An Evening with Dres of Black Sheep Comes to the Wilmington Library on December 3

Wilmington is getting a rare free night with a true hip-hop original. An Evening with Dres of Black Sheep comes to the Wilmington Public Library’s Downtown Branch on Thursday, December 3, 2026, from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM — an interview, a live performance, and an audience meet and greet with one half of the legendary Queens duo Black Sheep. Doors open at 5:00 PM, admission is free, and seating is first come, first served.

Presented by The Wilmington Library, the night is built around conversation as much as music: Dres will share stories about his journey through hip-hop’s golden era, then take the stage to perform the records that made Black Sheep immortal. For a generation that grew up on “The Choice Is Yours,” hearing it live from the man who wrote it — in a free, up-close library setting — is the kind of night that doesn’t come around often.

And because it’s free and first come, first served, the move is simple: get there when the doors open at 5 and claim a seat.

The Details

• When: Thursday, December 3, 2026 — 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (doors open 5:00 PM)
• Where: Wilmington Public Library, Downtown Branch, 10 E. 10th Street, Wilmington, DE 19801
• Tickets: FREE — no tickets required; seating is first come, first served
• Organizer: The Wilmington Library

HISTORY

Black Sheep — Dres (Andres Titus) and producer/DJ Mista Lawnge (William McLean) — came out of Queens, New York as part of the Native Tongues collective alongside A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, and the Jungle Brothers, the crew that gave early-’90s hip-hop its jazzy, Afrocentric conscience. Their debut album, A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, arrived October 22, 1991 on Mercury Records — 35 years ago this fall — and it remains one of the funniest and sharpest records of the golden era.

The album’s breakthrough single, “Flavor of the Month,” hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot Rap Singles chart with its playful warning about fame that fades fast. But it was “The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)” that became the anthem — No. 1 on the Hot Rap Singles chart, No. 57 on the Hot 100, and later named one of VH1’s 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs. Built on a driving bassline and Dres’s laid-back, razor-sharp delivery, the hook — “You can get with this, or you can get with that” — has been shouted in clubs, sampled, and quoted for more than three decades.

Dres has carried that legacy ever since, touring the catalog and keeping the Native Tongues spirit alive. On December 3, Wilmington gets him up close — stories first, then the songs.

Watch Black Sheep’s classic “The Choice Is Yours (Revisited)” below, plus the debut single “Flavor of the Month”:

Source: allevents.in — https://allevents.in/wilmington/an-evening-with-dres-of-black-sheep/200031038428610