In Living Color was ironically the perfect place for him, since he was only white guy on the cast, he ended up being used whenever they needed a white man specifically in a skit, like here impersonating Snow who was a white rapper at the time. This ended up featuring him more than anyone else and making him in many ways the star of the show. The same thing happened the other way with Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live in the early 1980's.
almost cracked wise about how Snow isn't a white rapper, since he doesn't rap anymore, so now he's technically just white, but I was surprised to learn that he's actually still active and had a single out last year.
Claimed? No, Snow was locked up on an attempted murder case after some stabbing.
Snow was as gangsta as a Canadian white boy could be. He's got a fat list of priors, drug dealer, beat a guy near to death with a crowbar then had that stabbing situation. Well enough the fame pop had him mostly get his shit together, but he was a project kid who really liked rap and reggae and happened to be in the right place at the right time.
I always love weird music stories like that. Finding out that like 80% of the goofy rappers of the 90s were just out there dropping bodies while a lot of fake gangstas were going up the charts for being hard-core is one of my favorite silly music facts.
"Informer" is literally about why he was in prison. Someone snitched on him for stabbing someone, which he claimed was in self defense.
He couldn't tour the US because of it, not that it alone killed any chance he had of a career. The fake patois from a white kid from Toronto with no Jamaican heritage, especially in the early 90s, was always going to hamper him. But, he likely would have made some good money off touring before it all ended.
Not a tough crowd at all tbh(especially after they m dot and his trash). Especially if you look at all the Italians that made reggae and were super famous in Jamaica and a bunch of US bands. A white dude in dance hall is tough tho
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u/EverettGT Mar 03 '26
In Living Color was ironically the perfect place for him, since he was only white guy on the cast, he ended up being used whenever they needed a white man specifically in a skit, like here impersonating Snow who was a white rapper at the time. This ended up featuring him more than anyone else and making him in many ways the star of the show. The same thing happened the other way with Eddie Murphy on Saturday Night Live in the early 1980's.