Styles P: Mixing Music and Mischief

Styles P moves in circles with Judakiss and the rest of D-Block, including Sheek Louch. Before they were D-Block, the threesome from Yonkers were known as The Lox. "Lox" is actually an acronym that stands for "Living Off Experience." And it was the Lox name that got Styles P and his friends famous.

It was the Lox, after all, that got mixed with the Bad Boy crowd, with Biggie and P. Diddy. And it was with Bad Boy that Styles P and the Lox crew released the hit song that would really put their name in lights. That Lox and Styles P song was "Money, Power, Respect," off of the album with the same name. That was 1998.

But soon thereafter, Styles P got it into his mind that the group had to leave Bad Boy, and this eventually led them to Interscope and another Lox album, called "We are the Streets," in 2000. Around this time, Judakiss also released his first solo album, called "Kiss Tha Game Goodbye."

But What About Styles P?

Don't worry, Styles P got into the solo game as well. In 2002, he released the first solo Styles P album, called "The Life." One of the biggest hits of the year came off the record, a Styles P track called "Good Times," all about cannabis use.

Success came easier and easier for Styles P and Judakiss at this point in their career. They had hit singles, like the song "Some Niggas," and Styles P albums appeared underground as mix tapes, like the Internet sensation "Ghost Stories." Singles and mix tapes seems to be the way Styles P and Judakiss went through 2004 and 2005, with more "ghost" tapes surfacing like the Styles P mixes off of "Ghost in the Machine" and "Ghost in the Shell."

Judakiss and Styles P lyrics can also be heard from the 2005 remix of the Mariah Carey song "We Belong Together." Or how about the Styles P lyrics that made their way onto the Akon album in 2004, on the song called "Locked Up."

Styles P and Provocation

Besides all of his guest starring on other people's records and the Styles P albums of mixes, Styles P has also gotten noticed for his controversies. In 2001, he and Judakiss picked a fight with nearly every rapper in the city of Philadelphia, after he said that hip hop artists there were copying Judakiss' style. Then they threw in beefs with not only Beanie Siegel and crew, but Jay-Z and anybody at Roc-A-Fella.

Styles P and Judakiss are also known to hold a grudge for 50 Cent, and the feeling is surely mutual. Part of the problem is that supposedly Judakiss was on a Ja Rule album, and we all know how 50 Cent and Ja Rule get along, right? It doesn't help that Styles P mix tapes usually contain veiled if not open disses on 50 Cent, though rumor has it that Styles P and 50 Cent have made up.

In the meantime, Styles P has tried to pursue a musical career, with two studio Styles P albums, the 2006 "Time is Money" and the 2007 "Super Gangster, Extraordinary Gentleman."

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