Black Sheep (Cakes da Killa album)

Black Sheep marks the second collaboration between Cakes da Killa and producer and composer Samuel Katz. Other contributions include Dawn Richard, Wuhryns Dumas and Stout.^[1] The record sees the duo at their "most comfortable and confident" with Cakes writing all the lyrics and Katz handling the production.^[2] It serves as an hommage to the club life and "cloistered spaces" of Manhattan and Brooklyn as an "artful synthesis" of "audacious" rap and "club-ready" production.^[3] The title Black Sheep is a reference to the feeling that the queer rapper has never "landed comfortably" in a specific scene.^[4]

Black Sheep is preceded by two singles: "Mind Reader" on January 24, 2024,^[5] and "Do Dat Baby" with Dawn Richard on February 23.^[6]