Sheek Louch, one third of The Lox, has returned to the rap game (Although with his normal bombarding of the mixtapes you'd never think he left!) with a new album After Taxes and a new distributor Koch for his label D-Block.   Louch's first solo effort Walk Witt Me was an slept on banger and let people know that he was more than a complementary piece to any team! Now he's trying to make some bigger money on a smaller label where he gets more money per CD sold after taxes!

This album is 19 tracks with little drop off. It starts with the "Street Music" and then hits you with "On The Road Again".   Jadakiss joins Sheek in "Pain" and Sheek even goes "grown and sexy" on "One Name" featuring former Bad Boy cohort Carl Thomas.   "Maybe If I Sing" comes at the whole G-Unit crew and of course 50 Cent specifically and the "Kiss You're A** Goodbye (remix)" is monkey food (a.k.a. bananas) with Fabolous, T.I. and Beanie Sigel coming thru to drop lyrical weight on people's heads! Beanie comes at his old State Property family, T.I. has to state why he's the "King of the South" and Fabolous comes husky as well.

Other hot tracks include "All Fed Up", a track about women, cheating and children, "Get Up Stand Up" featuring Redman, and "Movie N*****" featuring Ghostface Killah!

I'll give the album 4 Globes. If you like the gritty sound and want to get some tough talk from a 10 year vet in the game this is a good listen.   Hard beats with little gimmick courtesy of Havoc, Rockwilder, Supa Mario, Vinny Idol, Red Spyda, Cocoa Chanelle, DJ Twinz, Alchemist and Mr. Devine help the cause also!

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