The album 12 Inches of Snow also did well, with the second single, 'Girl I've Been Hurt,' becoming a hit. Two pioneers, two people pushing the cultures. Canadian rapper Snow scored one of 1993's biggest hits with his single 'The Informer.' His patois-laced song soared up the pop and R&B charts, even though only hardcore reggae listeners could understand it without a lyric translation sheet. I’ll 100% be on the song.’ So you have a Canadian and a Puerto Rican making Jamaican music. "You got to give honour to a classic in order to make a new version of it, and once I showed it to him, he said, ‘Wow, it’s amazing. “There’s talk of Snow going on tour with Daddy Yankee later this year," he reports, adding that "Darrin is in Toronto right now recording new material and I’m taking calls from all interested record companies before we make any new deals.”ĭaddy Yankee is equally enthralled with Darrin O'Brien aka Snow: "It was one of my favourite songs growing up, and to do this the right way I needed the guy to be on the record,” Yankee says of his new single. “The Daddy Yankee cover is blowing up worldwide,” Farberman enthuses, and he wants us all to be informed of this fact. Since then they have been working on sorting out legal encumbrances and devising a comeback, in part with a new Warner Chappell Music publishing deal, and in working with New Jersey-based Radikal Records and Roton Music in Rumania to release an “Informer” remix series. Speaking from LA, Farberman says he is too old to be managing new artists but fell in love with Snow’s vision and sound when the two met in 2017. The cover is part of a global strategy to reintroduce the Canadian reggae rapper on the charts by manager Paul Farberman, a Canadian lawyer who for long worked with Celine Dion's global management team. Billboard Hot 100 Chart, securing the #28 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 decade-end chart (1990-1999).ĭaddy Yankee’s amorous and rhythmic rendition (El Cartel Records/UMC) features the Canadian reggae rapper who also makes a cameo appearance in the video from a pay phone booth in Toronto. Listed as one of VH1’s Greatest Songs of the ’90s, “Informer” spent seven consecutive weeks at #1 on the U.S. Shan, Edmond Leary, Shawn and Terri Moltke, with Jeffrey Silva, “Informer” was the lead single from Snow’s debut 12 Inches of Snow album, which sold over 8M records worldwide and is certified RIAA Platinum in the US and CRIA Triple Platinum in Canada. 12 Inches of Snow' (1993119) - 5 'Murder Love' (1995221) 'Justuss' (1997114).