The number one song 15 years ago was...

"Informer" by Snow

Yes, really.

According to this website

http://www.joshhosler.biz/NumberOneInHistory/SelectMonth.htm

which allows you to view the #1 Billboard song for any date and year, the number one song from March 7th to April 24th (7 weeks!) in 1993 was this:
"Informer"


I'd love to rip this to shreds, but it's late and (obviously) I can't sing it myself so there must be some difficulty to it. I wonder what ever happened to this guy? I don't know, but a white guy who reggae raps while wearing eyeglasses and calling himself "Snow" probably had a rough patch here or there.

The lyrics of this song have been a point of debate for a while. For example, this is supposedly the hook (courtesy of WikiLyrics):

informer
you no say daddy me snow im gonna blame
a licky boom boom down
detective man said daddy snow i stabbed someone down the lane
a licky boom boom down

Despite how senseless the "a licky boom boom down" is, I'll take issue with something that lyrics sites seem to universally agree with: the word "blame". But does he really say blame? At the 3:35 mark of the video, he almost certainly seems to be saying "I go blam" and making a gun motion, no?

So does anyone really know what he's saying? Maybe he's the only one who knows. And we can rip on him as much as we rip on "Ice Ice Baby", but he has the last laugh. He knows all the REAL lyrics. And he had a number one song for 7 weeks. Dammit.

Here's a mildly clever In Living Color parody of the video (with Jim Carrey and Tommy Davidson):


A licky boom boom down.

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