😂 it is so not what he thinks it was i guess you are speaking or at least understand Jamaican. Its better cause im likky boum boum now doesnt sound gangster to me 😂😂 From Mitzy Montreal quebec canada
He's talking about getting retribution against a police informer who (wrongfully) ratted him out to the police for a stabbing. It's all in a Jamaican accent because, while he's a white Canadian man, he grew up in a Toronto Jamaican neighbourhood.
@@thedeewolf not sure but I know a lot of his friends were Jamaican and so they introduced him to reggae and thus he learned the lingo .... his friend and artist Marvin prince name him Superb Notorious Outrageous Whiteboy (SNOW)
I've listened to this either in my house, my car but especially on my little boat with a big amp and everyone who heard "informer" or 4 or 5 other jams on that album went out themselves and bought it. Most that hear it will like it. And I'm way over 30...
In a '93 documentary, Snow says the line implies fisticuffs-“'A licky boom-boom down' means, like, I'll hit down the informer; I'll knock the informer out”-yet the music video's pantomimed gunshots suggest something more lethal.
axelg5 he doesn’t say blam. He says blame. He is saying the informer has wrongly blamed him for the stabbing. So now the detective says that snow stabbed someone ‘down the lane’
@@chrisragona3945 it can mean both. "Lick" is used in its meaning as a physical assault, as in "he wants to fight? I'll give him a licking", or "takes a licking and keeps on ticking". Bum bum means butt, so he is literally saying "ill kick his ass". BUT emphasing the bum bum the way he does, he uses it as onomatopaeia for the noise of gunshots. So now its like "ill shoot his ass". But it seriously could be interpreted either way, so he wasnt lying-just not telling the whole truth.
I’m 37.. I remember this song from back in the day! I think it was one Dance Mix 94.. such a good album! Lol 😂 oh man.. this was great, I look forward to seeing younger generations discover these songs. 💜
He grew up in Toronto in a Jamaican neighborhood and got accused of murder or something but wouldn’t snitch... the lick your boom boom down Or whatever he says is a Jamaican saying about taking snitches out 😂 but I always thought it was a perverted thing when I was a kid and it came out
, James this is your new fan AKA Elvis Junkie suggesting that you play American Trilogy Bridge Over Troubled Waters that's lost you Polk Salad Annie there's more you can find all these through TH-cam not TH-cam but Google I don't know how to send links I've been an Elvis fan since I was 11 I'm an old lady now it's 75 but as far as I'm concerned he is the goat the greatest of all time became it would do my heart and so good if you would play one of these songs once in awhile and dedicated out if you do that kind of stuff I don't know I haven't so far I haven't heard you do it but I do enjoy your enthusiasm and your appreciation of the fact that he was described as he was AKA that was Junkie
Now you need to hear Tone Loc 'Funky Cold Medina' and 'Wild Thing', the KLF 'Justified and Ancient', Ini Kamoze 'Here Comes the Hotstepper', Lucas 'Lucas With the Lid Off', Heavy D and the Boys 'Now That We Found Love' and Londonbeat 'I Been Thinking About You'. All great party tracks from the 90s!
I remember when MTV premiered this video. Yes I'm that old. Anyways, MTV had to put the lyrics on the video cause people didn't understand what he was saying
In college, we had a white dude from Jamaica and he sounded just like Snow. You couldn't understand half the words he was saying because his accent was so strong.
Ayeo it’s a southern USA thing too the kids that had real A$$ whippings while growing up knows what’s up. Ever hear the saying “took a licking and keeps on ticking”
I grew up Vancouver in the 70s/80s and "lick" meant beat in some kind of competition, but it usually referred to a fight. Getting a "licking" though, specifically meant getting a spanking or beating from a parent, as a punishment. That was still kosher in those days. The neighbourhood was ethnically mixed with mainly caucasian, chinese, portugese and native indian, but no jamaican at all.
I never understood the lyrics back in the day...we just danced to them! LOL Still do...even though it is more painful now. "Growing old is mandatory...growing up is optional"!
Snow - Informer Lyrics 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 lookin' for you the other day. Word? Word! Bust it! Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down Police-a them-a they come and-a they blow down me door One him come crawl through through my window So they put me in the back of the car at the station From that point on I reach my destination Where the destination reached was the East Detention Where they whipped down me pants and looked up me bottom So Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down, so Bigger are them think them have more power Them on the phone me said that on hour Me for want to use it once to call me lover Lover who me gonna callin' on the one Tammy And me love her me heart down to my belly Yes me Daddy me Snow, me are the cool and deadly The one MC Shan and the one that is Snow Together we are love'em as a tornado Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down, so Listen for me ya better listen for me now Listen for me ya better listen for me now When me rock the microphone, me rock it steady Yes sir Daddy Snow me are the Article Don When me in at a dance them say, "Where you come from?" People them say I come from Jamaica But me born and raised in the ghetto That's all me man want you to know Pure black people man that's all I man know My shoes used to tear up and my toes used to show Where me born is the one Toronto, so Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down Come with a nice young lady Intelligent, yes she's gentle and irie Everywhere me go me never left here at all Yes, Daddy Snow me at the roam the dance man Roam it in a dance in every nation You'd never know, say Daddy me Snow me at the Boom Shakata Me never lay down flat in one cardboard box Yes, Daddy me Snow I go reachin' out the top, so Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down Why would he? Me sitting round cool with my dibby dibby girl Police knock my door, lick up my pal Rough me up and 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 'cause I'm hanging with the Snowman What am I gonna do, I'm backed and I'm trapped Slap me in my face, look all of my gap They have no clues and they wanna get warmer But Shan won't turn informer Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down
I really love your reaction videos man. I feel the positive vibes and energy you strive to relay on camera, it's great! As for your question, no he isn't talking about that. The lyric, I'll lick ya!! Boom, Boom down, means he will shoot you if you snitch on him to the cops.
This cat is the real deal, grew up in the projects, loves black music and Jamaican culture, and has been co-signed by brothas for a very long time, not Jamaican but doesn't matter, i remember when this first came out, you couldn't go anywhere without hearing this bumpin in peoples cars, people playing it out on the porch chillin etc
That’s say early 90’s. I enjoyed watching you enjoying. Musics my air. Much lov And there’s more music out there u yet hav watched and heard of , from back in the da. I grew up during MtV music and music videos was the normal. Fuckn lov your reaction .
Are you sure you have never "heard" it? Con Calma by Daddy Yankee, is essentially a half cover, it uses the music and Snow even shows up to do the one English part.
Every time I hear this it reminds me of the Chris Rock special from the early 2000's. You know, the one where he talks about the Tossed Salad Guy, from the HBO Jailhouse Special. Because in the HBO bio, this song is playing while an inmate talks about intimate moments shared by 2 men in close quarters.
Thank you for not stopping it like so many do. As for licky part🤣, that really wouldn't make any sense if you really think about it. 🤣I think it's just a different type of slang that people in the US really couldn't understand. I think you have to be from that area or maybe Jamaica to really get it like they do.
Another truly Canadian band you NEED to listen to, The Tragically Hip, my Favs are Bobcaygeon, New Orleans is sinking and Low High Dough. Love your positivity and openness. Keep doing what you are doing!
I like this song, but that "Anything For You Remix" is like my favorite song from him. That posse cut still holds up & it has EVERYBODY on that damn song!
@@lordpike wrong its lick ya boom boom down . I know snow personally and grew up in the projects where jamaicans raised me. In my opinion. If you can prove it appreciate that. Cause likey means friend so could be snow being sarcastic.
Hiya, Snow is a fellow Canadian from Scarborough, Ontario (near Toronto) who grew up in a predominately Jamaican neighbourhood. As I understand it, 'a licky boom boom dem' means the "informers" are "ass-kissers" in Jamaican.
*I wish someone would react to a lyric video 'cause even though I was there when this came out I have no idea what he's saying for most of the song🤣🤣🤣* love this btw❤
Snow got snitched on (informer) for something he didn't do, spent 8 months in jail. When the music video came out, he ended up watching it with his jail mates: th-cam.com/video/bjyimHzXKKs/w-d-xo.html
Hi. Wanted to tell you I'm really enjoying your reactions. I also thought the song "History Repeating" by Propellerheads might interest you. It's a song mixing old and (relatively) new while talking about fads and trends. Your reactions bring older songs to light for a whole new generation, somewhat like this song does. So by reacting to it you would be bringing the music of Propellerheads to a new generation, who brought Shirley Bassey to their generation. (or something like that) Take care and stay safe!
He was in a knife fight behind a bar in Toronto at 19 ,he was eventualy charged with attempted murder , but while in jail ,charges were dropped to aggravated assault, the informer was someone who happened to witness the knife fight and was worried he would INFORM on him.
From what I can gather people from the region are saying here, "I lick yuh, boom boom, down" seems to be equivalent to "I'll fix your wagon" or "I'm gonna getcha" That is, he is saying he is gonna get revenge
Please do old school 80's all star jam. SAM KINISON: "Wild thing." Sam was an ex preacher turned comedian who was killed in a car accident. For a time, he was the hottest comedian out there and a huge Rock fan.
I'm pretty sure when he says Lick a boom ,he means to shoot at some one ,or hit someone with something like lick a shot,(btw -lick a shot by Cypress Hill another classic tune of the album Black Sunday which is in my top fifteen hip-hop albums of all time could be top ten but it's maybe 11 or 12 but they always change again everytime I listen to it u should do some more of Cypress Hill bro💯🤔🔥 They are legends of the game, anyway back to the subject -)or lick a man down with a bat or a hammer or something or even sometimes a punch It just means to f**k someone up, I think anyway 🤔😂✌️😎Plus the song is called Informer,so that's what I think he means, shooting at a snitch or an enemy,(I think anyway I ain't Jamaican so who am I to chat 😂💯) Another great reaction bro keep growing and staying up, One of the best reactions channels,no question about it, and I think u right there are too many channels that pause the video every 2seconds some times it's better to wait for the song to play through then react , 💯✌️🙏😎
In a '93 documentary, Snow says the line implies fisticuffs-“'A licky boom-boom down' means, like, I'll hit down the informer; I'll knock the informer out”-yet the music video's pantomimed gunshots suggest something more lethal.Oct 12, 2016
Informer 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 lookin' for you the other day Word? Word! Bust it! Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down Police-a them-a they come and-a they blow down me door One him come crawl through through my window So they put me in the back of the car at the station From that point on I reach my destination Where the destination reached was the East Detention Where they whipped down me pants and looked up me bottom So Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down, so Bigger are them think them have more power Them on the phone me said that on hour Me for want to use it once to call me lover Lover who me gonna callin' on the one Tammy And me love her me heart down to my belly Yes me Daddy me Snow, me are the cool and deadly The one MC Shan and the one that is Snow Together we are love'em as a tornado Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down, so Listen for me ya better listen for me now Listen for me ya better listen for me now When me rock the microphone, me rock it steady Yes sir Daddy Snow me are the Article Don When me in at a dance them say, "Where you come from?" People them say I come from Jamaica But me born and raised in the ghetto That's all me man want you to know Pure black people man that's all I man know My shoes used to tear up and my toes used to show Where me born is the one Toronto, so Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down Come with a nice young lady Intelligent, yes she's gentle and irie Everywhere me go me never left here at all Yes, Daddy Snow me at the roam the dance man Roam it in a dance in every nation You'd never know, say Daddy me Snow Me at the Boom Shakata Me never lay down flat in one cardboard box Yes, Daddy me Snow I go reachin' out the top, so Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down Why would he? Me sitting round cool with my dibby dibby girl Police knock my door, lick up my pal Rough me up and 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 'cause I'm hanging with the Snowman What am I gonna do, I'm backed and I'm trapped Slap me in my face, look all of my gap They have no clues and they wanna get warmer But Shan won't turn informer Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down Informer You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame A licky boom-boom down 'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane A licky boom-boom down
I dunno: they gave him the Vanilla Ice treatment for this LP, and he didn't really do a lot afterwards... Groovy a track as it is, he's kinda a one hit wonder for the appropriation..
For what? Sayin he'd ice a snitch? I don't keep up with this mumblecrap, but do rappers not rap about snitches getting stitches anymore? Or do you mean for the Jamaican patois? That's just how his hood raised him. Nothing to object to. No one jumped down Matisyahu's throat for invoking it as a Hassidic Jew.
Lol “A licky boom-boom dem” gets misheard a lot, he’s saying the snitch (informer) is an ass kisser to the cops. Love this song man, one of the many I grew up on. The story behind it is pretty nuts too.
No, "A likky boom boom down" sounds dirty, but it actually means he's threatening to shoot the guy who snitched on him.
Yeah, it's "leaky", not "licky"
Basically he will pop the informer and boom they are down before they even realize what happened to them.
he is warning the guy the lied on him
😂 it is so not what he thinks it was i guess you are speaking or at least understand Jamaican. Its better cause im likky boum boum now doesnt sound gangster to me 😂😂
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Montreal quebec canada
@The Dreamer "A" licky boom-boom dem, as in those lowlifes that tried to rat me out.
He's talking about getting retribution against a police informer who (wrongfully) ratted him out to the police for a stabbing.
It's all in a Jamaican accent because, while he's a white Canadian man, he grew up in a Toronto Jamaican neighbourhood.
Apparently he was adopted by his Jamaican friends family after his parents died..?
Was it Kingston Ontario? HAHA
@@thedeewolf not sure but I know a lot of his friends were Jamaican and so they introduced him to reggae and thus he learned the lingo .... his friend and artist Marvin prince name him Superb Notorious Outrageous Whiteboy (SNOW)
@@smitherschad Scarborough
@@thedeewolf No lol
The best rapper nobody has heard of. He wrote alot of his album "12 inches of Snow" while in jail.
12 inches of snow is also a great name lol
You have if you’re older than 30 lol. This was all over the radio when I was a kid.
I've listened to this either in my house, my car but especially on my little boat with a big amp and everyone who heard "informer" or 4 or 5 other jams on that album went out themselves and bought it. Most that hear it will like it. And I'm way over 30...
Yep... attempted murder charge
Explains his swagger.
Lots of Jamaicans up in Canada. ‘When does summer start?’ ‘Sorry bud this is summer’ 😂 heard this a few times in my life
🤣🤣
True, like Ayesha Curry and her family.
‘Sorry bud this is summer’ - I read this in a Canadian accent.
So, were the Jamaicans in Canada the inspiration behind Cool Running?
@@rmarca8306 Cool Runnings was based on the Bobsled team from Jamaica.
@@RobiticDuck I'm aware. It was supposed to be a joke, but jokes don't read well in text many times.
In a '93 documentary, Snow says the line implies fisticuffs-“'A licky boom-boom down' means, like, I'll hit down the informer; I'll knock the informer out”-yet the music video's pantomimed gunshots suggest something more lethal.
Boom boom is a gun. He’s saying he’ll shoot the informer down. Interview might just be trying to put a nicer face on it for the kids.
axelg5 he doesn’t say blam. He says blame.
He is saying the informer has wrongly blamed him for the stabbing. So now the detective says that snow stabbed someone ‘down the lane’
of course he said that in an interview. But it means he was going to shoot him.
@@chrisragona3945 it can mean both. "Lick" is used in its meaning as a physical assault, as in "he wants to fight? I'll give him a licking", or "takes a licking and keeps on ticking". Bum bum means butt, so he is literally saying "ill kick his ass". BUT emphasing the bum bum the way he does, he uses it as onomatopaeia for the noise of gunshots. So now its like "ill shoot his ass". But it seriously could be interpreted either way, so he wasnt lying-just not telling the whole truth.
When different cultures come together it often results in something very interesting. This is a prime example of that: Canada meets Jamaica.
this song would not happen today, it would be called cultural appropriation ....which is sad but these are the times we're living in
Doesnt sound that different to Jamaica meets the UK if we're being honest..
Exactly... kinda like spanglish lol
@@lennon1482 no fam not with jamaicans, they are some of the most accepting people when it comes to different races
@@bobbiewhite1647 Or Franglais!
I’m 37.. I remember this song from back in the day! I think it was one Dance Mix 94.. such a good album! Lol 😂 oh man.. this was great, I look forward to seeing younger generations discover these songs. 💜
He grew up in Toronto in a Jamaican neighborhood and got accused of murder or something but wouldn’t snitch... the lick your boom boom down Or whatever he says is a Jamaican saying about taking snitches out 😂 but I always thought it was a perverted thing when I was a kid and it came out
He's Canadian. Go figure. In an interview he revealed he was locked up when the song hit.
"Epic" by Faith No More..
Yessssss
agreed
Anything from Angel dust!
I love that song!!!
More 90s party music..I love it!
Another cool party rap song Kid n play rolling with kid n play
UTFO Roxanne Roxanne
, James this is your new fan AKA Elvis Junkie suggesting that you play American Trilogy Bridge Over Troubled Waters that's lost you Polk Salad Annie there's more you can find all these through TH-cam not TH-cam but Google I don't know how to send links I've been an Elvis fan since I was 11 I'm an old lady now it's 75 but as far as I'm concerned he is the goat the greatest of all time became it would do my heart and so good if you would play one of these songs once in awhile and dedicated out if you do that kind of stuff I don't know I haven't so far I haven't heard you do it but I do enjoy your enthusiasm and your appreciation of the fact that he was described as he was AKA that was Junkie
Now you need to hear Tone Loc 'Funky Cold Medina' and 'Wild Thing', the KLF 'Justified and Ancient', Ini Kamoze 'Here Comes the Hotstepper', Lucas 'Lucas With the Lid Off', Heavy D and the Boys 'Now That We Found Love' and Londonbeat 'I Been Thinking About You'. All great party tracks from the 90s!
That's a damn good list of suggestions!
I remember when MTV premiered this video. Yes I'm that old. Anyways, MTV had to put the lyrics on the video cause people didn't understand what he was saying
I honestly think I still wouldn't understand even with subtitles lol.
In college, we had a white dude from Jamaica and he sounded just like Snow. You couldn't understand half the words he was saying because his accent was so strong.
I grew up in St Martian, I'm white but can understand most heavy Caribbean accents,handy now I live in London lol
Lick = beat/hit in Jamaican and Caribbean lingo. So... no, not what you think.
Yep when your parents say you’re gonna get licks, it’s bad times
Ayeo it’s a southern USA thing too the kids that had real A$$ whippings while growing up knows what’s up.
Ever hear the saying “took a licking and keeps on ticking”
I grew up Vancouver in the 70s/80s and "lick" meant beat in some kind of competition, but it usually referred to a fight. Getting a "licking" though, specifically meant getting a spanking or beating from a parent, as a punishment. That was still kosher in those days. The neighbourhood was ethnically mixed with mainly caucasian, chinese, portugese and native indian, but no jamaican at all.
As someone from Toronto, I have to say that I have loved this song since it came out!
Snow did Toronto proud for sure
I never understood the lyrics back in the day...we just danced to them! LOL Still do...even though it is more painful now. "Growing old is mandatory...growing up is optional"!
Check a next Canadian one. Maestro fresh wes "let your backbone slide" you'll like this. Trust.
^Thiiiis!!... Some super good Canuckery... Legend... Be ready to dance, dude!...
Classic
I made the same suggestion on his Jump around reaction video, I loved that song!
Yes! Let’s go!
My dad worked as a security guard in the Eaton Center with Wes back in the day, he has some interesting stories of those days lol
Its " A licky boom boom down"
I played this song to death when this came out.
One only Rap, Reggae and Music Hall fusion song I could think of. That's why it's majestic to my ears. Been almost 30 years, huh?
Still, one of my fav 90s summer bangers!
Love the way you're vibing to it. :D
Man, that's such a beautiful message b4:your videos. Thank you for that 💗😌
Snow - Informer Lyrics
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 lookin' for you the other day.
Word? Word! Bust it!
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
Police-a them-a they come and-a they blow down me door
One him come crawl through through my window
So they put me in the back of the car at the station
From that point on I reach my destination
Where the destination reached was the East Detention
Where they whipped down me pants and looked up me bottom
So Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down, so
Bigger are them think them have more power
Them on the phone me said that on hour
Me for want to use it once to call me lover
Lover who me gonna callin' on the one Tammy
And me love her me heart down to my belly
Yes me Daddy me Snow, me are the cool and deadly
The one MC Shan and the one that is Snow
Together we are love'em as a tornado
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down, so
Listen for me ya better listen for me now
Listen for me ya better listen for me now
When me rock the microphone, me rock it steady
Yes sir Daddy Snow me are the Article Don
When me in at a dance them say, "Where you come from?"
People them say I come from Jamaica
But me born and raised in the ghetto
That's all me man want you to know
Pure black people man that's all I man know
My shoes used to tear up and my toes used to show
Where me born is the one Toronto, so
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
Come with a nice young lady
Intelligent, yes she's gentle and irie
Everywhere me go me never left here at all
Yes, Daddy Snow me at the roam the dance man
Roam it in a dance in every nation
You'd never know, say Daddy me Snow
me at the Boom Shakata
Me never lay down flat in one cardboard box
Yes, Daddy me Snow I go reachin' out the top, so
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
Why would he?
Me sitting round cool with my dibby dibby girl
Police knock my door, lick up my pal
Rough me up and 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 'cause I'm hanging with the Snowman
What am I gonna do, I'm backed and I'm trapped
Slap me in my face, look all of my gap
They have no clues and they wanna get warmer
But Shan won't turn informer
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
THANK U. I JUST LISTENED TO UR REACTION TO HOUSE OF PAIN ABOUT 2HRS AGO AND REQUESTED THIS SONG AS WELL. U WORK FAST. THANK YOU
Maybe do a reaction to Deee-lite's Groove is in the heart
Love this song....brings me back
For a song that lays out the influence of Jamaican Patois' influence on Toronto Slang try Kardinal Official's "Bacardi Slang"
Jim Carrey did an awesome parody of this song called Imposter
Rome, your channel is great man. I appreciate your positivity and it encourages me. Keep it coming!
I really love your reaction videos man. I feel the positive vibes and energy you strive to relay on camera, it's great! As for your question, no he isn't talking about that. The lyric, I'll lick ya!! Boom, Boom down, means he will shoot you if you snitch on him to the cops.
This cat is the real deal, grew up in the projects, loves black music and Jamaican culture, and has been co-signed by brothas for a very long time, not Jamaican but doesn't matter, i remember when this first came out, you couldn't go anywhere without hearing this bumpin in peoples cars, people playing it out on the porch chillin etc
That’s say early 90’s.
I enjoyed watching you enjoying.
Musics my air. Much lov
And there’s more music out there u yet hav watched and heard of , from back in the da. I grew up during MtV music and music videos was the normal.
Fuckn lov your reaction .
Bruv, you should start every video with today’s opening monologue. It’s uplifting and inspiring for those that need it.
Respect from London (UK)
Are you sure you have never "heard" it? Con Calma by Daddy Yankee, is essentially a half cover, it uses the music and Snow even shows up to do the one English part.
Suggestion: "Crazy" by Seal, from 1991. His debut hit, monster funky bottom and beat, plus interesting lyrics. .
everybody sleeps on the first Seal album. Top to bottom, it is beautiful, spacey and heartfelt.
No
Sorry dude Seals first hit was Killer with Adamski
He is talk'n bout beat'n down the Informer! With that line!!
But I can see where you can make that interpretation!
3 A.M. Eternal by the KLF is awesome!
ANYTHING with KLF is awesome!
Every time I hear this it reminds me of the Chris Rock special from the early 2000's. You know, the one where he talks about the Tossed Salad Guy, from the HBO Jailhouse Special. Because in the HBO bio, this song is playing while an inmate talks about intimate moments shared by 2 men in close quarters.
Thank you for not stopping it like so many do. As for licky part🤣, that really wouldn't make any sense if you really think about it. 🤣I think it's just a different type of slang that people in the US really couldn't understand. I think you have to be from that area or maybe Jamaica to really get it like they do.
Another truly Canadian band you NEED to listen to, The Tragically Hip, my Favs are Bobcaygeon, New Orleans is sinking and Low High Dough. Love your positivity and openness. Keep doing what you are doing!
I like this song, but that "Anything For You Remix" is like my favorite song from him. That posse cut still holds up & it has EVERYBODY on that damn song!
A Licky Boom Boom Down.
Boom Boom Down is referring to shooting a snitch. He added "Licky" just because he liked how it sounded
Its lick not licky
@@lunabootcampnews6439 no the official lyrics list it as Licky and watching interviews where he explains it in a non jamaican accent he says it licky
@@lordpike wrong its lick ya boom boom down . I know snow personally and grew up in the projects where jamaicans raised me. In my opinion. If you can prove it appreciate that. Cause likey means friend so could be snow being sarcastic.
love me some snow back in the 90's! you should react to Fu schnickens True fuschnick.
East Detention, had friends that were correction officers there....grew up in Toronto, this was a popular song in university.
That rap interlude near the end is so 80s.
Hiya, Snow is a fellow Canadian from Scarborough, Ontario (near Toronto) who grew up in a predominately Jamaican neighbourhood. As I understand it, 'a licky boom boom dem' means the "informers" are "ass-kissers" in Jamaican.
Its lick not licky
Grew up in the same area as snow....if you're going to lick dem, it means a beating. The same as when a child gets licks for misbehaving.
@@joeposteraros thank you tired of debating it. Shit I knew him
A leaky boom boom down, hit on an informer.
Hit a lick .. Boom boom.. bang bang.. he was arrested for attempted murder. He was locked up when this song came out..
Really living the lyrics...
What up James! Wise words, stay up homles..Peace
Mad respect for not giving a shit about his colour.
He says a licky boom boom dem it means he would like to shoot the informer
I have no idea what it means but we’ve always sang our hearts out! lololol!
AMAZING song!!! " INFORMER" by SNOW..
Don't see my suggest yet homie. Maestro fresh wes "let your backbone slide" beat and bars are hard.
Licky means informer in Jamaica.
He's from Toronto. Just obsessed with Jamaica music since he was 14.
*I wish someone would react to a lyric video 'cause even though I was there when this came out I have no idea what he's saying for most of the song🤣🤣🤣* love this btw❤
Dude right now i have corono. These videos are a nice little bright spot
I love the slang from the Virgin Islands. Too funny.
Snow got snitched on (informer) for something he didn't do, spent 8 months in jail.
When the music video came out, he ended up watching it with his jail mates:
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He's got some other hits that have different vibes:
Lady With A Red Dress
Lonely Monday Morning
Girl, I've Been Hurt
Legal
The First SNOW single "INFORMER"🎵
was Number One in the USA🇺🇸 in 1992
Yo bro you need to react to back to the hotel by n2deep. That song is fire. 🤘🤘
In this case "Lik" means to hit, slap, strike an individual with an object out of violence or in some cases being annoyed by an individual.
Love your reaction! I need to see you react to Back by Dope Demand by King Bee 🐝
Ok now you really need to listen to the other version of this song
Imposter (Snow) by Jim Carey. In Living Color
NOPE. LOL. I love the confusion.
Canadian who grew up in a jamaican neighborhood. Kudos to Snow.
Hi. Wanted to tell you I'm really enjoying your reactions. I also thought the song "History Repeating" by Propellerheads might interest you. It's a song mixing old and (relatively) new while talking about fads and trends. Your reactions bring older songs to light for a whole new generation, somewhat like this song does. So by reacting to it you would be bringing the music of Propellerheads to a new generation, who brought Shirley Bassey to their generation. (or something like that) Take care and stay safe!
He is saying a licky boom boom down!
Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas, please. :)
Lol he's saying a beating and a shooting down!!
He was in a knife fight behind a bar in Toronto at 19 ,he was eventualy charged with attempted murder , but while in jail ,charges were dropped to aggravated assault, the informer was someone who happened to witness the knife fight and was worried he would INFORM on him.
Snow is amazing.
🤣🤣🤣 he is saying he is gonna boom boom the snitch. He actually spent great time in jail for double attempted murder.
the passenger by Iggy Pop is awesome. you should check that out
LOVE THIS JAMAICAN RAP BY " SNOW"!!!
Daddy Yankee remade this last year as Con Calma and brought a now-50s Snow back in as a guest.
From what I can gather people from the region are saying here, "I lick yuh, boom boom, down" seems to be equivalent to "I'll fix your wagon" or "I'm gonna getcha"
That is, he is saying he is gonna get revenge
Like ya boom boom down. Shots
this is the OG 'snitches get stitches' song.
Look up Frog Leap Studios "jump around" this guy did a metal version of it and you won't be disappointed. I promise!
Please do old school 80's all star jam. SAM KINISON: "Wild thing." Sam was an ex preacher turned comedian who was killed in a car accident. For a time, he was the hottest comedian out there and a huge Rock fan.
great song!!
Fun fact.. he actually filmed this while in jail.
The only reggae artist to he number 1 for 7 weeks on Billboard charts as well
I'm pretty sure when he says Lick a boom ,he means to shoot at some one ,or hit someone with something like lick a shot,(btw -lick a shot by Cypress Hill another classic tune of the album Black Sunday which is in my top fifteen hip-hop albums of all time could be top ten but it's maybe 11 or 12 but they always change again everytime I listen to it u should do some more of Cypress Hill bro💯🤔🔥 They are legends of the game, anyway back to the subject -)or lick a man down with a bat or a hammer or something or even sometimes a punch It just means to f**k someone up,
I think anyway 🤔😂✌️😎Plus the song is called Informer,so that's what I think he means, shooting at a snitch or an enemy,(I think anyway I ain't Jamaican so who am I to chat 😂💯)
Another great reaction bro keep growing and staying up, One of the best reactions channels,no question about it, and I think u right there are too many channels that pause the video every 2seconds some times it's better to wait for the song to play through then react ,
💯✌️🙏😎
12 inches of Snow from Canada
Epic from Faith No More
Cypress Hill rock star. You'll dig it!
In a '93 documentary, Snow says the line implies fisticuffs-“'A licky boom-boom down' means, like, I'll hit down the informer; I'll knock the informer out”-yet the music video's pantomimed gunshots suggest something more lethal.Oct 12, 2016
Yess
Informer
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 lookin' for you the other day
Word? Word! Bust it!
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me
Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me
Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
Police-a them-a they come and-a they blow down me door
One him come crawl through through my window
So they put me in the back of the car at the station
From that point on I reach my destination
Where the destination reached was the East Detention
Where they whipped down me pants and looked up me bottom
So Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me
Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me
Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down, so
Bigger are them think them have more power
Them on the phone me said that on hour
Me for want to use it once to call me lover
Lover who me gonna callin' on the one Tammy
And me love her me heart down to my belly
Yes me Daddy me Snow, me are the cool and deadly
The one MC Shan and the one that is
Snow
Together we are love'em as a tornado
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me
Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me
Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down, so
Listen for me ya better listen for me now
Listen for me ya better listen for me now
When me rock the microphone, me rock it steady
Yes sir
Daddy Snow me are the Article Don
When me in at a dance them say, "Where you come from?"
People them say I come from Jamaica
But me born and raised in the ghetto
That's all me man want you to know
Pure black people man that's all I man know
My shoes used to tear up and my toes used to show
Where me born is the one Toronto, so
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me
Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me
Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
Come with a nice young lady
Intelligent, yes she's gentle and irie
Everywhere me go me never left here at all
Yes, Daddy Snow me at the roam the dance man
Roam it in a dance in every nation
You'd never know, say Daddy me Snow
Me at the Boom Shakata
Me never lay down flat in one cardboard box
Yes, Daddy me
Snow I go reachin' out the top, so
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me
Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me
Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
Why would he?
Me sitting round cool with my dibby dibby girl
Police knock my door, lick up my pal
Rough me up and 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 'cause I'm hanging with the Snowman
What am I gonna do, I'm backed and I'm trapped
Slap me in my face, look all of my gap
They have no clues and they wanna get warmer
But Shan won't turn informer
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me
Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
Informer
You know say Daddy me Snow me, I go blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man says see Daddy me
Snow me stabbed someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down
I’ve known this song since the 90s being a Toronto girl & this is the first time I’ve ever known the lyrics!! Thank you!! ✌🏼 & 💓!!
Hahahaha snow .... It's informer in the days to now term snitch ...
Can you do EMF - unbelievable
Yes exactly
You got to remember when this was out, Shabba Ranks was big.
Two songs that I think you may enjoy
1. Toby Keith - Beer for my Horses
2. Sabaton - No Bullets Fly (Animated Story Video)
I know you had to have heard of The Commodores. But have to heard their song "ZOOM" It's worth the time to hear it.
He couldn't have released that today... Just imagine how many would get offended.
I dunno: they gave him the Vanilla Ice treatment for this LP, and he didn't really do a lot afterwards... Groovy a track as it is, he's kinda a one hit wonder for the appropriation..
For what? Sayin he'd ice a snitch? I don't keep up with this mumblecrap, but do rappers not rap about snitches getting stitches anymore? Or do you mean for the Jamaican patois? That's just how his hood raised him. Nothing to object to. No one jumped down Matisyahu's throat for invoking it as a Hassidic Jew.
Good one
Lol “A licky boom-boom dem” gets misheard a lot, he’s saying the snitch (informer) is an ass kisser to the cops. Love this song man, one of the many I grew up on. The story behind it is pretty nuts too.
Old person here 👋we didn't know wtf he was singin back in '93 either 😆Dope tho
Leaky Boom Boom down ( he goes ) no more informer.