Video: Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours

I really miss the sounds from my high school days. Those years of music have become my referential point by which all music I listen to now is judged against.

It's a gift and curse to be on this list. Yes, it's every artist's dream to create something that not only reaches millions of ears but puts some money in their pockets as well. But when you're only known for that one blip on the radar, the future is out of your hands and left for fate to deal with. Some go on to become laughingstocks while others watch their contribution go on to become historic. And the select few collect massive royalties to pay their bills with. The criteria for this list [...]

So continuing on the Native Tongues series, we have Black Sheep who I first heard in my later years of high school through a an older more musically savvy friend. I slept on it for a little while, then one day in a record store and P's to spend I saw 'A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing' at a bargain price so I copped it and from then on much love for that. I remember walkin away feeling quite smug about my crafty purchase (sometimes I'm a cheapskate). Anyways usual drill so lets get down to it. The group [...]

Black Sheep ~ " The Choice is Yours " Click here to view the embedded video. Hard to believe that you can get with this, 'cuz this is where its at even 20 years later. Samples The New Birth ~ " Keep on Doin' It " Click here to view the embedded video. Iron [...]

Hip hop has been plagued with duality since its birth. Whatever one artist comes up with, another will attempt the same, and then the opposite. There have been conflicts between black and white, east coast and west coast, producer and mc, commercial and underground. Currently hip hop’s largest dividing factor is the new DIY approach to making and releasing music versus the traditional studio and commercial approach. As hip hop suffers from the illness of duality, there have been several death scares. More than a few rappers have claimed hip hop to be dead , [...]

Few hip-hop songs rival the mass-anthemic appeal of Black Sheep's "The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)." A tweaked incarnation of an album track on M.C. Dres and producer Mista Lawnge's 1991 debut A ... Continue reading "The Choice Is His: Black Sheep's Dres Picks The Five Best Bar Mitzvah/Sweet 16-Rocking Hip-Hop Classics Of All Time" >

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