Word: ragamuffins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This white Canadian ragamuffin's blazing debut album, Twelve Inches of Snow, fuses Jamaican dance hall and American hip-hop into the irresistibly slick mix many other musicians have been aiming for. SNOW'S groove-heavy beats and scatlike raps are burning up the charts from Kingston to New York to Toronto. Darrin O'Brien, who would rather be known by his ghetto moniker, Snow, is an alumnus of Toronto's housing projects and the Ontario penal system. Rap elitists who remember Vanilla Ice may doubt Snow's street credentials. But they need only listen to Snow...
...were a ragamuffin band," Harvard Coach Albert Myer says, "and we were up against this formidable, organized team...with a coach, an assistant coach, uniforms, eight or nine players and managers...