Sixteen years is a long time in real time – and nearly an eternity in rap years – but with age comes wisdom. They’re like those friends from high school you’re often too busy to see but when you find time to reunite, it’s like time never passed. Unlike many of the 90s’ greatest collectives, the LOX never really broke up – even when preoccupied by solo ventures, it was a given that at least one or two tracks would feature D-Block brethren. Since 2000’s We Are the Streets, Jadakiss, Styles P and Sheek Louch have dropped well over a dozen solo projects, a couple of group EPs, and countless memorable guest verses. It feels improbable because, in many ways, the LOX never really left us. Despite being one of the defining groups of the late 90s, the LOX only gave us two proper LPs – the most recent one being an improbable 16 years ago.
I’ve called 2016 the year of the comeback – the year where everyone from Maxwell and Tweet to A Tribe Called Quest and Frank Ocean jumped off the back of milk cartons and back into the studio.īut personally speaking, all those returns pale in comparison to the reunion of one of my all-time favorite groups, the LOX. Filthy America … It’s Beautiful (released December 16, 2016)
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