By 'Snow' (with apologies to those of you who have never heard it)
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Finally, the lyrics to the song that robbed us of the year 1993. The first time you heard it you thought the guy was rapping about a farmer. But then you found out he was some sort of exotic white guy who raps (from Canada it turns out). He rapped incredibly fast and you never quite knew what the fuck he was saying. But you were drawn to him. Until the black guys started laughing at you and slipped you a copy of DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince's 'Summertime'.
Snow's 1993 album cover.
The album was called "12 inches of snow".
I'm not kidding.
In Snow's song, 'Informer', you might remember there was a girl who joined in the rap and sang at the end of it. Enjoy this, might ring a bell:
Me sittin' 'round cool with my dibbie dibbie girl
Police knock my door lick up my pal
Rough me up an' 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 'cuz I'm hangin' with the Snowman
What I'm gonna do I'm backed an' I'm trapped
Slap me in the face an' took all o' my gap
They have no clues an' they wanna get warmer
But Shan won't turn informer
INFOOOOOORMER !!!!!
No more will you live in such a void. Here are the full lyrics for the late teenagers of the early ninety who didn't have a clue.
Informer
By Snow
What's up man hey yo what's up
Yeah what's goin' on here
Sick an' tired of five-oh runnin' up on the block here
You know what I'm sayin'
Yo Snow they came around here lookin' for you the other day
Word word bust it
CHORUS:
Informer you no say daddy me Snow me I'll go blame
A licky boom boom down
Detective mon said daddy me Snow me stab someone down the lane
A licky Boom Boom Down.
CHORUS.
Police them come an' now they blow down me door
One him come crawl through through my window
So then they put me in the back the car at the station
From that point on me reach my destination
When the destination reached it was the east detention
Where them whipped down me pants looked up me bottom so
CHORUS.
Bigger they are they think they have more power
They're on the phone me say that on (every) hour
Me for want to use it once an' now me call me lover
Lover who I'll be callin is the one Tammy
An' me love her in me heart down to my belly
Yes me daddy me Snow me I feel cool an' deadly
As the one MC Shan an' the one daddy Snow
Together we-a love 'em as a Tor-Na-Do
CHORUS.
Listen for me you better listen for me now (x2)
When me rockin' the microphone me rock it steady
Yes sir daddy me Snow me are the article don
But in the in an' the out of a dance them they say where you come from
People them say you come from Jamaica
But me born an' raised in the ghetto that's the one I want you to know
Pure black people mon that's all I mon know
Yeah me shoes are tear up an' me toes used to show
Where me born in on the one Toronto so
CHORUS.
Come with a nice young lady.
Intelligent yes she's gentle an' irie
Everywhere me go me never left her at all
Yes its daddy Snow me are the roam dance mon
Roam between a dancin' in a in a nation-a
You never know say daddy me Snow me are the Boom Shakata
Me never lay-a down flat in that one cardboard box
Yes say me Daddy me Snow me I'll go reachin' at the top so
CHORUS.
Why would he (x2)
Me sittin' 'round cool with my dibbie dibbie girl
Police knock my door lick up my pal
Rough me up an' 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 'cuz I'm hangin' with the Snowman
What I'm gonna do I'm backed an' I'm trapped
Slap me in the face an' took all o' my gap
They have no clues an' they wanna get warmer
But Shan won't turn informer
CHORUS.
Aaah. Take me back to when it was all so simple.
Seth Rotherham
Editor
2oceansvibe.com
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