Styles P has announced he’s retiring as a solo artist, but not before he gives his fans two more albums.
The LOX veteran took to Instagram with a lengthy farewell dedicated to his devoted fans, and said he’s merely stepping away from the microphone so he can be more “spiritually healthy.”
“I believe I have run myself down a tad bit over the past few years,” he wrote. “Being a super hard working emcee and a health advocate. For one, I’m not really that great at multi tasking it’s actually my drive that keeps me going and that slack falls back on my family, business partners and co workers. I thought about it harder and came to the conclusion that I need to walk away from my solo career period ( I think I gave y’all enough ).”
Styles continued by noting he still plans on working with his LOX brethren Jadakiss and Sheek Louch, but that aside from a feature here and there his solo output will soon cease. He added that he’s on several “important boards” that he’ll dedicate more of his time to, and additionally said he’ll be stepping away from his juice company Juices For Life.
“Of course you will see me In the spots and of course I’m going to keep pushing the movement when it comes to health,” he added. “I just gotta go figure a better way to do it and not harm myself mentally nor inconvenience others anymore. As far as any juices for life business goes I will plug you with one of my partners and the job will get done! The people need their health. Never forget, the message is always bigger than the messenger!!! So if you know the way, spread it . That is all that counts!!”
He added in the IG post itself that he still plans to release “two more solo projects,” but wouldn’t offer any more details surrounding them.
The last solo outing Styles P dropped was Ghosting in 2021, but he also linked with Havoc that same year for their joint effort Wreckage Manor. Styles solo career is almost as prolific as his work with The LOX, and in August he celebrated the 20th anniversary of his hit solo record “Good Times” with a special concert in his hometown of New York City.
On August 18, Styles took over New York’s Irving Plaza with Jadakiss and Sheek Louch for a one-of-a-kind celebration for the song. Havoc, Smoke DZA, Nems, Statik Selektah and many others were all in attendance to perform at the massive concert.
“Good Times” was released on August 11, 2002 and debuted at No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the first single off Styles P’s debut album A Gangster and a Gentleman and was a radio success, notably appearing on the Soul Plane soundtrack.
Jadakiss and Styles recently stopped by Mariah Carey’s Global Citizen Festival performance to deliver the trio’s “We Belong Together” remix.
The two New York MC’s were welcomed onstage by Carey, who ushered them on by singing the opening hook for the “We Belong Together” revamp acapella, which appears on the 2005 Ultra Platinum edition of The Emancipation of Mimi.
This marked the first time the three artists had performed the remix together since December 31, 2005, when Mariah and both MC’s performed it on a Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve special.
HE PUT OUT MAD SOLOS. NOT EVEN MAD AT THIS.
He’s got like 13 albums
Styles P in my personal top 5 along with Biggie and AZ.
Biggie being my personal favourite rap artist ever.
What does he have to do with anything?
I just forgot to add that to my previous comment. No fuss about it.
I just forgot to add that to my previous comment.
Styles P hands down one of my all time favorite MCs. Jada always gets more love and I don’t wanna put them against each other, I like both, but Styles has a crazy catalog by now. It might not always be AOTY material but I have yet to hear a bad project by him
But if he wants to retire why does he drop two albums? Get the f’ outta hiphop and count your money. I can’t understand how do managers think these retirement announcements are good ideas. Literally no one retired from hiphop. Not even rappers with life sentence. Styles is not retired, he’s retarded.
First off people do retire from hip hop solo careers but not all stay retired . Jay z
Stfu bitch
With all it’s highs and lows Bad Boy Entertainment had a good run during the Golden Era; from Biggie to Black Rob to The Lox and everyone else on the label. The rap game would’ve missed out greatly without it. To this day “Victory” is my most favourite Biggie track, even though he just featured on it. Those last bars from Biggie soon before he passed away. Straight fire!!!
Bad Boy did not even exist during the golden era. Learn your history
Last time I checked the 1990’s formed part of the Golden Era. Chill out.
Golden era ended 93, Bad Boy was founded in 93 so what pretty good run in that era are we talking about. Just sayin
There are disagreements about when exactly the Golden Era ended. I understand it as til the end of the 1990’s. If I’m wrong then I stand corrected.
Oh shut up. Rappers and their so called retirements….
Usually, I’m questioning retirement announcements by rappers since hardly any ever do, but I somewhat believe Styles. If you look at his discography, it’s quite a lot actually.
i’m not really interested in hearing any more records from these guys over the same generic beats they all use. it’s either that or some rich kid white producer that pays them to rap over mediocre alchemist style beats. it’s only so far you can take a music career without musical talent. a guy like styles is better off getting into some sort of writing or tv production work if he wants to stay creative
And that’s why taste is personal. You may listen for beats, other people listen for words. Styles is and will be lyrically talented, the beats are just a conduit.
that’s a joke to me. nuff respect to styles p but your comment can’t be taken seriously. this is why rap music is pretty much dead. without musical talent you have nothing. styles p a great emcee but rap is music and the game was built on tunes. but what’s the point of arguing. they want a whole new rap game with no black producers no funk just a bunch of psycho killer nonsense if it’s darkskin “artist” if they light skin they allow a little more lyrics. big fkn joke world fkn wide
Stfu bitch