They fill you in on “What Else You Need To Know”. This is a skit with press and photographers asking the group about various beefs and have they been quashed. The verses are suitably grave, the last slowed and low before the backdrop fades out the track.ĭon’t ask the trio “Stupid Questions”. Opening track, “Omen”, starts like a swirling church choir, interspersed with sirens indicating nuclear meltdown.
Jadakiss and Styles P appearing in the latter.īetween now and Money, Power & Respect they signed to Ruff Ryders Entertainment in 1999, and released this year’s effort on their own label, D-Block Records, through Jay Z’s very own music empire, Roc Nation. Maybe an even wider audience was reached with Jennifer Lopez cameo, “Jenny From The Block”. They gained sizeable exposure with their apt tribute to late rapper, The Notorious B.I.G, “We’ll Always Love Big Poppa”. This is said to stand for Living Off eXperience. Puffy, however, insisted that this be shortened to The Lox. They actually started as The Bomb Squad, perhaps a nod to the Public Enemy production team, eventually changing their name to The Warlocks. The trio, made up of Jadakiss, Styles P and Sheek Louch, signed to Bad Boy Records in 1995 after their CEO, Sean Puff Daddy Combs, was passed their demo by an admirer of theirs, a fellow Yonkers resident who happened to be a certain Mary J. It comes sixteen years after sophomore effort, 2000’s We Are The Streets and eighteen years after platinum debut, 1998’s Money, Power & Respect. Filthy America…It’s Beautiful is the third studio album by Yonkers, New York rap group, The Lox, released Friday, December 16.
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