Blog: Listening Post - Wired Blogs

Black Sheep's "The Choice is Yours" was one of hip-hop's great party tunes, dropping in 1991 in the full swing of the genre's Golden Age. Better yet, the tune was a tongue-twisting boast designed to offer listeners a choice between gangsta rap and more alternative fare. That included the Native Tongues Posse to which Black Sheep belonged, along with A Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers and founders De La Soul. But our era has knit politics and art together like few that came before. And so Black Sheep's Dres has remixed, refashioned and re-introduced the tune as [...]