The group came together as high school students and started to perform local shows, developing a following. They had celebrity followers in Mary J. Blige who was the person who passed on their demo tape to Sean Combs, who later signed them to his labels. This was when the band confirmed their name The L.O.X, which stands for Living Off Experience.
They broke through to the mainstream, featuring on the song “It’s All About the Benjamins” after “We’ll Always Love Big Poppa”. They would go on to feature on many pop successes such as “Honey” by Mariah Carey and “Jenny From The Block” by Jennifer Lopez. The group released their debut album “Money, Power & Respect” on January 13th 1998 which would go on to peak at number 3 on the Billboard 200 and number 1 on the Top R&B albums. The group’s following album “We Are the Streets”, released on January 25th 2000, managed to reach number 5 in the Billboard 200 and number 2 in the R&B chart. It was produced by Timbaland and produced the singles “Wild Out” and “Recognize”.
The band would go on a hiatus that would end with a collaborative album with Wu-Tang Clan, which was released on November 27th 2012. The album was entitled “Wu Block”. They embarked on a worldwide concert tour called The Trinity. On March 1st 2014, the group released a song called “New York” which was endorsed by Funkmaster Flex.
The Lox is a hip-hop group who hail from Yonkers, NY, who has been going for two decades. They have had such a fantastic career up until this point showcasing their hip-hop and rap as such an art form with so much conviction and feeling to their sets. They were in fact discovered by Mary J. Blige and signed to P. Diddy’s record label, Bad Boy Records.
To see them perform is just fantastic with the atmosphere being that of a party. Seeing them live solidifies and confirms their reputation as such a successful group with each song showcasing a certain conviction that simply works amongst these hip-hop hungry patrons. You just want to get up on stage and join in. Everyone in this place is dancing and singing along. They perform some of their most successful songs to date such as “Recognize” and “New York City”, in which, they boast where they are from with their fantastic charisma, commanding the room to wave their hands from front to back.