Four years on from Filthy America...Its Beatiful, and mere months after Jadakiss Ignatius and Styles Ps Styles David: Ghost Your Enthusiasm, the LOX reconvene for their fourth proper album. While its neither quite as unified nor as strong as those solo projects that immediately preceded it, Living Off Xperience leaves no doubt that the MCs as a unit remain relevant. Theyre actually most in sync when they get a verse from Benny the Butcher and a hook from Westside Gunn on Think of the LOX, a bare-knuckled track with a tense Large Professor beat worthy of a psychological thriller. Bout Shit, with Sheek Louch and guest DMX on especially high alert, is as sharp and militant as anything the group recorded two decades earlier. ~ Andy Kellman

Rovi