Black Sheep - U Mean I'm Not (Hip Hop / Hiphop)

Black Sheep - U Mean I'm Not (Hip Hop / Hiphop)

Opening track to their 1991 album A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing.

Black Sheep member Dres about this track:
As so then going to the intro cut for A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, I think out of everything that I had learned, as far as my walk up to that point, was that number one, cats really aren't as gangsta as they would present themselves to be. I was just coming from a place where I saw it firsthand, where I had to walk it, where I had to live it. There was no "I'm just gonna do my time, don't bother me and I'm not gonna bother you." That doesn't even exist. So my hands were pretty dirty ....

And secondly, one of the real things that I saw in what was going on as far as Gangsta Rap at the time was that there was just no -- One of the terms of that day was "I ain't got no love for that." "No Love." "That don't get no love." And it kinda hurt me to understand that we're quick to look at each other and say "No love," and even do something to one another. [And] when I really got an opportunity, when I was forced to sit down and look at my life, and even the life of my people, I looked at it to the degree that we're so programmed and so taken out of the loop of who we really are that we could look at each other and instantly say "No love." They broke us up as tribes, so this gun that I'm pulling on you, or the gun that you're pulling on me, like we literally could be related. You literally could be a cousin, an uncle, a brother, a sister. They broke the basics: the mother, the father, the sister and the child. We were all sent in different directions. So, if we're not gonna have that kind of an understanding about each other, then we should understand that the person that we pulling this gun on, about to do something to, could literally be a mother, a father, a sister, a brother. So that was really an undertone of the skit. Yeah, I'm poking a little fun at everybody, but on a much deeper level is that we're so disenfranchised that we don't understand that we literally could be hurting someone that we're related to. So that's where my mom, my sister, and all of that came into play as far as "U Mean I'm Not." I really felt that would be making a huge statement that I'm not just hurting people that I don't know. I'm hurting people in my own house.

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A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing is the debut album from Native Tongues Posse affiliate Black Sheep.
The album became one of the most popular and acclaimed alternative hip hop albums of the 1990s.
Group members Mista Lawnge and Dres were praised for their humorous and creative content.
The album featured three major singles, "Flavor of the Month," "Strobelite Honey," and "The Choice Is Yours [Revisited]," the latter two both charting on the Billboard Hot 100.

The album was certified Gold by the RIAA.

In 1998, the album was selected as one of The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums.

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[slickrick1100]

I laugh everytime I hear this. "Yo!Who the fuck used my toothbrush?"

[lad420]

i havent heard this is SO long hahahah what a classic!

[Juan321C]

Gotta love the message. Dres was no joke!

[sithlord519]

maaaaa you broke the fuckin yoke

[smartalec88]

MMAAAAA U BROKE FUCKIN EGG YOLK!

[kowtpr187]

This is what ICP wants to be....

[ofal3]

this sounds like a bad PCP trip...haha

[MsL0vie]

hungry as fuck, said my grace.....lol!

[maxxpowers64]

WAITIN FOR THE MUTHAFUCKIN SCHOOL BUS!

[SomeoneNamedTom]

the mailman came so i cut his motha f***in THROAT! xD

[CRUSH3Rdlux]

hahahahaahahahaaahhah... KoRn did a great cover xD

[retardinthetardness]

lol xD