Renee – It was the second single from the album and one of the few LB songs I remember at the time. Mr. Sexxx sets up a high-quality mid-tempo bop, with which Mr. Cheeks casually tells the story of a young woman named Renee, whom he met on the subway, with whom he quickly fell in love and lost far too soon by force of arms. Cheeks` story (which he has told in several interviews is loosely based on a girl named Ebony from his neighborhood who was murdered) is quite anticlimactic, as it lets you know right after the first verse during the hook that Renee is going to die. Nevertheless, it makes listening fascinating. As Mr. Cheeks has explained repeatedly, the album`s title, Legal Drug Money, refers to the Lost Boyz`s quest to be paid legally, and slangin` highly addictive drug called music. The album produced five singles and peaked at number six on the Billboards Top 200 and number one on the Billboards Top R&B/Hip-Hop.
Legal Drug Money would also obtain LBs Gold certification after just two months of its release. Lifestyles of the Rich and Immodest – Mr. Cheeks uses it to share the stories of a few drug dealers along the way, Jack and Yvette. Each of the subjects receives a verse describing their deeds and exploits, before Mr. Cheeks uses the third verse to talk about his stent in the drug game and how he abandoned it to “speed up his style and cook with his pen.” Easy Mo Bee is also responsible for this instrumental and it works much better than the previous one, but could have shone brighter if a more talented presenter had rhymed on it. Keep It Real – You can add this to the endless list of overused hip-hop song titles with `Real.` Dex sums up a Barry White classic for Cheeks to talk about some of the evil acts he committed before he began his hunt for legal drug money: “Slingin` rocks and packin` glocks on the blocks, it`s early morning I`m selling jums from my Reeboks, tre`s, nicks and dimes, I write rhymes, but the ghetto times, They committed crimes on the cheeks. The rhymes and cheek flow sound sharper and more aggressive than normal and I like to mention, even if it was sloppy on his part, that he “smoked weed” in `96, only to say later that he “might not be there in `95.” At least try to make me believe that the song was written at the same time. Actually wrong. In fact, Ami remembers what made the album so unique. Lost Boyz had ca. 6-7 videos for albums Not a bad album it was a shame for Freaky Tah. Tim Westwood played a lot of the Lost Boyz on the rap show Radio 1 in the UK in the mid-90s.
Da Game – No more medium quality hood filler material. And can someone please tell me what this “field jacket” that obsessed Mr. Cheeks throughout the album is? The Lost Boyz was a four-piece band from Southside Jamaica Queens, New York, consisting of lead animator Mr. Cheeks, B-Mic and Hypeman, Freaky Tah (Rip), DJ Spigg Nice and Pretty Lou, whose role is in the band I`m still trying to determine. Cheeks, Tah and Lou met in Queens, and later met Spigg Nice in high school, where the four vibrated and quickly formed a band. Originally called Stay Fresh Crew, they would later choose Lost Boyz after discovering the 1987 vampire movie of the same name (but spelled The Lost Boys). LB`s did live shows and recorded demos, and one of those demos ended up in the hands of Uptown “Buttnaked” manager Tim Dawg (I don`t want to know how he got that alias), which led LB to sign a deal with Uptown where they released a few hit singles and eventually signed an album deal with Universal/Motown. It was there that they released their debut album Legal Drug Money.
And maybe I`ll have an answer to the question of the day: What did Pretty Lou do with the band? Lex, coups, jeeps lifestyle of the rich. Renee The Yearn Music Makes Me High (Remix) To calculate the total number of stars and the percentage distribution per star, we do not use a simple average. Instead, our system takes into account things like updating a review and whether the reviewer purchased the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to check for reliability. Get Up – Cheeks is in party mode here, spitting bars on chicks, getting high and kicking with the crew on a track produced by Mr. Sexxx built around a loop from a classic Stephanie Mills record. The more I do this blog, the more I realize how many times Gwen McCrae`s “Funky Sensation” has been sampled in hip-hop records over the years, as this song also borrows its iconic “Get up, clap your hands” from the hook.