I watched the three men that comprised The Lox work in unison for hours: sweating while remaining composed and present, controlling their breath in order to rap lyrics they had written fifteen, twenty years ago, intuitively knowing when a group member was running out of air and stepping up to rap a bar or provide an ad-lib. In truth, these were three men in their mid-forties. A trio of men that seemed to be in the middle of a 30 city tour run. Compared to Dipset, who basically played karaoke with their songs and, at times, could barely remember the words to even sing along, The Lox looked like a group that was in their prime. As the rounds went on I felt a bit nostalgic listening to both groups play hit record after hit record but it was something about Jadakiss, his delivery, his energy, his lazer focus that made the songs he was rapping sound better now then when they first came out.
“This shit ‘bout to be crazy, fellas.”īoth The Lox and Dipset competitively jabbed at each other until Jadakiss, The Lox’s undisputed lead man, told his DJ to cut the first beat on and started rapping to one of their classic, grimy tracks, appropriately titled, “Fuck You.” I sat there hyped over the energy that Jadakiss brought to the stage at Madison Square Garden. I poured myself a rye with some ginger ale on ice, punched in the Verzuz live stream on my laptop, and opened the group chat on my phone that included three of my closest boys.
#The lox and dipset tour series
I almost forgot it was the night that The Lox would be facing Dispet until one of my boys texted, “y’all got your baggy white tees and Tims on yet?” This battle was one of the most anticipated in Verzuz history––which is a webcast series created by music producers Swiss Beatz and Timbaland that pit two hip-hop artists in a 20-song round match––and we had been discussing it in the group chat for weeks.
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