Canadian reggae artist Snow wrote "Informer" after spending a year in a detention center on charges of attempted murder, which were later changed to charges of aggravated assault, according to Billboard. The song somehow spent weeks at No. 1 in the US, but Snow was never able to match that success.

Jim Carrey later parodied Snow on the sketch show "In Living Color" with lyrics including: "Impostor/I'm just a middle-class white guy from Toronto/Despite of how I sound."

Listen to the song here.