The LOX introduced themselves as some of hip-hop's heaviest hitters when they debuted in the mid-'90s. Consisting of Jadakiss, Styles P, and Sheek Louch, the three Yonkers spitters dropped razor sharp raps that infused vicious punchlines into insights about the drug game. Rolling with both Puff Daddy's Bad Boy family and DMX's Ruff Ryders crew, '98 debut album, Money, Power & Respect, established a formula of balancing gritty street anthems with rowdy club hits—a template they solidified with '00's defiant We Are the Streets.