Black Sheep - "Flavor Of The Month"

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VH-1 Classic played this on the Request Hour this morning and I'd forgotten exactly how brilliant it is. I'd also forgotten that as much As I love this song, "The Choice Is Yours" remix stomps it into the ground.

Join me in praising this oft-overlooked duo (or tell me why I'm completely overrating them).

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 22 November 2004 14:39 (8 years ago) Permalink

Engine engine number nine,
On the New York transit line,
If my train goes off the track,
Pick it up! Pick it up! PICK IT UP!

― DJ Salinger (joni), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:06 (8 years ago) Permalink

also love the track where he kicks the shit out of his family: "I dreamt I was hard"

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

"U Mean I'm Not"! Yes, total classic.

That first album has some ridiculously amazing things on it.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

HELL YEAH

― B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

"Flavor Of The Month" gave me the giggles as a kid. I haven't heard it since. Dres from the group has a nice track on the new Handsome Boy Modeling School album.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 22 November 2004 15:38 (8 years ago) Permalink

Flavor of the Month was great, probably the best flows on the album, if not the best track. The Strobelite Honey video was dope too, with a track much better than the album version.
Black Sheep played a gig about a month ago in L.A., btw. Of course, I had to hear about it from a Dres interview on Pacifica radio so they've got a ways to go before they claw their way out of threads like this.

― tremendoid, Monday, 22 November 2004 16:24 (8 years ago) Permalink

Wssn't this the first rap record to sample Sergio Mendez's Brazil'77 - or was it Herb Alpert? Still... Black Sheep were all over 1991 with this. I recall this and KMD's first were my favourite De La-derived-style albums of this period.

― herbalizer12 (herbalizer12), Monday, 22 November 2004 17:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

this album was pretty damn accurate in alot of ways
-LASM skit
-Choice is Yours intro skit
-Strobelite Honeys
-U Mean I'm Not?!

black sheep to de la is like buddy love to professor klumpf

― naturalaw-dp, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing is a masterpiece. Even the Chi Ali guest verse is great.

― Chuckling at the Tomkat's Marquee (Ben Boyer), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 21:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

black sheep to de la is like buddy love to professor klumpf

GENIUS

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 22:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

I just dl-ed a bunch of black sheep off soulseek the other day. Brilliant stuff. Strobelite honey.......

― molly, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 22:23 (8 years ago) Permalink

the best of the second-string Native Tongues bands. (Fu-Schnickens anyone?)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 22:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing is one of the best albums ever. I think I listened to it more than any other rap album except The Chronic.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 22:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

http://blacksheeponline.com/

New album coming soon, sounds as crappy as their second album...

― PeterALopez, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 11:47 (8 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

just adding to the love for "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing." Spencer otm - even the skits are good.

― eman (eman), Monday, 14 March 2005 07:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

and you can't beat that with a bat

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 14 March 2005 07:38 (8 years ago) Permalink

im putting together a late 80's - 90's rap comp. this will be on it.

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Monday, 14 March 2005 13:20 (8 years ago) Permalink

i know you wanna, you know you wanna.... gimme the fingaaaaa

― eman (eman), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:31 (8 years ago) Permalink

points for sampling Jefferson Airplane.

also, chris, if you want some help with that comp S/D: Semi-forgotten early-mid 90s rappers

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Monday, 14 March 2005 17:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

"YO WHO THE F*CK USED MY TOOTHBRUSH!"

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

also that song that's just a medley of "fuck you"s is genius.

― eman (eman), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:32 (8 years ago) Permalink

4 years pass...

not many black sheep threads on here

im feeling this new dres single

― ice cr?m hand job (deej), Saturday, 21 November 2009 23:33 (3 years ago) Permalink

Good video. Good sneakers!

― billstevejim, Sunday, 22 November 2009 17:32 (3 years ago) Permalink

back on the scene, crispy and cream

― samosa gibreel, Sunday, 22 November 2009 19:01 (3 years ago) Permalink

I'm sure I'm not the only whose reminded of Krispy Kreme every time that line comes up.. which is also funny because being reminded of donuts is way Simpsons.

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 04:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

who's

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 04:51 (3 years ago) Permalink

google says it's actually "crispy and clean" so i guess i know what's been on my mind lately

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 25 November 2009 05:54 (3 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

Black Sheep KIA ad disturbed my wife something awful... I mean okay they sold a song to KIA, no big deal, but were the CGI dancing hamsters really necessary

― in my day we had to walk 10 miles in the snow for VU bootleg (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 June 2010 19:36 (2 years ago) Permalink

stern email a holla imo

― golden jackals of hissboola (tremendoid), Monday, 21 June 2010 20:51 (2 years ago) Permalink

btw yes, those hamsters are very, very necessary (esp the part where they are driving down the street in a toaster)

― HI DERE, Monday, 21 June 2010 20:54 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

this is a really good interview. eye-opening as they say. and so many good quotable lines. from last year, but i'll bet you missed it.

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/interviews/id.1790/title.timeless-dres-revisits-black-sheeps-a-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing

― scott seward, Monday, 13 August 2012 15:12 (9 months ago) Permalink

That's an amazing interview Scott. Thanks!

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 13 August 2012 16:18 (9 months ago) Permalink

man I like this album more now than I did back in the day (used to skip to the singles)

― Swayne O'Pie (DJP), Monday, 13 August 2012 16:18 (9 months ago) Permalink

"Similak Child" is my jam. Album version though, if you please.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 13 August 2012 16:20 (9 months ago) Permalink

yeah great piece thx for the link

― the choogler and the chosen one (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 August 2012 17:14 (9 months ago) Permalink

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