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Snow Makes Return With Reggae Collab

Source: www.iriefm.net

SnowAfter more than a 15-year hiatus, Snow returns to the dancehall arena with the single Shame.

Produced by Florida-based Kent Jones and Cool & Dre, Shame was done with former Black Uhuru singer Mykal Rose.

‘Snow’ who hit the number one spot on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1992 with the hit ‘Informer’, tells Music News that he has now gotten the green light to move around freely after being deported from a few countries.

Earlier this week, the producers shot a video for ‘Shame’ in downtown Miami, Florida.

Snow says Shame is the first single from a work-in-progress EP. He was unable to give details of a release date.

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It`s Snow-ing Again

Source: www.jamaicaobserver.com

If he has any anxiety as to how fickle dancehall fans will react to his new album, singjay Snow was not letting on when Splash caught up with him recently. The 32 year-old was more concerned about the sub-zero conditions he was chilling in in his native Ontario than the response to Two Hands Clapping, his comeback set.

‘Man, it’s freezing up here,’ said Snow during a phone link-up. Canada’s best-known dancehall export was in Kingston in November soaking up Jamaica’s more hospitable climes and dancehall vibe, but has been back in Maple Leaf land promoting Two Hands Clapping, which is being distributed in Canada, Japan and Europe by EMI/Virgin.

It is Snow’s first album since the little heard-of Mind On The Moon which was also distributed by Virgin. More significantly, it is five years since the release of Justuss, his third and final album for the Elektra Records affiliate, East West Records; that’s a long time to be away from the dancehall where trends change as quickly as the genre’s latest fashions.

Yet, Snow is not concerned. ‘I left on my own, it wasn’t like, ‘he’s no good no more’,’ he said. ‘I’m here still, working with the right people. It’s going to be easy.’

It hasn’t been easy on the personal front for the lanky Darren O’Brien (Snow’s given name) in the past three years. He says during that period he wallowed in drunkenness and was in and out of Toronto courts answering to a variety of charges that stemmed from his alcoholism.

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Snow Melting Away From Gangsta Talk On New Disc

Source: Lenny Stoute, www.thestar.com

Snow, he walks the walk to back up his talk. But as Canada’s foremost gangsta rapper, his is the kind of walk that can land a body in jail.

Which has already happened to the singer a number of times. It seems like every time something big happens with the 25-year-old rapper’s career, it’s paralelled by a brush with the law.

Snow spent yesterday afternoon holding court at the King Edward Hotel to promote his new album, Murder Love. In the morning, he was held in court to answer a charge of uttering death threats. This could be serious; he’s already barred from entering the U.S. and another conviction probably won’t help. Or it could go the way Snow hopes; a guilty plea and a fine. But the case wasn’t dealt with yesterday and has been held over.

“The real drag is that the incident is old news; you can hear on the new album that I’m moving away from gangsta talk. Now this charge comes up and it’s like I’m doing this now.

“The incident happened after an AIDS benefit, when me and some people went back to the hotel. Basically, I got into a shouting match and as you know, you get mad, you’re just yelling, blowing off steam. I guess I was just in the wrong place and things got blown up.

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Musical Forecast : Look For Snow

Source: Patricia Meschino, www.reggaereport.com

One of the most satisfying cuts on Canadian DJ Snow’s new release, Murder Love, is a tale of his love affair with Reggae music called “Dream.” Here Snow reminisces about his days in Toronto’s Allenbury housing project, where he first became acquainted with Reggae through the friendships formed with the many Jamaicans who had moved into his area: .. ‘Listen Shabba Ranks playing faintly from the speaker/I would eat mi curry chicken, that’s my favorite supper/If you think mi joke or lie, gwaan ask me mother/I would living on the island sweet, sweet Jamaica/Fish with Coco Tea down in the river/Hanging at the ghetto with me boy they call Ninja/No, but it’s only a dream.’

“Dream” goes on to describe imagined evenings spent at Kingston’s Godfather’s nightclub and sessions with the Stone Love sound system. If the song had more verses, it might have depicted other ambitions of the aspiring DJ, like performing at Jam World for Reggae Sunsplash and ripping up the crowd at Topline and other crucial Kingston dance hall sessions. Yet, something Snow could never have imagined was that his first album for Motor Jam/EastWest Records, 12 Inches of Snow (released in 1993), would go platinum and the first single from the album, “Informer,” would top the Billboard Pop Charts for seven weeks!

“When I did that album, it was just for fun,” Snow recalls. “I wasn’t thinking this album’s gonna blow up. I didn’t really think nothing of it, I just loved doing it. When it did blow up, I was like, ‘Are you sure?’ Now, I look on my wall and I see these plaques and I think, ‘Yeah, they’re sure.'”

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