Styles P spoke with Vlad TV and says he can relate to Lil Wayne wanting to leave Cash Money.
“I know how it feels to be on a label and want to get off a label and not be there,” Styles P says.
In December, Lil Wayne made waves when he Tweeted that he wanted off Cash Money Records.
The New Orleans rapper has been with the label for his whole career and has built a strong relationship with Cash Money CEO Bryan “Baby” Williams, who has acted like a father figure to Wayne.
“I’ve been in them situations,” Styles P continues, “so I know for a fact that you, me or anyone else doesn’t know all of the details. You could just go off of what you, what’s pretty much in front of your face. But that don’t mean you get to see what’s in the locker room.”
The Lox, made up of Styles P, Jadakiss and Sheek Louch, released its debut album, Money, Power & Respect, under Diddy’s Bad Boy label.
The trio became unhappy with the Bad Boy deal and joined Ruff Ryders (under Interscope) to release the follow-up, We Are the Streets. After a quiet decade, Sheek revealed that the group was also discontent with Interscope. The group released The Trinity under its D-Block label in 2013. The next year, Jadakiss and Styles P described The LOX as free agents.
In 2000, Lil Wayne, a member of the Hot Boys, and Styles P, with The LOX, toured together on the Ruff Ryders Cash Money Tour. Styles P says he feels for Lil Wayne.
“Him and Baby, whatever they differences is, are, pardon me, I hope they’re able to work it out,” he says. “But I also know how it feels as an artist to be uncomfortable and wish him nothing but the best and comfortability and I hope he finds his way to do what he needs to do.”
When asked if he believes that Puff Daddy made his career when the Bad Boy owner signed The LOX, Styles P has a quick response.
“Hell, no I don’t believe that,” he says.
He appreciates what Diddy did by giving the group its big break, but he compares himself and the other LOX members to Michael Jordan’s natural talent.
“We always compared Bad Boy to the Bulls, but Michael Jordan’s still Michael Jordan,” he says. “Him being with Phil [Jackson] and the Bulls definitely helped him, but he’s still Michael Jordan. Me, ‘Kiss and Sheek, we’ve got bars like no matter what, you can’t take that from us. That’s what we do. I would feel like that if maybe we would have died and we wouldn’t have lasted after our discrepancy, but he definitely helped us bring us to a different plateau. To this day, there’s shit that I still use that I’ve learned from Puff, so definitely it helps. I think as a person, as an artist, you gotta always have that belief in yourself first and foremost.”
Watch the interview with VladTV below.
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Vlad always trynna start some beef between artist or get one to say something about the other smdh thankfully Styles aint fall for it
styles speaks that realness on everything from hip hop to street shit to jail to being a father. That’s why he my fav MC not just cause he got a dope catalogue of classic’s and so many mixtapes most ppl don’t even know about he a humble nigga that always got time for ppl and raps for the people that aint got shit out there struggling. Most other rappers are fucking assholes telling you u aint shit cause you aint got the chains n Bentleys they got smh fuck-boys
styles speaks that realness on everything from hip hop to street shit to jail to being a father. That’s why he my fav MC not just cause he got a dope catalogue of classic’s and so many mixtapes most ppl don’t even know about he a humble nigga that always got time for ppl and raps for the people that aint got shit out there struggling. Most other rappers are fucking assholes telling you u aint shit cause you aint got the chains n Bentleys they got smh fuck-boys
styles the realest rapper around none of that flashing money chains acting like he better than you he make music for the streets hoods working class people just struggling day to day he a real humble nigga but if you fuck wit him he will hawk ya down or shoot you.Lot of people don’t even realize how many classic tracks he got you can go on youtube n just play random sp tracks all day ghost be top 5
I remember styles P and Jada being some of the best artistes in the 2000s’ But they can’t say they did much after their deal with badboy fell out.
Nigga is u high? They STILL 2 of da hottest in da game (then add Sheek, that’s 3)The best thing they did was get away from Badboy…. I think Lavender might b Puff commentin on this site…lol LOX hands down is da best group in da game, Real Recognize Real
Are you serious? You must not know too much about hip hop. The Lox as a group and as solo artists released a lot of heavy material. Check their catalogues dumb dumb
what a dumb fuck-boy just cause they aint put out an official lox album what u think they aint been working ? styles has put out like 5 solo albums and countless mixtapes/albums sheek put out 4 albums and so many mixtapes jadakiss 3 albums and bout 4 mixtapes they put out dozens of d-block projects and I cant even count the amount of freestyles and guest verses they done the last 15 years they got a deeper catalogue than almost any crew they never had beef wit each other loyalty over money that’s why LOX the realest and best hip hop crew ever they still as dope mc’s now as when they started. That Trinity 2 ep and Trinity 3 mixtape they just put out was fucking fire don’t talk on shit u aint got a clue bout
It angers me that you can really like Young Thug’s shit album but, down goes to downplay J Cole’s album. I was fine with the interview up until that point I sometime question what is consider quality music anymore.