![]() ![]() Whilst Informer has MC Shan (who co-produced 12 Inches for Snow) offering some great rapping, Snow’s contributions are hard to decipher! I love the song and I will explain more… Snow became hooked on Reggae when Jamaicans moved into his Toronto neighbourhood – before then, Rock music was prevalent in his life. Informer is a song that splits people! VH1 ranked it as one of the best songs of the 1990s back in 2007, but many others have derided the song for its un unintelligible lyrics and inauthenticity. ![]() When I was at school, many of my friends and I could not understand the words! Informer spent seven consecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, and it reached number-two in the U.K. Snow is a rapper from Canada, and many people were surprised when listening to Informer that it was performed by a white Canadian – not a big demographic that fitted seamlessly into Reggae! One reason why people were shock is because Snow is delivered in a Jamaican patois. The hit song, Informer, was released after his release – and it is has become one of the most-successful Reggae songs of all-time. Snow’s album, 12 Inches of Snow, was released in January 1993, and it was produced not long before Snow was imprisoned for a year for assault. ![]() And song that has divided people for years. ![]()
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