Legal Drug Money by The Lost Boyz

Lost Boyz: Mr. Cheeks, Freaky Tah, Pretty Lou, DJ Spigg Nice (vocals). Additional personnel: Big Dex (vocals); Mr. Sex (various instruments). Producers include: Mr. Cheeks, Pete Rock, Mr. Sex, Eazy Moe Bee, Big Dex. ). Engineers: Jamie Staub, Mr. Sex, Chris Barnett. The Lost Boyz's energetic music takes hip-hop back to the days when guns and drugs, although present in urban communities, had not yet invaded hip-hop itself. Before the gangsta revolution, hip-hop more often meant a danceable track, a party theme and a positive message. With LEGAL DRUG MONEY, the Lost Boyz attempt to bring these elements back to the mainstream. They're well aware of what's going on in the real world around them, but "being real" isn't their mantra. When violence does intrude, as in "Renee," a love-in-the-ghetto story that ends in murder, it serves as a detail rather than as a theme. And more typical is "Music Makes Me High," whose subject is the delirious effect that hip-hop has on the Lost Boyz. Legal Drug Money covers the ... Minimize