Informer

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Informer by Snow

About Informer

"Informer" was the lone hit single for Canadian reggae artist Snow. It was one of many songs that helped popularize the reggae sound in popular music during the 90s, along with other hits by artists like Diana King, Shabba Ranks, and Shaggy. The lyrics are delivered with a heavy patois that make them "unintelligible" to standard English speakers, to the point the song was parodied by Jim Carrey on In Living Color. Still, the single was very popular and remains a staple of 90's nostalgia. .

Informer Lyrics

[00:01.40] What's up man! Hey yo what's up!
[00:02.92] Yeah what's goin' on here?
[00:04.19] Sick an' tired of five-oh runnin' up on the block here
[00:07.46] You know what I'm sayin'?
[00:08.22] Yo Snow, they came around lookin' for you the other day
[00:10.44] Word? Word! Bust it!
[00:13.57]
[00:21.95] Informer
[00:23.20] You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
[00:25.51] A licky boom-boom down
[00:26.95] 'Tective man says see Daddy me
[00:28.50] Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
[00:30.54] A licky boom-boom down
[00:32.02] Informer
[00:33.07] You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
[00:35.21] A licky boom-boom down
[00:36.73] 'Tective man says see Daddy me
[00:38.52] Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
[00:40.13] A licky boom-boom down
[00:41.71] Police-a them-a they come and-a they blow down me door
[00:44.05] One him come crawl through through my window
[00:46.38] So they put me in the back of the car at the station
[00:48.70] From that point on I reach my destination
[00:51.38] Where the destination reached was the East Detention
[00:53.59] Where they whipped down me pants and looked up me bottom
[00:56.06] So Informer
[00:57.55] You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
[00:59.99] A licky boom-boom down
[01:01.25] 'Tective man says see Daddy me
[01:02.51] Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
[01:04.80] A licky boom-boom down
[01:06.55] Informer
[01:07.72] You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
[01:09.52] A licky boom-boom down
[01:10.95] 'Tective man says see Daddy me
[01:12.38] Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
[01:14.35] A licky boom-boom down, so
[01:16.09] Bigger are them think them have more power
[01:18.35] Them on the phone me said that on hour
[01:20.64] Me for want to use it once to call me lover
[01:23.10] Lover who me gonna callin' on the one Tammy
[01:25.40] And me love her me heart down to my belly
[01:28.46] Yes me Daddy me Snow, me are the cool and deadly
[01:30.65] The one MC Shan and the one that is
[01:32.61] Snow
[01:33.34] Together we are love'em as a tornado
[01:35.37] Informer
[01:36.76] You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
[01:38.96] A licky boom-boom down
[01:40.30] 'Tective man says see Daddy me
[01:41.77] Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
[01:43.31] A licky boom-boom down
[01:45.09] Informer
[01:46.67] You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
[01:48.69] A licky boom-boom down
[01:50.07] 'Tective man says see Daddy me
[01:51.22] Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
[01:53.23] A licky boom-boom down, so
[01:55.18] Listen for me ya better listen for me now
[01:57.67] Listen for me ya better listen for me now
[01:59.94] When me rock the microphone, me rock it steady
[02:02.57] Yes sir
[02:03.12] Daddy Snow me are the Article Don
[02:04.86] When me in at a dance them say, "Where you come from?"
[02:07.18] People them say I come from Jamaica
[02:09.56] But me born and raised in the ghetto
[02:11.25] That's all me man want you to know
[02:12.44] Pure black people man that's all I man know
[02:14.54] My shoes used to tear up and my toes used to show
[02:16.80] Where me born is the one Toronto, so
[02:19.49] Informer
[02:20.64] You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
[02:23.09] A licky boom-boom down
[02:24.53] 'Tective man says see Daddy me
[02:25.98] Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
[02:27.72] A licky boom-boom down
[02:29.16] Informer
[02:30.46] You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
[02:32.86] A licky boom-boom down
[02:34.32] 'Tective man says see Daddy me
[02:35.35] Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
[02:37.54] A licky boom-boom down
[02:39.22] Come with a nice young lady
[02:41.14] Intelligent, yes she's gentle and irie
[02:43.31] Everywhere me go me never left here at all
[02:46.10] Yes, Daddy Snow me at the roam the dance man
[02:48.62] Roam it in a dance in every nation
[02:51.33] You'd never know, say Daddy me Snow
[02:52.54] Me at the Boom Shakata
[02:53.70] Me never lay down flat in one cardboard box
[02:56.19] Yes, Daddy me
[02:57.17] Snow I go reachin' out the top, so
[02:58.26] Informer
[03:00.10] You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
[03:02.43] A licky boom-boom down
[03:03.55] 'Tective man says see Daddy me
[03:04.96] Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
[03:06.90] A licky boom-boom down
[03:08.38] Informer
[03:09.70] You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
[03:11.39] A licky boom-boom down
[03:13.27] 'Tective man says see Daddy me
[03:14.75] Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
[03:16.90] A licky boom-boom down
[03:19.40] Why would he?
[03:22.10]
[03:25.94] Me sitting round cool with my dibby dibby girl
[03:27.90] Police knock my door, lick up my pal
[03:30.56] Rough me up and I can't do a thing
[03:32.99] Pick up my line when my telephone ring
[03:35.27] Take me to the station, black up my hands
[03:37.70] Trail me down 'cause I'm hanging with the Snowman
[03:40.14] What am I gonna do, I'm backed and I'm trapped
[03:42.41] Slap me in my face, look all of my gap
[03:44.91] They have no clues and they wanna get warmer
[03:47.59] But Shan won't turn informer
[03:50.02] Informer
[03:51.33] You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
[03:53.50] A licky boom-boom down
[03:55.04] 'Tective man says see Daddy me
[03:56.25] Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
[03:58.31] A licky boom-boom down
[03:59.93] Informer
[04:01.22] You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
[04:03.35] A licky boom-boom down
[04:04.82] 'Tective man says see Daddy me
[04:06.17] Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
[04:08.10] A licky boom-boom down
[04:09.13]

From the album: Reggae Essentials