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Best Kept Secret The making of the multiplatinum 1993 hit song Informer by Snow documentary
A detailed documentary on the making of the multi-platinum hit song Informer by Reggae artist Snow (Behind the scenes footage & interviews from Snow's lawyer, The Police, Snow's family & friends, Dj Marvin Prince, MC Shan)
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when the police officer said "he was always on the top of our charts" -
@MrParkerman6
Жыл бұрын
The detective man say Snow stabbed someone down the lane.
@ndong0davies575
9 ай бұрын
Yo, that is one of the funniest things I've heard someone say. Gotta the rawness of the 90s
@NijahovaWorld
7 ай бұрын
@@MrParkerman6ah licky boom boom dowwwn
The early 90s was a hell of a fun time and place to be. It was to be the last true decade of love and fun. Thank you for laying down the soundtrack to it, Mr Prince. You guys did something extraordinary. Anyone who was there will always know Informer.
@djdigitaldread
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jeremy......One love
@thoroughbred2741
2 жыл бұрын
Yea man. Crazy track
@newworldorganics3072
Жыл бұрын
It had all the good things we have now and none of the bad stuff. The internet was free and open the music was curated and even the heroin was safer
@Chris-cz2kx
5 ай бұрын
For real!!! What a great time for music...the last great time for music. Was never the same after the 90s...
KZread algorithm delivers yet another riveting documentary 🤣
Snow is a Legend of Canada to me
Police officer :Yeah he was on top of our charts. Canada's most wanted man.
My childhood friend used to dance to “Informer” all the time when we were kids, he passed away in a car accident out in LA in 2009, he was only 25 years old, great memories, 90’s was the best, I still be bumping this in 2021 #RIPJullian
@djdigitaldread
3 жыл бұрын
RIP Julian
@ottotheorange14
3 жыл бұрын
RIP, sorry for your loss brother
@travisj.1938
2 жыл бұрын
RIP Julian
@dannyhudson2479
2 жыл бұрын
R.I.P TO YOUR FAM... JUST LOST MY BROTHER. ...
@dannyhudson2479
2 жыл бұрын
Bro when my brother left this planet I was lost he was the leader he joined the royal navy when 15/ 16 and that was 1980 when he got demobbed about 10 yes ago I thought we could catch up for lost time I love m/cycles brought 1 my bro got 1 also and we planned to ride north south east n west then covid struck and put a block on our reunion he left me man last October age 57 I'm 56 so I'm fuckin worried what's next... mom's got dimensia her husband my stepfather passed few weeks aback ...as you know Mike aiken the world don't stop turning So bro be strong on this planet Cus when when where called that it we're done... So just try be strong talk to you soon man
People don’t say this often but it’s 2020 and WE WANT MORE SNOW!!!
@yasisoufi
3 жыл бұрын
What about there’s always a pusher?
@yenpasquin3272
3 жыл бұрын
A one in a lifetime artist.
@phanatixtalkshow1838
3 жыл бұрын
That's where it all started (kool herc)
@gamermasta525
2 жыл бұрын
Fuck yeH!!!
@MrEXtraRaw
2 жыл бұрын
*LOLOLOLOL*
It's cool to see this video I was born in 87 and you see nobody with phones all in they hands. Man this was a dope time
And here Drake got us all thinking that he put Toronto on the map.
@villiantwo
3 жыл бұрын
FR! i fkn hate drake! .. we have so much talent in toronto, and this guy tying to rep us. cant sing or rap in my opinion. but they play his shit ALL DAY on the radio
@kidbreaker1500
3 жыл бұрын
Who?
@cheeseballer_
3 жыл бұрын
Drakes a flop
@skrillahbeats001
2 жыл бұрын
@@cheeseballer_ u sound ignorant af drake big af
@cheeseballer_
2 жыл бұрын
@@skrillahbeats001 Drake is a goose, and no one with any sort of intelligence tries to prove a point while saying "af*
GREAT Documentary. With out DJ PRINCE there would have been NO SNOW! BIG UP MARVIN PRINCE.
@kellimasters9644
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah big up to Marvin and Snow and the rest of the crew back in the days in Ajax and Pickering. Came to Canada from Jamaica in 1988 met these guys and we became friends. Never forget were you came from thanks for the memories guys. A me man Marcus Respect 👊🏾. Reds ,Tyrone , Big Mikey , Dean , Ian, Dog Foot , Junior, Rev, and others give thanks!
What an amazing friendship between SNOW and PRINCE....I love seeing people to whom life was cruel, catch a break and use their uniqueness to reach the stars 🌠
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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Didn't realize it was the actual DJ who uploaded this. Really amazing documentary and important part of Canadian music history. Really cool to see the time on the road in those days. Snow lives on!
He was definitely in my cassette tape play list back in the 90's.. one of my favorites.. the white boy before Shady.
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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The guy actually has a great R&B singing voice. Sounds almost exactly like Lead singer of Colour Me Bad.
@789tundra
3 жыл бұрын
Great observation he reminds me of the lead singer!
@fmbighair
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah same era too. I would love to see more straight singing in
@chrisfortin4933
2 жыл бұрын
Omg he does! Legit
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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12 inches of snow is one of the best hip hop albums ever.
I remember hearing this song on the radio back in the 90’s, great memories 🙏🏻🤘🏻🇨🇦
Jim Carrey’s parody of that song on In Living Color was hilarious 😂
I STILL jam to Snow today. I was just a teenager when his album came out and even my mom liked him! She was amazed I could understand the words and learn them lol.
This is a truly incredible documentary
@djdigitaldread
4 жыл бұрын
@Paul Morrissey watch this watch this kzread.info/dash/bejne/hGqOtbSPiKzJnrg.html
This dude put more work in and has more street cred than 90 percent of these chump ass fake ass rappers today. Superfact!
@connoisseuroftigolbitts
2 жыл бұрын
Not more then Jim Carrey’s imposter
@mrfake675
2 жыл бұрын
Yep. New rappers let the production do all the work. If the power went out there lack of talent would be exposed. It's smoke and mirrors
@Grief944
2 жыл бұрын
I can’t take any one who says superfact serious
@Gitterdone
6 ай бұрын
@@mrfake675man… I can send you some real rap that probably ain’t no one ever gon hear because of the lack of production
Before Eminem.....There was Snow, with all the charisma, style, flow and vibe.......👊🏾💯🔥
Loved this dudes music back in elementary school. I played lady in the red dress one time in my music class. ❤😂
Thats a legend right there... Snow has just that something in his voice and songs that still make me listen to his music in 2019...and i cant get sick of hearing that beautiful voice
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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Sad to see good people getting betrayed, however, those good people always receive the ultimate blessings💪🏾💪🏾One Love Prince🇯🇲
@fmbighair
2 жыл бұрын
Wow that’s deep. In other words, if you achieve greatness and don’t get the rewards instantly, it will come even more one day
I once had the honour and pleasure of meeting him and I have to say he is one the realest cats out there. He's very down to earth and humble if didn't know who he was you would never know he's a celebraty.
At the time he was accused of being a culture vulture, a poser like Vanilla Ice, but he never came out and promoted his street cred because he didn't care. He was actually a real one.
I'm sure I'm dating myself here but imagine if snow and bizzy bone did a track... I think their flows would go great together
Good old days when artists had to have talent to sing and write and be in the process of making the beats, and hustle to come on top
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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@andrecato2261
2 жыл бұрын
Americans didn't see it that way. Especially hip hop heads.
Snow was fire and had a very original sound. I remember him getting so much shit in the 90’s and fizzled out. Jim Carey and in living color kind of buried him. I bump his shit now in 2019 it’s hard body af
@jaydub5555
3 жыл бұрын
The whole album rides
@MrEXtraRaw
2 жыл бұрын
😅
@connoisseuroftigolbitts
2 жыл бұрын
“ Watered Down Reggae “ Jim Carey was a fool 😂
@andrecato2261
2 жыл бұрын
He was hardly any of that but he had fun and a good run..shout out to MC Shan
@davidemmet7343
7 ай бұрын
Most gangster rap artists are posers. The whole issue of authenticity and cultural appropriation is ridiculous. Every culture borrows from another! Informer and Ice Ice Baby stand on their own and are as good and authentic as most other rap music. My only complaint is that the whole genre of rap and hip hop tends to glorify misogyny, gang violence, consumerism and unbridled ego.
This video said it all, it's evident that Dj Prince is the one that made Snow who he is today.
Didn't know MC Shan was the producer behind Snow. What a great surprise.
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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"wayne lonesome"in jamaica brought me here..go check out the interview...certainly opens your mind regarding this bredda snow!
@djdigitaldread
5 жыл бұрын
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@outtayardstudio
4 жыл бұрын
@@djdigitaldread ☝️🙏
I'm working on doing a great karaoke version of Informer for my 40th bday. Lololol, dream big!! (But honestly, it's not easy, I dare anyone to give it a try to keep pace w/Snow). ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Snow is so talented wow. very very talented person
Back then cultural appropriation wasn’t on people’s minds. The talent shone through
Snow is literally 🔥
They played this song all the time in Gold's Gym in Las Vegas in 1993.
he was the Eminem of reggae/hip hop/rap in a sense
@sonrize7679
7 жыл бұрын
M. O.G. fuck femeniem
@deadfred821
5 жыл бұрын
Eminem busted into the rap scene with not just a skill, but a high performance level that arguably puts him with one of, if not, the greatest. Snow gets props; but you can't say the same about him. Dude was fucking up his life & thanks to di yardi dem, music became his saviour. Eminem was ALWAYS into his music & came up, paid dues & went through it. Snow started DJ-ing in jail & got put on after a trip to NY. Both had their respective come up stories, but they're two different stories and are NOT equal in their respective genres.... PERIOD!
@villiantwo
3 жыл бұрын
dude hes been around way before EM.. and there's a bunch of white rappers before EM by the way.
@kidbreaker1500
3 жыл бұрын
Wait! What? Whatchu talkin bout arnold? Yo you need to read up on your history kid.
@theboothakarichierich8129
3 жыл бұрын
@@sonrize7679 U Bugging Em is the Nicest MC to EVER pick up a Mic. Don't be a HATER!!!!
I'm amazed that a movie hasn't been made about Snow's life.
One of the artist of a lifetime /century
You guys were in Vancouver too huh? This is so classic! MC Shan, Marvin Prince and Snow you guys rule
@djdigitaldread
5 жыл бұрын
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I miss these days ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤80 babies rock this 💪🏾💯💯💯💯
Host is Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General! Anyway, shout out to TO, alot of artists out there paved the way for the future of Canadian Hip Hop!
Never knew that this existed, thanks for posting
this is the best thing ive watched on youtube!!!long live snow!!!2022!!!
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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I never saw this special. Snow was always so dope. Informer, Lonely Monday Morning and especially Anything For You (Remix).
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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Absolutely amazing, thanks for the upload ✌️
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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When the president of Warner Canada says he's never heard of someone getting out of prison and making an album... In 1993..........murdahmurdahmurdah was da case that they gave me!
This music is freaking blast from the past 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽 Still listening 2022
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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"A lot of us associate rap music with Jamaica.." Wait, what?
@Johnny-yw3sr
4 жыл бұрын
Do some research you will be surprised
@jok8331
4 жыл бұрын
Indeed! We do not associate it we KNOW it is from Jamaica.
@robertnicholls9917
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, chanting was well before rap. It's the EXACT same thing just with a Caribbean accent over reggae.
@sonrize7679
4 жыл бұрын
Your an idiot, go listen to wacktrap puss.
@crushsatan
3 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing. A lot of people associate rap music with New York is more accurate.
The Rascalz brought canadian hip hop on my map!
Him singing runway is awesome! Wish there was a full live video
@kofiprince8551
2 жыл бұрын
There is
Yoooo, I thought this man was fake af but he’s a real one.
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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Do you want snow!? BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU GET SNOW!
God snow was fit as hell back in the day!
Sad you two fell out, seemed like a good friendship at the time. Snows mom even bigged you up.
@djdigitaldread
5 жыл бұрын
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@djdigitaldread
5 жыл бұрын
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@TinaLouise73
4 жыл бұрын
I am a big fan of you both! Life is too short time to bury the hatchet
Pine-Sol bro, i still go back to my kid years when I smell it.
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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Where SNOW grew up (Allenbury Gardens Public Housing, North York, Toronto) and where Keanu Reeves went to school (North Toronto Collegiate Institute) were actually VERY close to each other. Roughly 9 KM or 5.6 Miles !!
I remember seeing that arsenio Hall show live, also remember him doing a few others 90s we're lit.
Good video. Thanks for sharing.
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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9:23 I've always liked Snow, but he reached legendary status in my book when he said "assault police" ✊🏾
@danielcadwell9812
Жыл бұрын
There's something wrong with you.
Love and respect snow he his a legend
So glad this got posted!
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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Dude seems pretty grounded for double platinum.
Big ups to Marvin mad respect to the guy. If it wasn't for him I reckon there would have been no Snow!
I remember when this came out, just before high school, I never heard any other song besides informer. The game is a little different here in the US, we all thought he was a snitch lol. Nobody in my neighborhood was blasting a song called informer you feel me lol.
When your Mom says, “All kids steal chocolate bars from the drugstore” you can expect that kid to go to jail!
@djdigitaldread
5 жыл бұрын
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wow I swear the houses in snows old neighbourhood looks almost like the houses where I grew up in Birmingham UK
I'm so excited i found out he is still doing music
I made his lines from Con Calma my ringtone because the man is da originator! Big up Snow, Dj Prince and MC Shan!
@djdigitaldread
5 жыл бұрын
One love Zilli
@djdigitaldread
5 жыл бұрын
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I was in my mid 20's, working electro-mechanical assembly job with a bunch of 19 y.o. kids who were going to ITT Tech for their "degree". This song was huge and when it came on on the floor, work stopped.
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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Tell them this is the origins of rap ,hip hop ect . Jamaican
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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Lols at how young the crowd is
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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Love it! I used to tell my girls in high school that the song story was Jamaican patois for snitches get stitches
Say what you want but this was a time of people writing their own songs and making their own beats.
@djdigitaldread
3 жыл бұрын
Real talk
Think the lady even thought what "12 inches of snow" was about?
@d.johnson9957
4 жыл бұрын
LMAO!! 😂😂
I very much enjoyed this
@djdigitaldread
8 жыл бұрын
One love Erik
@djdigitaldread
5 жыл бұрын
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"That is SO lovely " Best
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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Only in Canada can you get an endorsement from a cop that arrested you.
Excellent to see more and more about SNOW.... for me is the best singer ever.... shame that marketing now days makes only plastic singers of sh$#**
@djdigitaldread
8 жыл бұрын
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@juliocesarcaceres9131
8 жыл бұрын
thanks regards!
@adriannaford2495
6 жыл бұрын
Julio César Cáceres hhjkoffukkjdfhjklokkmi
@djdigitaldread
5 жыл бұрын
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*"Imposter" from Jim Carrey (In Living Color) brought me here😆*
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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Moms lookin hot!
@prodbymef1537
5 жыл бұрын
straight cougar
@sweetiepie4328
5 жыл бұрын
Is this comment from the 80s??
Two things you need to know about the J to tha R O C
Great song of my youth. Great guy 👍🏿
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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this guy snow rocks way back in early 90's ,it was about the same time dr. Alban emerges in Sweden
One hit wonder, but he was talented. The stuff he did was too niche at the time. It was too chill. They would fit right in now. He'd be selling today.
@yvettebowles9011
3 жыл бұрын
He wasn't a one hit wonder though. He had a few top 10/number 1/ and top 50. Even in the states he charted high enough not to be in the one hit wonder category.
@Tusc9969
3 жыл бұрын
"One hit wonders" will ALWAYS be better than a "Never was"!!
@allenm.355
2 жыл бұрын
Are you sure he was a 1 hit wonder.....chech out his catalog
@Ultradude604
2 жыл бұрын
@@allenm.355 Let's see if I remember. What I call a hit would be something that plays on the radio. He got like 1 or 2 more songs. "Girl I've been hurt...now I need another lover..." And another one which I wasn't feeling. So maybe 2 and a half songs that made it.
@Ultradude604
2 жыл бұрын
@@Tusc9969 True dat! I have great respect for "one hit wonders"!
good stuff marv!!!
@djdigitaldread
8 жыл бұрын
Thanks E rex
That tall black lady he was signing his autograph too, swear I seen her on the Don Mills 25 Bus a few years ago. She looks the same. Allenbury's not the same anymore, after like 2007 they knocked it down bare condos everywhere now.
You never know where life will take you....
Drink a beer and punch you in da mouth! Best line
wish snow would drop a new album! saludos desde guatemala
This Trini Man stamp this artist as an all-time classic!
His mum "ALL little kids steal chocolate bars" 😂😂😂
Lady with the red dress on , hey pretty love ... bangerzz!
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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26 years ago! 😮
Shhh! What?! I am an expat from California, now in Canada... and everyday it seems I have to say, “they’re Canadian, too??” Its fitting that life landed me here , but it would have been nice to know that I would keep being enlightened by almost all the artists I’ve ever enjoyed. 🤯
@djdigitaldread
2 жыл бұрын
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Jim Carrey did it the best when he was at the show ‘In living colour’ -Imposter. I’m just a middle-class white kid from Toronto. In spilte of how me sound…
The men that informed on Jesus Christ. Snow the Canadian.
"Informer" is a 1992 song
@mrsain19
4 ай бұрын
sure is. and that wave ran hard into the spring of 93. but yes, official release was summer of 92.
Snow is probably more real and gangster than everyone in NWA except maybe for Eazy. The rest of them were sorta poseurs. Especially Ice Cube. Eazy is the only guy who lived the life fully.