| Money, Power & Respect | |
|---|---|
| Album by | The LOX (rap group) |
| Released | January 13, 1998 |
| Recorded | 1997 |
| Genre/Style | East Coast hip-hop |
| Length | 67:21 |
| Label | Bad Boy |
| Producer(s) | Sean Combs (Executive), The L.O.X., The Hitmen, Dame Grease, Swizz Beatz, Richard Frierson, P.K., Jay Garfield, Rob Carter |
| Writer(s) | |
| Last album | |
| This album | Money, Power & Respect (The LOX album) |
| Next album | We Are the Streets (The LOX album) |
Money, Power & Respect is the debut album by hip hop group The LOX. It was released on January 13, 1998 through Bad Boy Records and featured production from The Hitmen, Dame Grease and Swizz Beatz. The album found huge success, peaking at #3 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and spawned two charting singles, "Money, Power & Respect" and "If You Think I'm Jiggy".
In 2008, the single "Money, Power & Respect was ranked number 53 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.
Rolling Stone (3/5/98, p.65) - 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...It's a hardcore hip-hop album leavened by the party principle....It's whatever-works hip-hop, carried off in the same spirit that Puffy resurrects David Bowie or the Police for their bad bass lines..."
Entertainment Weekly (2/13/98, p.70) - "...There's plenty of infectious, party-ready hooks on this debut, along with the same kind of hard-edged rhyming and lyrically vivid images Biggie found in the hood." - Rating: A-
The Source (3/98, p.187) - 3.5 Mics (out of 5) - "...From underdogs to favorites, from rags to riches, The Lox have finally done their part to prove that all the premature acclaim was justified..."
Rap Pages (4/98, p.116) - 3 (out of 5) - "...The buzz surrounding them promised to bridge the chasm between underground and the commercial equation Bad Boy has capitalized..."
Track listing[]
| # | Title | Length | Featured Artists | Producer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Yonkers Tale (Intro)" | 1:45 | The L.O.X. & Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie for The Hitmen | |
| 2 | "Livin' the Life" | 3:36 | Sean "Puffy" Combs & Richard "Younglord" Frierson for The Hitmen | |
| 3 | "If You Think I'm Jiggy" | 4:40 | Dame Grease | |
| 4 | "The Interview, Pt. 1" | 0:39 | The L.O.X. & Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie for the Hitmen, Co-produced by Richard "Younglord" Frierson for the Hitmen | |
| 5 | "Money, Power & Respect" | 4:35 | DMX & Lil' Kim | Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie & Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence for The Hitmen, Co-produced by Jay "Waxx" Garfield |
| 6 | "Get This $" | 3:58 | Puff Daddy | Sean "Puffy" Combs & Jeffery "J-Dub" Walker for The Hitmen, Scratches by Dj Iroc |
| 7 | "Let's Start Rap Over" | 4:28 | Carl Thomas | Dame Grease, Co-produced by Jeffery "J-Dub" Walker for The Hitmen |
| 8 | "Mad Rapper (Interlude)" | 1:15 | The L.O.X. & Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie for the Hitmen, Co-produced by Richard "Younglord" Frierson for the Hitmen | |
| 9 | "I Wanna Thank You" | 4:02 | Kelly Price | Nashiem Myrick for The Hitmen |
| 10 | "Goin' Be Some Shit" | 4:20 | Nashiem Myrick & Carlos "6 July" Broady for The Hitmen, Scratches by Dj Iroc | |
| 11 | "The Heist, Pt. 1" | 2:51 | Sean "Puffy" Combs for The Hitmen & Rob "Arsee" Carter | |
| 12 | "Not to Be Fucked With" | 4:23 | Sean "Puffy" Combs for The Hitmen & Dame Grease | |
| 13 | "The Set-Up (Interlude)" | 0:48 | The L.O.X. & Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie for the Hitmen, Co-produced by Richard "Younglord" Frierson for the Hitmen | |
| 14 | "Bitches from Eastwick" | 4:13 | Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie & Chucky Thompson for The Hitmen | |
| 15 | "Can't Stop, Won't Stop" | 3:38 | Puff Daddy | Sean "Puffy" Combs, Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie, & Steven "Stevie J" Jordan for The Hitmen |
| 16 | "All for the Love" | 3:33 | Swizz Beatz | |
| 17 | "So Right" | 3:30 | Kelly Price | Sean "Puffy" Combs & Ron "Amen-Ra" Lawrence for The Hitmen |
| 18 | "The Snitch (Interlude)" | 1:31 | The L.O.X. & Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie for the Hitmen, Co-produced by Richard "Younglord" Frierson for the Hitmen | |
| 19 | "Everybody Wanna Rat" | 4:17 | P.K., Co-produced by Dame Grease | |
| 20 | "The Interview, Pt. 2" | 0:14 | The L.O.X. & Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie for the Hitmen, Co-produced by Richard "Younglord" Frierson for the Hitmen | |
| 21 | "We'll Always Love Big Poppa" | 5:00 | Dame Grease |
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