Grant says - "Pick your white boy rapper poison!"

[Valmore]

Yes... he's forced you between the two choices above, and one alternative. CHOOSE!

[Reptisaurus!]

I kinda like Informer.

Informer! You-Know-Say-Daddy-Me-Snow-Around-The-Way! A Licky Boom Boom Down!

(Or whatever.)

[Your Imaginary Pal]

I Chose Snow. You can hardly understand him anyway.
If you mean lsitening to it once, I can live with that.
If I had to recite it everyday for the rest of my life, I would still choose it over sliding down a pole of rusty razors and landing n a pool of iodine. But I'd have to think about it for a second or two.

[Royal]

Snow.

'Cause he kept with the rap game no matter how pathetic it looked.

[Patient Boy]

What does this have to do with Grant?

[Valmore]

What does this have to do with Grant?

It's my own way of giving the nod to Grant for inspiration to put this poll up.

[KenK]

Gotta go with Snow. Fellow Canadian. :D

[Dizzy D]

Have to go with Snow.

Unrelated tangent:
One of my favourite moments on Never Mind the Buzzcocks: the team has to identify what the hell Snow is actually singing after listening to the song. Meat Loaf pulls out his cellphone, calls Snow to ask him the lyrics. Mark grabs cellphone and tells Snow that "I'll kick your boom boom now if you don't hang up."

[GoGo Yubari]

Informer is braindead, but catchy. It gets my vote.

[Punchy]

Gotta go with Snow. At least he faded into obscurity instead of doing a Reality Makeover show like Vanilla.

[clayholio]

Snow, for the simple reason that his song hasn't been beaten to death quite like "Ice Ice Baby" has.

[Spastic Minnow]

It's actually amazing how quickly "Informer" rose in fame and crashed in flames. In '93 I got seriously sick and was in the hospital for two months. Before that I didn't listen to pop radio but was a relatively loyal watcher of MTV, not constant and mostly of late night "alternative" programs but I certainly would have been aware of any huge pop phenoms like Snow. During this time I can't remember hearing of him at all and never knew the song. When I got out, I was with friends and somehow they all got on the topic of how much they despised "Informer" and would basically destroy any radio playing the song instead of hearing the song one more time. I told them I hadn't heard it and they were shocked that even I could avoid it and told me I should continue to avoid it. So I vowed I would but figured that if it were so horribly popular I'd be subjected to it against my will pretty soon anyway. Amazingly this did not happen, I never saw the video on MTV, never heard the song on the few occasions I had a radio on a pop station and if Snow was ever mentioned on radio or on TV it was from DJ's/VJ's badmouthing it as old crap. Just two months from height of popularity to reviled trash, truly a great achievement. And you know what? I've STILL never heard the full song and I plan on keeping it that way.

For that reason and because I can't help laughing at the song I choose "Ice Ice Baby."

[Royal]

Gotta go with Snow. At least he faded into obscurity instead of doing a Reality Makeover show like Vanilla.

um....he didn't fade. He just went to bother his own kind.

Canadians.

[amphetamine]

Informer is braindead, but catchy. It gets my vote.

Too catchy. I'm going to have "a licky boom boom down" stuck in my head until I can get back home to my mp3s and dislodge it with some 3-chord guitar tunes in mass quantities.

I, for one, choose the razor blade slip-and-slide. Painful, yes, but the pain fades more quickly than that damned song will.

[monkeysweat]

Quite honestly, I don't understand the Snow hatred I see in the US. In the Caribbean, among actual reggae fans, Snow was actually quite popular and very much enjoyed. We even liked his follow-up hits which included collaborations with some big name reggae/dancehall performers.

..."A-licky-boom-boom" was always questionable, though.

[Punchy]

um....he didn't fade. He just went to bother his own kind.

Canadians.

I fail to see the difference.

HA!

[Royal]

Quite honestly, I don't understand the Snow hatred I see in the US. In the Caribbean, among actual reggae fans, Snow was actually quite popular and very much enjoyed. We even liked his follow-up hits which included collaborations with some big name reggae/dancehall performers.

..."A-licky-boom-boom" was always questionable, though.

What I think it was, is that...we we're ready for Dancehall yet. We were still on the West Coast/Gangsta vibe. The closest to Dancehall we had was Booty & that was making it's way out for New Jack Swing. So Dancehall was a bit too fast for people's taste.

Plus the hatred was already turned up for VI. Snow got caught in the crosshairs too. I don't like Snow, but c'mon. The guy is entitled to his own personal critic hatred.

[elheffe]

I don't think Grant really endorsed this thread.

[Sanagi]

I'll start listening to Ice Ice Baby, but before the lyrics start, jam my fingers in my ears and imagine I'm listening to Under Pressure.

[Grant]

I don't think Grant really endorsed this thread.

He most definately did not endorse this thread. Think Valmore wants to be my right hand man or something.

And I have to pick "Informer" that song is so lame it's almost cool.

And no Markie Mark mention?

Looks like Snow is more popular then the razor and iodine torture. He should put that on his next record.

[Valmore]

He most definately did not endorse this thread. Think Valmore wants to be my right hand man or something.

I want to go to Alderan with you, and learn the ways of the Jedi.

(Or, failing that, I want to go back to the Death Star and be Darth Valmore.)

And no Markie Mark mention?

I honestly can't remember any Marky Mark songs - they were that forgettable. Those two at least stuck in my mind.

[Grant]

I want to go to Alderan with you, and learn the ways of the Jedi.

(Or, failing that, I want to go back to the Death Star and be Darth Valmore.)

Tell you what you can hang out on Alderan while I run an errand on the Death Star.

"Tarkin pull that lever now!"

I honestly can't remember any Marky Mark songs - they were that forgettable. Those two at least stuck in my mind.

He had that one that sampled Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side"

[Patient Boy]

He had that one that sampled Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side"

A Tribe Called Quest sampled that too.

[Grant]

A Tribe Called Quest sampled that too.

That's okay though.