{"id":475,"date":"2014-07-24T17:17:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T17:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/?p=475"},"modified":"2015-03-07T17:38:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T17:38:18","slug":"snow-would-like-to-inform-you-he-is-voting-for-rob-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/snow-would-like-to-inform-you-he-is-voting-for-rob-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Would Like To Inform You He Is Voting For Rob Ford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/post-snow-rob-ford_250x240.jpg\" alt=\"Snow &amp; Rob Ford\" title=\"Snow &amp; Rob Ford\" width=\"250\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-477\" \/>A Canadian rapper whose biggest hit warns about the perils of talking to the police is apparently a big fan of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford.<\/p>\n<p>Snow \u2014 whose real name is Darrin O&#8217;Brien \u2014 caused a bit of a stir online Thursday after he showed up at City Hall to express his support for Ford.<\/p>\n<p>Snow is best known for the hit &#8220;Informer,&#8221; which was the top song on the American Billboard charts for seven straight weeks in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Though Snow served time behind bars for assault, he told The Globe And Mail&#8217;s Ann Hui that the mayor has been through more than him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You just gotta ease up on him,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Say let him run, because he is doing good. If he&#8217;s messing up and stuff, I\u2019d say &#8216;kick him out.&#8217; But I don&#8217;t know, I do feel he&#8217;s doing good so, I gotta support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At least two reporters recorded video of the 44-year-old Juno-winner spitting some rhymes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rob Ford talks better Jamaican than I do,&#8221; Snow rapped, a reference to the January incident in which the mayor was recorded ranting profanely in Jamaican patois in a Steak Queen restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>But Snow is not the first unusual Canadian celebrity to express his support for Toronto&#8217;s controversial mayor. In April, disgraced Canadian Olympian Ben Johnson and &#8220;Trailer Park Boys&#8221; actor Sam Tarasco both announced that they are part of the so-called &#8220;Ford Nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Toronto voters licky boom-boom down to the polls on Oct. 27.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian rapper whose biggest hit warns about the perils of talking to the police is apparently a big fan of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford. Snow \u2014 whose real name is Darrin O&#8217;Brien \u2014 caused a bit of a stir online Thursday after he showed up at City Hall to express his support for Ford. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[174,173,172,171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dsnow.co.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}