekend.Times were good back then when i wasnt in jai. actualy much music (canadian MTV Rap City ) even did a show when i was in Collinsbay Pen in 1994 i think very cool< Sorry started babbling.This song brought me back to those times in my head.Thanks for the flash back .Love your channel!!!
90's music effect = puts a smile on your face as soon as you hear it!
Okay this solidified you guys as my favorite reaction channel. This song is actually 🔥
another multi genre band from 90s toronto is RAGGADETH-a blend of reggae/hiphop and metal that also features a female MC
Classic, even Daddy Yankee sampled this song not long ago and had Snow make a guest appearance
Yall from naptown thats wassup lil chitown 💯🫶🙅be cold as hell snow 4 real ❄️🌨🌧🌬
This time 29 years ago I didn't know what I was in for. This is one of the most overplayed songs in MTV history. Every single time I turned to MTV this video was playing and it drove me crazy...for months. It was catchy the first 1000 times, though.
Snow is legitimately a gangster too. Dude was in prison when this song came out. Was in for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and 2 attempted murders..wasnt involved in the attempt murders but still. His whole family has mob ties as well.
Mad respect for Snow!!! I love this song, a lot, it’s a whole vibe, but he never got the recognition, in my opinion, he should have with his other stuff 🖤
When this hit the pop stations it was a banger!
I was a senior in High School when rhis came out and Informer is another name for Narc!
Recklezz, you're gonna get comments about Jim Carrey on "In Living Color" doing a parody to this song. Its called "Imposter". Please react to it.
Funny but mean😬
F Jim carrey
Snow is the truth
Damian Marley - Welcome to Jamrock
It’s a great song
When he finds the informer , it is going to be 'Lickey,Boom Boom,Down!' for that guy. ( rack his 9, and Boom! Boom!...Down!), jail house story and the charges are true, he was exonerated but talked about it all ( over shared ) on the Arsenio Hall show, where in the INS banned him from ever entering the US. The song also has two entries in the Guinness Book of World Records
There is a world of reggae waiting for you.
Gyptian : Hold yoh
This song is basically a threat to a police informant that they are going to get dealt with. A threat to the person who informed on him to the police.
Snow is a Canadian Reggae/Hiphop artist. Of course this song is about snitches, folks working with the police. Snow actually went to jail around the time this song came out for assault. We was gone for 8 months and while he was in jail this song started to get played on Much Music which was basically the Canadian version of MTV and it was played on the radio and when he was released the song was a hit. The sing is actually about an incident that happened a few years earlier. Snow had been charged with attempted murder and was detained in Toronto for a year and then the charges were changed to aggravated assault and eventually dropped. So dude was definitely a gangster. He grew up in a Jamaican housing project in Toronto and that's where he fell in love with Reggae and learned the slang. Thats why he said " People damn say I come from Jamaica" and "Pure Brown people mon, that's all the mon know" the guy who rapped at the end was MC Shan. He produced the song and helped snows early Career. MC Shan was actually a huge deal in the mid 1980s, he was a rap pf the rap group the Juice Crew with Marley Marl. But after a beef with KRS One and Boogiedown productions and after saying that hiphop started in Queensbridge when it actually started in the Bronx he fell off and wasn't heard from again until Snow came out. In 2019 Pureto Rican artist Daddy Yankee made a remix to Informer called Con Calma and actually got Snow to do a verse on the song all these years later. It's kinda dope and yall would like it. I hope yall react to the candian rapper Classified too
CLASSIFIED!
@@keetahbrough I've been trying to get them to react to Classified for a while now. I dont think it's working though
Classified is one of the most underrated rappers in history. Dude has legend respect in Canada but Americans barely have heard of him even having a song on Madden. Love more of his older stuff then the newer stuff but the new stuff is still dope.
@@clarktownsend8991 He sure is, he is Rap Royalty here in NS
Daddy Yankee is a Reggaeton artist from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
DO THE "ANYTHING FOR YOU" REMIX BY SNOW AND AN ALL STAR DANCEHALL CAST...PURE CLASS. From Scarborough! BOROUGH TUFF.
Such a great (sry, have 2 say it) one hit wonder - absolutely ear worm catchy song - sung by a Canadian Jamaican !
And, in the same vein as this era,, these are also ABSOLUTE must hearz from the 90s / early 00s - commenters please help get these on the channel ! T Y
US 3 - Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
Len - Steal My Sunshine
Chumbawumba - Tub Thumping
Bare Naked Ladies - One Week or All Star
A3 - Woke Up This Morning
Looking forward to seeing more of your content. Make it a great day ! ✌️
I love Len "Steal My Sunshine"
Such a vibe!! 🔥
Do the Bare Naked Ladies have a song called All Star or are you referring to Smash Mouth?
@@bryanjames6669
-it always pays to double check your work- I know my focus was on US 3 track ... The Smash Lady Naked Mouth Bear came to fruition... Along with probably a Shrek soundtrack and kingpin or some other movie had one of these songs I don't know,,, I even looked on Google for the spelling of chumbawumba track, and I think auto correctED it ? But, yeah, all those songs,,,
And, the 90's had LOTS of music .... Smashing Pumpkins, Black Crowes, NIN, All of Seattle, Alanis, Nelly & Nelly Furtado, Pantera, etc .... 🤘
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Snow is not a 1 hit wonder.. at least here in Canada. “Red dress” is another one of his hits.. there is another I can’t remember
Yeah. This track was fire when it first came out. Everyone loved it. Kind of like the Despacito of it's time.
This song was a jam back in the day.. 90s heads know
The last time I saw a reaction to this snow popped up in the comments so keep ya out for him...
Glad you reacted to this some people give snow alotta crap but I always loved it ❤️✌️
"take the man to city, then imma stomach somewhere down the lane a licky boom boom down." it's about putting snitches (informers) on notice. wild track.
I had a GF who went to high school with Darrin O'Brien. He grew up in Allenbury Gardens in the North York area of Toronto. Years later i had an employed who was related to him. Snow actually has a lot more hit songs but i think his other songs in the late 90s were only somewhat big in Canada and don't think they were heard in the U.S. checkout The Plum Song by Snow if you get a chance.
Speaking of reggae, you have to listen to the best BOB MARLEY - NO WOMAN NO CRY !
Im happy you liked Snow and hope you get into more Reggae. Reggae and Hip Hop are like cousins.
If you want smooth reggae/dancehall styles you can get into Tenor Saw "Ring di Alarm" you can also react to Mr.Vegas "Nike Air" Tanya Stephens "Its a Pity" Barrington Levy "Broader than Broadway."
Toronto patois is it's own thing. Hang with Caribbean-Canadian kids from Regents Park, St. James Town, Jane -Finch for a week and you'll be hearing and speaking it. But then go two blocks away and it's all different.
The best way to understand is the Star Trek TNG episode "Dharmok" where the crew encounters people who speak only in idioms. The Tamarians.
But in the Toronto 'hood the point was to not be clearly understood by outsiders ...
Oh man this takes me back lol.
You guys should check out Digable Planets "The rebirth of slick", alternative/hiphop, jazz/hiphop
I don't think I've ever heard this before?!..... crazy!!
Ideal for dancing! Or something like this; who as can.
If you are going down the reggae hole you must Check out Shaba ranks especially tingaling or ninja man songs.
Also Beenie man-Sim simma
Need to watch Jim carry on in living color do a spoof on this song.
I accidentally ran across your channel and you were doing an Eminem review so I had to subscribe. I like you guys because you are very personable. I have been listening to Em from the beginning of his career and I only live about 55 minutes or so directly south of him! What's funny about this Snow guy is he sounds Jamaican but is actually from Canada! LOL ✌🙏
Reggae is life y'all
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 legendary
Runaway, Girl I've been hurt, & Lady with the red dress is Awesome too Worth a Listen
Great reaction tho 🤘
Daddy Yankee and Snow did a new Reggaeton version recently called “Con Calma” You NEED to react to the Jim Carey “In Living Color” parody version though. It’s classic comedy from the old Waynes skit show In Living Color
My favorite album as a kid! And im from Denmark. Just to let you know, how far this guy actually got back then.
12 inches of Snow is a great album
Snow,..girl I've been hurt.great song
Snow is a legend, check out his collaboration with Jamaican top killaz: "Anything for you"
My favorite song on that album was red dress.
I like your Boom boom 💥 down!!!
white Canadian with a fake Jamaican accent = HIT!!
U have to watch Jim carry spoof version of this. Called impostor
Blood hilarious
got' em!!!!!
Great reaction ! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ !
Early raggaton by a white dude. Very 90s. Heard that a millions times. Very Caribbean.
You wanna check "the hotstepper" by ini kamoze which came out about the same time. Some carrabean flavor for ya which was really cool.
Shit was fire first time I heard it
Hahaha . Love your missus lol. when you said the only snow you get is ..........
I actually bought this album on cassette back in the day when it was released.....awesome album
Canadian. He grew up in an area of Toronto that was predominantly Jamaican
Canadian Reggae at its best.
Sti a tune for life
We were in high school when this song came out and we all thought it was corney and a joke.
Snow is a top tier lyricist, race aside