Why Dont The Internets Acknowledge The CLASSIC "We Are The Streets" By THE LOX??

[Ripp]

people focus too much on the badboy drama and it gets over looked..... I used love this album as a kid and if you throw it on in a room full of real nikkas they can recite over 50% of the album word for word... hood classic it is.... OP you shouldn't really worry about the internet opinion... they wasn't there..

lox spit real shyt that nikkas could relate to in between all the gun bars. they also had the grimey/flashy effect "you know lox come through in a yellow lex/hop out wearing airforce ones with the yellow checks" but also "wear the same clothes a week in a row"and "sleep on the floor next to the dog"..

styles/jada especially had some deep bars inbetween all the gangsta shyt. I fukk with this album. pure ignorant hood shyt but they also let you know they were still human

 

[Ripp]

hold on...
"I pray to Allah, but im too foul to go to the mosque/if it's beef ima murder you and know that it' squashed"

 

[Ripp]

nikkas got quotables in every song on this album.. nearly every verse... got me listening to the album now

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

The Lox don't have a definitive work. Neither album is a classic. It's what I was getting at with my initial posts in this thread: If WATS was a classic album like you're claiming it is, The Internets would not matter. It would be something that couldn't be rewritten and you wouldn't get the amount of people saying it isn't classic (even people who like the album) in this thread.

Regardless, Harlem World is still his definitive album.

I think youre missing the point of the thread.

youre definitely missing the basis of the mase comment by a mile.

and again, how are those albums considered the definitive work for those artists, but WATS isn't the definitive LOX LP?? the only difference is that WATS doesn't have much of a media/internet stamp. other than that......

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

It's not a worthless observation because you're still placing importance on the Internet, but then want to talk about the streets. Like I stated before, The Internets shouldn't even matter in that regard. If it really was a classic, there would've been no need to talk about this album based on what the Internet thinks. Either you care why The Internets acknowledge it as a classic or you don't care. Now, if you really were out here in these streets like you claim, you wouldn't be whining about why the Internets don't acknowledge WATS as a classic. It wouldn't matter.

lol @ the bolded. NO IM NOT.

and what are you even rambling about at this point?

I think the premise of this entire thread is going over your head, lil buddy.
either that, or youre off your meds.​

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Nobody outside of NY cares about this album and to call this a classic, is ridiculous.

I'm not from NY.

and youre taking the thread backwards with this nonsense. please leave.​

 

[JustCKing]

I think youre missing the point of the thread.

youre definitely missing the basis of the mase comment by a mile.

and again, how are those albums considered the definitive work for those artists, but WATS isn't the definitive LOX LP?? the only difference is that WATS doesn't have much of a media/internet stamp. other than that......

Definitive albums are albums that are nearly uncontested as that artist's best work.

Again, the media/internet stamp is irrelevant if you're attempting to make this argument from a street perspective. The Lox's definitive, most legendary record is from their debut ("Money, Power, Respect")

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

people focus too much on the badboy drama and it gets over looked..... I used love this album as a kid and if you throw it on in a room full of real nikkas they can recite over 50% of the album word for word... hood classic it is.... OP you shouldn't really worry about the internet opinion... they wasn't there..

lox spit real shyt that nikkas could relate to in between all the gun bars. they also had the grimey/flashy effect "you know lox come through in a yellow lex/hop out wearing airforce ones with the yellow checks" but also "wear the same clothes a week in a row"and "sleep on the floor next to the dog"..

styles/jada especially had some deep bars inbetween all the gangsta shyt. I fukk with this album. pure ignorant hood shyt but they also let you know they were still human

great post

especially the bolded.

prolly the best post in this thread.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Definitive albums are albums that are nearly uncontested as that artist's best work.

Again, the media/internet stamp is irrelevant if you're attempting to make this argument from a street perspective. The Lox's definitive, most legendary record is from their debut ("Money, Power, Respect")

LOL @ the bolded.

I'm gonna take the advice of homie I just quoted above.

you weren't there.

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

never really thought of it as a classic tbh
dope album tho

 

[JustCKing]

LOL @ the bolded.

I'm gonna take the advice of homie I just quoted above.

you weren't there.

Nothing on WATS is "Money, Power, Respect" status. That song added to X's hype and possibly saved The Lox's career.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Nothing on WATS is "Money, Power, Respect" status. That song added to X's hype and possibly saved The Lox's career.

clearly, I'm talking about albums.

you always try to switch the narrative on the slick, and it never works out for you.

WHOMP WHOMP.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

Nothing on WATS is "Money, Power, Respect" status. That song added to X's hype and possibly saved The Lox's career.

and if MPR their best album like you claim, why would they need that one song to save their careers??

 

[JustCKing]

and if MPR their best album like you claim, why would they need that one song to save their careers??

"If You Think I'm Jiggy" nearly killed it. Reasonable Doubt is considered Jay's best album, but even that had "Ain't No nikka".

 

[JustCKing]

And for the record there's really no point in arguing about MPR. Its not a definitive album either. Again, The Lox don't have one. They dropped two good efforts at best. Never listened to the new material they dropped.