Four years on from
Filthy America...It's Beatiful, and mere months after
Jadakiss'
Ignatius and
Styles P's Styles David: Ghost Your Enthusiasm,
the LOX reconvene for their fourth proper album. While it's 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. They're 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.