Black Sheep marks the second collaboration between Cakes da Killa and producer and composer Samuel Katz.

[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.