DRES DISCUSSES NATIVE TONGUE REUNION

Black Sheep’s Dres discusses why Native Tongues haven’t been able to reunite…..

The Native Tongues were an early 90s musical collective which included Queen Latifah, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Blacksheep, the Jungle Brothers, and Monie Love. The group is widely associated with their biggest collective hit, “Buddy,” from De la Soul’s debut album, Three Feet High And Rising. The members enjoyed varying members of success but by the late 90s, the crew had gone thier separate ways.

The demise of the collective was recently the subject of a feature in Vibe magazine but many fans are still holding on to the hope that one day the groups may reunite. Dres of Black Sheep explained what happened when he tried to put together a reunion tour. Dres said,

“And I’m definitely an advocate of us coming together. I had tried to situated a tour for us last year but we weren’t friends enough to go make that work. It’s bugged. We speaking on it and I’m man enough to speak on things honestly. To say that you know Native Tongue has some growing to do, you know what I’m sayin’? I’m not gonna say it’s never gonna happen you know God moves in mysterious ways. But why it’s so bugged to me is because we’re a group of groups that make these records about black empowerment, about unity, about things that we really want to see in our community. But we not man enough to do it ourselves.”

In related news, Black Sheep is no longer a duo as producer Mista Lawnge recently left the group. But they release an album digitally, 8WM: Novacane, last year. The album features guest appearances and production by Showbiz, Lord Finesse, Kwame, Dinky Bingham and Vitamin D.

The group’s biggest hit was “The Choice Is Yours,” from their 1991 debut album, A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing. The group released their second album, Non-Fiction, in 1994.