Track Listing
1. Intro
2. Yearn
3. Music Makes Me High
4. Jeeps Lex Coup Bimaz And Benz
5. Lifestyles Of The Rich And Shameless
6. Renee
7. All Right
8. Legal Drug Money
9. Get Up
10. Is This Da Part
11. Straight From Da Ghetto
12. Keep It Real
13. Channel Zero
14. Da Game
15. 123
16. Lifestyles Of The Rich And Shameless
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Universal Music | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
Lost Boyz: Mr. Cheeks, Freaky Tah, Pretty Lou, DJ Spigg Nice (vocals).Additional personnel: Big Dex (vocals); Mr. Sex (various instruments).Producers: Mr. Cheeks (track 1); Pete Rock (track 2); Mr. Sex (tracks 3, 6, 16); Eazy Moe Bee (tracks 4-5, 10); Big Dex (tracks 7-8, 13-14); Mr. Sex, DJ Clark Kent (track 9); Mr. Dex, "Buttnaked" Tim Dawg (track 11); Big Dex, Big L (track 12); Dwarf The Black Prince (track 15).Engineers: Jamie Staub (track 2); Mr. Sex, Chris Barnett (tracks 3, 16). Samples include "Funky Sensation" (as performed by Gwen McRae), "Bounce Rock Skate & Roll" (as performed by Vaughn Mason & Crew), "Playing Your Game, Baby" (as performed by Barry White) and "Jealousy" (as performed by Club Nouveau). Interpolations include "What You Gonna Do With My Lovin" (Stephanie Mills) and "You're The One I Need" (as performed by Barry White).The Lost Boyz's energetic music takes hip-hop back to the days when guns and drugs, although present in urban communities, had not yet invaded hip-hop itself. Before the gangsta revolution, hip-hop more often meant a danceable track, a party theme and a positive message. With LEGAL DRUG MONEY, the Lost Boyz attempt to bring these elements back to the mainstream. They're well aware of what's going on in the real world around them, but "being real" isn't their mantra. When violence does intrude, as in "Renee," a love-in-the-ghetto story that ends in murder, it serves as a detail rather than as a theme. And more typical is "Music Makes Me High," whose subject is the delirious effect that hip-hop has on the Lost Boyz.
Editorial Reviews
3.5 Mics - Dope - ...The Lost Boyz rock the style exhibited in their first two joints over most of the album....the crew flaunts their ghetto status like a boy scout badge...
The Source (06/01/1996)
7 (out of 10) - ...What distinguishes these pragmatic Lost Boyz...is their unique rap flow, and the way the overlapping voices are aligned with an accessible yet hard-edged music....heavy hip-hop that can sit comfortably in the mainstream...
NME (06/22/1996)
3.5 Mics - Dope - ...The Lost Boyz rock the style exhibited in their first two joints over most of the album....the crew flaunts their ghetto status like a boy scout badge...NME (6/22/96, p.56) - 7 (out of 10) - ...What distinguishes these pragmatic Lost Boyz...is their unique rap flow, and the way the overlapping voices are aligned with an accessible yet hard-edged music....heavy hip-hop that can sit comfortably in the mainstream...
The Source (06/01/1996)
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