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As unlikely as it may sound, this part of the song was once intended to be performed by Canadian novelty rapper Snow, best known for the 1992 hit Informer. He recorded it with Sum 41’s producer, manager and mentor Greig Nori, the frontman of Canadian indie/punk band Treble Charger. Just to bring some more Canadian legends into the mix, Fucked Up’s Ben Cook (also a friend of Sum 41, and the co-writer of We’re All To Blame from Chuck) described the original version, which he has heard, on the extraordinarily in-depth blink-182 fan podcast Blink-155.
“I've heard it, it's amazing," he said. “One of [Greig’s] early ideas was to mix pop-punk and reggae. The original version of In Too Deep is Snow on the verses going, [adopts Snow voice] 'Maybe I'm not trying too hard’. It's such a good song for what it is, so it doesn't matter who did it."
When Greig later started working with Sum 41, the chorus was put together with a song Deryck Whibley had written in high school, and punk-reggae’s loss was pop-punks’s gain.
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Drummer Steve Jocz isn’t in Sum 41 anymore. He now works in real estate in Palm Springs, California. He’s like a grown-up now.
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Guitarist Dave Baksh is wearing an Iron Maiden Trooper shirt. Respect.
1:08
Deryck Whibley has the same birthday as Gary Oldman, Matthew Broderick and Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Of note: Excellent Canadian maple leaf tie.
1:34
Steve has a plastic skull hanging from his drum kit. Fun!