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Styles began rapping with Jadakiss and Sheek in 1994, as they all grew up in the same Yonkers, New York neighborhood. They eventually found themselves signed to Bad Boy Records, and recorded songs with Notorious B.I.G. and Puff Daddy. In 1998, The Lox released Money, Power And Respect. Soon thereafter, Styles P lead the Lox on the now infamous quest to leave Bad Boy Records. After that wish was granted, the Lox signed to Ruff Ryders. Then came another Lox album and Jadakiss' solo album.

Finally Styles released A Gangster & A Gentleman, his debut solo album. The album contained the somber "My Life", featuring Pharaoh Monch, and "Good Times" which was one of the most played songs of the year 2002.

In 2003, Styles P and Jadakiss appeared on the "Oz Soundtrack" with one of the harder edged songs "Some Niggas" about prison life. On a mixed album with several songs about the lifestyle behind bars, "Some Niggas" was one of the fiercest and most remembered songs on the street from that album.

In 2005 Styles got some hometime airplay with his and Jadakiss' remix of Mariah Carey's mega-hit "We Belong Together".

He also featured with the hip hop violinist Miri Ben Ari's song:We gon win.

Current
D-Block is now also in a battle with 50 Cent and G-Unit and Styles is a main aggressor. He stated in one song "You was talkin' 'bout yo self when you made Wanksta, Nigga" and "The 'hood hate your shit but you hot in the south, it's the Crackers who buy your album, what the plottin' about." This beef caused the two groups not to be present at the same location during the VMA awards in the fall of 2005.

The streets are patiently awaiting Styles P's oft delayed second solo album, Time Is Money, the lead single for which was "I'm Black" featuring Floetry. Unfortunately the single was barely supported by radio or Interscope due to its "controversial" content with lyrics such as "I'm Black/but my skin is real light/That means my ancestors were raped by someone white."

The album has had its release date modified on more than one occasion: original release dates in the spring of 2005 were missed and scheduled releases within the summer months were similarly revised. Just recently, the album was "pushed back" (delayed) yet again, from an October to (purportedly) a November date. Although the earlier delays may have been attributable to the lack of mainstream reception for the album's original lead single "I'm Black", little is known as to why this pattern of delay has continued into the Fall of 2005, so many months after its initially promised delivery.

In early November, several sites on the internet began reporting that the tensions within Interscope -- specifically, as they relate to the embattled group -- had reached a new level of divisiveness. It was mentioned that 'Time is Money' had been completed for "years", with the intimation being that the delays in release had been a result of inner-politics; quite possibly involving the LOX group's ongoing feud with 50 Cent, presumably aggravated by 50 Cent's increasing aggregation of influence at the label. In his song I Run New York, 50 Cent made reference to this;

"[Jadakiss] keep runnin' his yap like I'mma take all that // One more word out his mouth I'll push Styles' shit back".
Within the same group of information, mention was made of a conciliatory offer by Interscope to release "Time is Money" in the month of November. However, it was claimed by the "camp" that the offer was refused for want of any significant pre-release publicity which normally accompanies (and helps to sell) the an artist's new album.

Although not stated explicitly, it would seem that a logical conclusion of this information is that, yet again, Styles P's "Time is Money" will fail to meet a slated release date. More generally, it would seem that, as of November 2005, there is a growing likelihood that the album will fail to ever be publicly released, raising the concern of Styles' multitudes of fans within the larger Hip-Hop community.

  A Gangster & A Gentleman (2002) (Gold)
Time is Money (upcoming - album status uncertain as of 11/05)