One of the rap songs from the 1990s that played up the white angle to the song's detriment. Not a bad little tune and it deserved better than to be overshadowed by prissy disgust at the singer's being a white Canadian.

Informer got a lot of exposure on the air, and displayed the vocal talents of its singer. The song was about a man who is arrested for a crime he didn't commit, and he won't rat on the real culprit ("Snow won't turn informer!").
The song was done in a Jamaican rap, with a lot of words in broken English sprayed very quickly at the mic. The beat (probably by a drum machine) was catchy and unusual. The argot was surprising and fun. It was the first time I'd heard the word "Irie" used in a sentence.
But, because the singer was a tall, fit, white guy, that was the bone of contention of choice. There were complaints that Snow was aping the Jamaican culture, although it says in the song that he grew up with that culture in his Toronto neighborhood. Is it so terrible to adopt that which you grew up with? Or is it only OK if it's the main culture?
There were the inevitable comparisons to Vanilla Ice, another singer whose career did not take off because he was white. There was a great parody of the song on In Living Color, with Jim Carrey even breaking into Popeye the Sailor-style rapping to poke fun at the rapid-fire patter of Snow.

Both "Informer" and the parody "Imposter" are available on youtube.

The song is supposed to be autobiographical, but who knows what really happened. Rappers often lie and pretend to be more "street" than they are. I remember an interview with Snow - I believe one of the Marsalis family was interviewing him, for a "Night Tracks" type show. Snow was boasting that he did get arrested but he beat the rap. As he gloated over ostensibly getting one over on the Man, the interviewer just looked disgusted but politely did not point out the idiocy of that attitude.