Jay-Z, DMX, Juvenile and The Lox Albums
Simon Reynolds, Uncut, May 2000
Huge over there, ignored over here – the state of the rap art, US-style:
Jay-Z: Volume 3...Life And Times Of S Carter; DMX: And Then There Was X; Juvenile: Tha G-Code; The Lox: We Are The Streets
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