to Live” and Puffy’s “It’s All About the Benjamins” as well as collaborating with fellow Yonkers rapper DMX on “Ni**az Done Started Something” and “Blackout.” Q: What are pure sales A: Pure sales are purchases of the album (iTunes, Amazon, physicals, etc) Q: What are track equivalent sales A: Track equivalent sales (or TEA/Track Equivalent Albums) is a term used to describe the sale of music downloads or singles. Blige passed their demo to Puff who signed The LOX to his Bad Boy Records.ĭuring the late ’90s, the Yonkers trio were all over high-profile Bad Boy records like Biggie’s “Last Day,” Mase’s “24 Hrs. A: Its sorted by the total first-week sales.
Blige, a fellow Yonkers native who had made it big with her hip hop soul sound. One of these demos managed to find their way to Mary J. Jadakiss | WHO?MAGįollowing their debut appearance, the trio continued to grind it out in their Yonkers hometown, appeared on DJ mixtapes and pushing their demos. We sat with the beat for like 30 minutes and laid the song.
They had the beat and we went to Long Island somewhere in the studio. But before we did the deal, we did the song with them. We were like teenagers, but it didn’t work out. Jadakiss: We were going to sign with Main Source. and talking about getting jiggy, they made their first recording appearance on Main Source’s 1994 album, Fuck What You Think.Ĭredited as The Dog Pack, Jadakiss and Sheek Louch (Styles P was missing) set it off for The LOX when they dropped their trademark gritty verses and raw, street flow on the track. Way before The LOX were trading rhymes with The Notorious B.I.G.