You're watching the official 4K music video for Snow - "Informer" from the album '12 Inches of Snow'. "Informer" is sampled and Snow is featured in Daddy Yan...
I read an article on this once (from memory so dont quote me) but the guy grew up with a lot of Jamaican immigrants and their kids and picked up Jamaican Patois and the associated slang and street terms as a second language, he was also a rapper. Its been called cultural appropriation by some people… personally I think growing up with people of a different ethnicity and learning their language AND making art with it is a bit different but people will make their own judgements.
Its a mash up of english and that but Its not nonsense if you speak the language.
I read an article on this once (from memory so dont quote me) but the guy grew up with a lot of Jamaican immigrants and their kids and picked up Jamaican Patois and the associated slang and street terms as a second language, he was also a rapper. Its been called cultural appropriation by some people… personally I think growing up with people of a different ethnicity and learning their language AND making art with it is a bit different but people will make their own judgements.
Its a mash up of english and that but Its not nonsense if you speak the language.