Songfacts®:

• A strobelite honey is a girl who looks good in the club under low light, but a closer look reveals she's a bowser. In the song, Black Sheep's rapper, Dres, makes the mistake of putting the moves on one of these strobelite honeys without doing his due diligence. By the time he get a good look at her, he's already made is play, and he can't get away from her. He tries every excuse he can think of (gotta meet my friend, I'm double parked...) but he can't get rid of her. The song ends with him making a run for it while she tries to keep him around, telling him, "Don't go!"
• This was the follow-up to Black Sheep's classic "The Choice Is Yours." The duo (Dres and beatmaker Mista Lawnge) were a late addition to the Native Tongues collective, which also includes A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul. Dres and Mista Lawnge went to school together in North Carolina but didn't team up until years later when they both landed in New York City. Their debut album, A Wolf In Sheep's Clothing, made a big impact when it was released in 1991, but they took their time putting another together, and by the time it was issued in 1994, the hip-hop landscape had shifted and it stiffed. They parted ways soon after.
• The song is built on samples from two very danceable tunes from 1980: "Take Your Time (Do It Right)" by The S.O.S. Band and "I Like What You're Doing To Me" by Young & Company. It also includes bits of "Rockin' Big Guitar" by Vaughan Mason (1981) and "Do The Do" by Kurtis Blow.
• The music video, directed by Kevin Bray, plays out the story of the song, with Dres putting the moves on a girl who ends up looking like Sheneneh from Martin.