15 years ago today (The LOX)

[DarkmanX]

Off-topic: Yo, what happened to time? I mean 2000 was 15 fukking years ago? Somebody wake me up. That shyt felt like yesterday. That shyt irks & makes me anxious as fukk feeling like im on the run and gotta catch time and do shyt in certain frames or its done with. Im serious. shyt is bugged out how fast time goes now IMO. Like even 2012 was 2 - almost 3 years ago, already!!

On Topic: Love the album. I think M, P & R is dope too and i love it but i do prefer the 2nd joint. Felt more organic to their style and who they were, since they were from Y.O., was around X and the Ruff Ryders cats but they grabbed what came (a deal), understandable. Pretty crazy that they stll havent dropped an album since tho. I believe LOX are cats that really got fukked up in the paperwork game. No shocker to many, but i do believe thats part of why they focused on alot of mixtapes. I heard some other production deals they signed to too since they really was around the business in the 90s somewhere as kids rapping basically. So there were a few other production deals they were signed to not related to Diddy or RR, so its fukked up.

 

['Lando]

No shocker to many, but i do believe thats part of why they focused on alot of mixtapes. I heard some other production deals they signed to too since they really was around the business in the 90s somewhere as kids rapping basically. So there were a few other production deals

what exactly is a "production deal", i been wondering about that lately

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

Off-topic: Yo, what happened to time? I mean 2000 was 15 fukking years ago? Somebody wake me up. That shyt felt like yesterday. That shyt irks & makes me anxious as fukk feeling like im on the run and gotta catch time and do shyt in certain frames or its done with. Im serious. shyt is bugged out how fast time goes now IMO. Like even 2012 was 2 - almost 3 years ago, already!!

On Topic: Love the album. I think M, P & R is dope too and i love it but i do prefer the 2nd joint. Felt more organic to their style and who they were, since they were from Y.O., was around X and the Ruff Ryders cats but they grabbed what came (a deal), understandable. Pretty crazy that they stll havent dropped an album since tho. I believe LOX are cats that really got fukked up in the paperwork game. No shocker to many, but i do believe thats part of why they focused on alot of mixtapes. I heard some other production deals they signed to too since they really was around the business in the 90s somewhere as kids rapping basically. So there were a few other production deals they were signed to not related to Diddy or RR, so its fukked up.

crazy they didnt blow once they went to RR,still can't believe they sold less.

 

[re'up]

Off-topic: Yo, what happened to time? I mean 2000 was 15 fukking years ago? Somebody wake me up. That shyt felt like yesterday. That shyt irks & makes me anxious as fukk feeling like im on the run and gotta catch time and do shyt in certain frames or its done with. Im serious. shyt is bugged out how fast time goes now IMO. Like even 2012 was 2 - almost 3 years ago, already!!

On Topic: Love the album. I think M, P & R is dope too and i love it but i do prefer the 2nd joint. Felt more organic to their style and who they were, since they were from Y.O., was around X and the Ruff Ryders cats but they grabbed what came (a deal), understandable. Pretty crazy that they stll havent dropped an album since tho. I believe LOX are cats that really got fukked up in the paperwork game. No shocker to many, but i do believe thats part of why they focused on alot of mixtapes. I heard some other production deals they signed to too since they really was around the business in the 90s somewhere as kids rapping basically. So there were a few other production deals they were signed to not related to Diddy or RR, so its fukked up.

Haha, I feel you on that first part, though I have become more accepting of the way time moves….You just have to move with it. I am 29, this was a pretty eventful album for me…I got into the Lox with 'No Way Out' and 'Harlem World', and I was just getting my feet wet in hip hop, buying 'The Source' and later XXL, I copped 'Money, Power Respect' at Wherehouse Music used for like 12 dollars. But, everyone was hype for 'We Are The Streets', after that RR. Vol. 1, everyone wanted the Lox RR debut. 'Wild Out' was a solid single, and was on Rap City all the time….I remember getting 'We Are The Streets' and going straight for the Jada solo…..They could do no wrong back then. 'fukk You', 'Recognize' 'Y'all fukked Up Now', 'Felony nikkas', raw street shyt….I was like 15 zoning out to all those tracks….Jada got the XXL quotable for his verse on 'fukk You', I used to walk around with my disc man too, on the way too school, 'whoever feel sorry at the funeral fukk THEM TOO'. 'Ryde Or Die bytch' was my track too…That got a lot of play…My friends older sister used to drive us to school, and we'd get to play all this kinda shyt….Jada really did give birth to a whole generation of rappers post 2000, the style he perfected on this was the blueprint for the mix tape game of those years. This was the Lox at their best, they haven't changed much over the years…but this was their most solid work. Who else used to harasss Sam Goody clerks for the 'album release' sheets, trying to find that Jada solo?

 

[DeuceCypherUno]

seriously, i can listen to this beat all fukkin day

 

[Wacky D]

crazy they didnt blow once they went to RR,still can't believe they sold less.

its not hard to believe.

more people had "we are the streets". they just didnt cop the retail.

MPR was more commercialized so of course it sold more retail units.

these are fine comparisons. bad boy is known and considered as being a rap/hip hop label regardless and despite that it maybe was fueled by r&b. murder inc, a rap label, also was fueled by r&b like you said, and death row also had r&b artists. youre further proving my point. the fact that these labels also had r&b artists shows that it doesnt matter at all and also the fact that these labels couldnt last because of being "taken down" also shows they dont have the same longevity.
youre arguing with an opinion breh. it doesnt matter if they were "c list and b list". thats your personal opinions. the fact (not opinion) that they sold platinum is proof of standing.

but people were, they were all saying how murder inc and these other labels were becoming "bigger/more popular than bad boy". however these labels couldnt last like bad boy could thus why i said bad boy had the longevity.

death row never released an r&b.

cmon son.

you can call it an opinion all you want, but what i said was pretty cut & dry. you basically said the same thing when you listed those rappers.

 

[Newzz]

Everybody showing love to Kiss (who's 1 of my top 5 DOA...shout out to my original Sohh name @Jadakiss4KONY), but Ima switch it up and show love to Styles P solo cut "Felony nikkas" on there. Straight street shyt and had me like at 16 years old when this album dropped. I copped it 1st day from Coconuts at Southgate in Maple (to my Cleveland brehs, yall should remember the spot)


"If The P want you dead, I ain't comin' wit nikkas,
Just a blunt and a tre pound, plenty of liquor,
So ya homies got something to pour,
That's that old school shyt, I ain't tryin' to put you under the floor"

"If I lie, may I die in the middle of the verse
My nikkas hustle from first to first
Twelve months in a year, Gun on your waist, Blunt in your ear
Pack in your sock, crate at the back of the block
With a feen watchin' for NARCS till the shyt get dark
We hop in the hoop ride, instead of the six
While you lookin' for a bytch, we lookin' for a brick
That we can cook by six and give the whole block a fix
Catch me OT gettin' sixty a shift"

"If your son ain't worth shyt...nikkas'll smother your daughter"

"nikkas die everyday from talking that dumb shyt... That where they from shyt
All that mean to me is you can't get your gun quick"


I still love that cut to this day

 

[Bizzle]

LOX heads, I just heard an SP lyric saying the dude Bucky from D Block is doing life... anyone know any details of what happened?

 

[Dirty D]

The Bad Boy album album was better overall but the standout cuts on this were generally better. So basically it wasn't as consistent.

Most underrated on MPR:

 

[Wacky D]

MPR was ALRIGHT.

nothing to write home about.

 

[bigbadbossup2012]

MPR was ALRIGHT.

nothing to write home about.

lol @ everybody shytting on WATS

 

[Dirty D]

Just played Fukk You for the first time in a long while, shyt is classic.

You got a gut feeling bout Sheek nicca? That means u shot!