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For those who may not know, Styles P is a member of the legendary rap trio – The Lox. He is known for working with DJ Green Lantern as well adverse and renoun group mates Jada Kiss and Sheek Louch. I respect Styles because of his down to earth, in your face model. He never sugar coats his message but he presents them in a metaphoric manner which is easy for an unbiased listener to understand exactly what he’s saying. In many ways his fan relate to his gritty message in a strange way. Like many of my previous songs, Styles music may be too explicit for radio but nearly everyone who has anything to do with trend setting has an SP the Ghost's mixtape in their music collection. His commercial albums are classics that did not sell platinum numbers but regardless of that they managed to earned plenty of respect from music critics across the globe.

In 2002 he stormed the stage with his well loved debut classic album ‘A Gangster and a Gentleman’ which spunned the hit single ‘Good Times’... The album title became a street slang as it went on to earn him a solo gold plaque. Four years later he returned with his second album ‘Time Is Money’ and in a year after that he was back with his third album entitled ‘Super Gangster Extraordinary Gentleman’.  Due to explicit contents dealing with street wars and life on the dark side of New York as a gangsta, his albums were shunned and did not recieve the kind of promotion they deserved. But the actual people in those same streets who could relate to those situations stated in his music went out and bought their copy of his CD or mixtape even when they were not given an equal shot on the world stage. That lead to a heavy saturation of his music on the streets in neighborhoods and project buildings across the world even as mainstream road blocks were instituted to muffle him.
                         
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But it’s not his albums alone that earned him all that admiration from hip hop fans. It’s also his mixtapes… his first mixtape was entitled ‘Ghost Stories’ which was received very favourably in the streets. Then he followed it up with ‘Ghost in a Shell’ which solidified his identify as a 'hood rich' legend. This previous Bad Boy Records artist who had been revered for his work on the platinum selling LOX album entitled ‘Money. Power and Respect’ became the next best thing to the Notorious BIG when he returned to the stage with yet another widely heard and received mixtape entitled ‘Ghost in the Machine’. This mixtape would become the ultimate soundtrack to the lives of many east coast O.Gs including myself. The LOX who followed their 'Money, Power and Respect' album with the commercially successful second album entitled ‘We Are The Streets’ are set to release a third highly anticipated album in 2010 which is believed to be entitled ‘New LOX order’. If you’re a real rap fan and you yearn for that edgy east coast rap that never goes stale, you might wonna take a look at the LOX and their transformation to D- Block and delve into the minds of each of their very unique and talented members (of the trio) and what they have had to offer music fans.