Overall, "We Are The Streets" wasn't really designed for crossover success, but it remains the Lox's most popular, highest selling, and most recent album as the Lox to date. The lone spot of a comedy in a street-serious album was the legendary "Rape'N U Records" skit, in which Kiss plays a shady record label mogul who signs the unassuming Jae Hood (then a mixtape prodigy) to a crappy record deal, illustrating the group's mistrust of the music biz after dealing with Diddy. Other than most of the Ruff Ryders family, guest appearances are slim and none, with Kasino contributing a quick and hot verse on "Can I Live." Timbo's infectious latin-tinged "Ryde or Die bitch" (or chick for radio) was their cut for the ladies, and who better than Double's R's first lady to lend her voice and swagger to the hook? Album starts at 88BPM, ends at 179BPM (+91), with tempos within the 73-179BPM range.
Stuttering Eve's usage of the word "Recognize" from "Ryde or Die" over his classic drums and bluesy piano riff, Preme gives the group a certified banger to give the game warning to recognize their gangsta as a group. This album has an average beat per minute of 114 BPM (slowest/fastest tempos: 73/179 BPM). The rest of the album is Lox posse cuts, including the street-approved bangers "Wild Out" and the Preme-produced "Recognize," which was a match made in Hip-Hop Heaven. Of course, he was able to put it all together on his stellar debut album, "Walk Witt Me" three years later. "Bring It On" was Sheek's solo cut, and it showed the potential he had back then. Jada's up next on "Blood Pressure." Kiss briefly addresses Diddy while flooring listeners with his signature raspy punch lines, including the bars that gave hip-hop's most notorious groupie her nickname ("Got a chick named Superhead, she give super head, just moved in the building, even gave the Super head.")
THE LOX WE ARE THE STREETS ALBUM CRACK
Styles gets first crack with "Felony Niggas," a slick-talking mafioso cut on which The Ghost spits about "business as usual" - drugs and guns. The tone is set with an opening intro of street-smart folks railing against the Lox for "selling out," followed up by the epic "Fuck You," in which each member shoots down anyone who said they wouldn't survive after Diddy gave them their walking papers.Įach member got at least one solo track to showcase their skills (predicting numerous solo albums from them all). Premier and Timbaland helped the Lox out with memorable cuts.
Killer Trackz contributed a banger in "Breath Easy," and D.J. Swizz Beats, was still using his highly-popular synth formula, the underrated P. ".Streets" was much different than the shiny-suit, pop-sample heavy sound of the Bad Boy Era.
THE LOX WE ARE THE STREETS ALBUM FREE
For close to two years in the late 1990s, the LOX angled for a release from Bad Boy Records to sign and record albums with their original management, Ruff Ryders Entertainment which formed its own label and instantly crafted a classic album in DMX's "It's Dark and Hell is Hot."Īfter an aggressive campaign waged in the streets, complete with "Let the Lox go" T-shirts, the trio of Sheek Louch, Styles P and Jadakiss were free to link up with their Double R family and in final week of January of 2000, they released their much-awaited second LP, "We are the streets."
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