1999
Tag: The Lox
The Agreement ( song ) … The Lox ( featuring Dyce Payne )
2016
Omen ( song ) … The Lox
2016
audio review : Filthy America [ It’s Beautiful ] ( album ) … The Lox
This is the first Lox album since 2000. The Trininty set was EPs and a mixtape. Perhaps Filthy America should’ve been another one. The album, which would time in at a mere thirty-something minutes if not for two skip-worthy interludes, sounds more like a mixtape than the long-awaited follow-up to We Are The Streets. Ryde Or Die Bitch remains my favorite Lox song. Nothing here comes close, though The Agreement, which has a similar concept, is a notable highlight.
my rating : 3 of 5
2016
The Lox on The Breakfast Club
2016
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The Trinity : 3rd Sermon ( mixtape ) … The Lox
2014
All We Know ( song ) … The Lox
2014
Salute A G ( song ) … The Lox
2014
audio review : The Trinity ( EP ) … The Lox
The title represents the three Lox members, but they should’ve reinforced that concept by limiting this set, a four-song EP, to three songs. Faded is the only one with a decent chorus, thanks to singer Tyler Woods, so that’s a keeper, along with Love Me Or Leave Me Alone, which jacks an old school Brand Nubian joint.
my rating : 3 of 5
2013
The Trinity ( EP ) … The Lox
2013
Can’t Get Enough ( song ) … The Lox + Peter Jackson ( featuring Jay Vado )
2012
audio review : Wu Block ( album ) … Ghostface Killah + Sheek Louch
The title doesn’t really make sense. It’s a Wu-Tang Clan and D-Block (Lox) collaboration; Ghostface and Sheek are the prime members for this set; but the Wu Block moniker implies a Clan takeover. The title doesn’t linguistically represent both groups, in other words. It seems to favor Wu-Tang Clan over D-Block because the “Wu” is semantically equivalent to the “D”, not the “Block”. If you take out the “D”, it can be anybody’s “Block”, depending on whose name you put before it, just as it could be anybody’s “Clan”. If it were D Clan, the problem would go the opposite way.
Not that I’d expect either group to consider proper English. This is rap music for uneducated street thugs; the type of “niggas” who rob and shoot people when they aren’t selling drugs to them. The first song, as it goes, is a collection of Crack Spot Stories. It’s also one of the best because it’s one of the few that isn’t dampered by a tawdry hook. Stick-Up Kids, inspired by a tired Fat Boys catchphrase, and Been Robbed, which limits its verse space to just four bars, are particularly annoying. The only commendable chorus, in fact, is the one provided by guest singer Erykah Badu.
Sheek has become the best rapper of The Lox though. “My high school teachers, they said I wouldn’t be nothing; sitting on the bleachers,” he says, “Now I’m sitting in a Phantom, trying to figure-out the features.” Jadakiss and Styles provide guest verses for comparison’s sake. Other Clan members, and Cappadonna, are also featured. I would’ve liked to hear a verse from Rza, but Ghostface holds it down. He and Sheek Louch actually make a dynamic duo. When Method Man finishes their story about a shady “bitch” named Stella, he only distracts from their chemistry.
my rating : 3 of 5
2012