★★★★★
They're baaaaaack! Styles P, Jadakiss and Sheek Louch return to the group name that made them in the first place. There's no Ruff Ryders features or D-Block affilates here, the only guests are of the singing variety from Tyler Woods and Dyce Payne. There's even an early 2000s feel to the production that sounds like it came straight off of Styles P's "Gangster and a Gentleman" album. It thumps, and with Sheek's cocky demeanour all over "Talk About It", I can confirm that this is a return to form...
- rapreviews.com
2014-01-07
★★★★★
Formerly a Bad Boy Entertainment act, Lox return as part of the Ruff Ryders collective which last year spawned the hugely successful female MC Eve and took her debut album to the top of the US Billboard chart. It's typical smoked-out cruisin' music with all the familiar traits that go along with that brand of hip-hop...
- uk.launch.yahoo.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
In 1998, the Yonkers trio of Jadakiss, Styles P, and SheekLouch...collectively known as The LOX released their debut album. With manyhigh profile appearances, including the tribute song to The NotoriousB.I.G., "We'll Always Love Big Poppa", and the machine that was Bay BoyEntertainment behind them, "Money, Power & Respect" managed to land at#3 on the Billboard 200 chart and achieved gold status within months of itsrelease...
- rapreviews.com
2009-08-29
★★★★★
"It was around 1997, The LOX was the sound of the streets. It felt like there was a Bad Boy on every corner back then." Nostalgia comes included with "Money, Power & Respect," whose intro "Yonkers Tale" (mimicking the opening sequence of 'A Bronx Tale') already sets a historic stage for a rap album that was then brand new...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
As a statement of principle, the title track is scary-good and creatively derivative; put into practice it's scary-stupid and oppressively ordinary. How do we get MPR? By play-acting bully-boy scenarios that sound petty enough to be from life and making up others we'd never have the guts for--one production number climaxes with, eek, a hand grenade...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
When MC Hammer went gangster in 1994 with The Funky Headhunter, his contrived conversion to the thug life didn't fool anyone, and his sales were never the same. Whether you're mainstream pop or abrasive hardcore, switch-hitting in hip-hop can land your credibility in some serious shit. With We Are the Streets, the Lox abandon the shiny suits of their former Bad Boy Entertainment home for the butch ghetto grime of the Ruff Ryders...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
As Bad Boy's only hardcore act following the death of The Notorious B.I.G., Lox had a lot to live up to when it released its hotly anticipated Money, Power & Respect in 1998. But despite the best efforts of Puff Daddy and his minions, the group never seemed comfortable inhabiting the flossy, ultra-commercial Bad Boy universe, a fact no amount of Rod Stewart samples could conceal...
- www.avclub.com
2009-03-21