Snow certainly loves to sleep, most people are sitting down for dinner when he’s just waking up.

‘When you’re sleeping, that’s when the gods visit you,’ says the Toronto rapper/singer. ‘You’re only your true self when you’re dreaming. This (pointing at himself) is just a shell.’

On the eve of the release of his latest album ‘Two Hands Clapping’ last week, Snow, a.k.a. Darrin O’Brien, dreamt of playing and running with tornadoes.

Over the past week, he has been dragged from bed to promote the album, which he describes as ‘a nice mixture of reggae and funk and hip-hop.’

He doesn’t claim to be original — he admits to taking from many different kinds of music, but says he creates his own style with it. With eight producers named the album, including his 7-year-old daughter, Justuss, its no wonder his music is a mesh of different hip-hop and reggae flavours.

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