Lox new album coming soon

By: Yves Erwin Salomon

The LOX, which is made up of Jadakiss, Styles P, and Sheek Louch, have been busy recording a new album. The group may change the title of the album, which was initially Live, Suffer, Celebrate, because the new material is moving in another direction. Styles P told MTV.com, "The LOX joint is coming out soon. We working every day. We got some fire! We saw Dame Grease for tracks, 'bout to get up with Swizz Beatz, a couple of young boys. We're picking fire beats. We got a bunch of crazy stuff."

Styles is also working on a new solo album, Five Star General, which will be his first independent release. The rapper explained, "It feels good to have your life in your own hands. My career has been in other people's hands for so long, now it finally feels great to be on my own. I'm good, I made a fair deal. I'm not locked into anything long-term. But I like Koch. I know the dudes there, I like the workers. That's somewhere I wanted to be. I like their integrity, I like how they work, they know the music."

The Lox were signed to Bad Boy Entertainment in 1996 by Sean "Diddy" Combs. The group released their platinum debut album, Money, Power, & Respect, in 1998, and they wrote several hits for Combs, including his biggest, "All About The Benjamins."

The group fell out with Combs in 1999 and the Lox's production company, Ruff Ryders, paid Combs approximately $3 million to buy out their contract. The Lox subsequently released a gold album, We Are The Streets, on Interscope Records in 2000.