This came out in 2000 – or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
First things first: This New York rap trio’s handle has nothing to do with bagels and cream cheese — it supposedly stands for Living Off Experience (yes, technically they should be LOE; you tell them).
Apparently, something about their experience working for former mentor Puff Daddy caused them to bolt for DMX’s Ruff Ryders camp. But it hasn’t made them radically alter the East Coast gangsta sound or idiosyncratic lyrical attack they debuted on 1998’s Money, Power & Respect. Sheek, Styles and Jada still like to lay down a simple, flowing groove, toss on a high-pitched keyboard line and then cut loose with a barrage of off-the-wall rhymes and hilarious braggadocio: They’re the only rappers I’ve heard who have dissed a rival for being “soft as puddin’ ” and threatened to “smack some nuns.” Among the legions of soundalike rappers out there, LOX have a flavour all their own.