New York rap trio the Lox, once touted as hip-hop's hardcore representatives on Sean "Puffy" Combs' Bad Boy Records label, have finally defected from Puffy's world to join the Ruff Ryders crew associated with fellow Yonkers native DMX.
The members of the Lox, who've appeared on a number of Ruff Ryders records, had long been vocal about their desire to leave Bad Boy; when the Ruff Ryders acts turned up at a New York radio summer jam concert in June, they were all wearing t-shirts bearing the message, "Let The Lox Go." MTV News' Chris Connelly met up with Puffy in Los Angeles last week, and he asked the Lox's former label boss about the situation. "The Lox situation, it's just didn't work out," Puffy replied to Connelly. The trio will now (presumably) sign with Interscope Records, the company that distributes the various Ruff Ryders projects.-Andrea Duncan
