Styles P - s/d

not much talk about him on ILX. anyway, what to search and to destroy?

imo search green ghost project and Time is Money. love his gritty, true to life lyrics, and his commanding flow. plus he has chosen good producers for his solo joints.

ghost sessions is classic imo

^^^

um, also S: the lox obv

and getting the obvi classics out of the way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6TrQzNTrRA

yea honestly I have the Lox albums on order and only just got the first one in the mail today so haven't been able to listen yet. though I've heard the guests they've done with Jay-Z/Biggie/etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_8lb-9JQUk

search: styles

destroy: p

the life & i get high were big when i was in college

ghost sessions was in my top ten the year it dropped. idk hes one of those dudes who's almost always classic but released some inconsistent major label records

I'm all about this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRzrewrE7QU

Super Gangster (Extraordinary Gentleman) is my favorite

don't have that one. feel free to ysi a track though. i'll all about that!

ghost sessions is classic imo

― dj plain ole m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, January 20, 2011 5:25 PM Bookmark

Black student association unanimously declared

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzKVWMQbLCc

as our official song

*at my college

great rapper, never gets enough props, was hoping "B.M.F." would raise his profile a little but it really didn't, did it?

i'll try to get into specific tracks later but here's how i would rank his official-ish albums:
1. A Gangster And A Gentleman
2. The Green Ghost Project
3. Super Gangster (Extraordinary Gentleman)
4. The Ghost Sessions
5. Time Is Money

ghost sessions would be higher but the rock remixes kinda drag down its consistency and really they're all worthwhile imo

i just skip the rock remixes -- that album non-rock remixes is way way better than green ghost imo

my ranking's somewhat arbitrary because again there's not a dud in the bunch. but A Gangster And A Gentleman is definitely tops, kinda slept on record and hits a nice between-Blueprint-and-GRODT sweet spot in NYC rap.

have a feeling my amazon prime account is gonna get good usage from this thread

"Burn One Down" is also awesome

here's something I can't figure out -- did The Lox ever rename themselves D-Block, or is that just their record label? I swore I remember in the late 00s looking them up and seeing wikipedia had renamed their article "D-Block", but now it's a separate article about the label only.

ghost sessions would be higher but the rock remixes kinda drag down its consistency and really they're all worthwhile imo

― some dude, Thursday, January 20, 2011 7:48 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha i totally blocked those out

styles p's verse on "Fuck You" is pretty inspired (I am listening right now!)

yeah i mean those are like the bonus tracks on "The B. Coming" imo -- simply dont exist

lol I skip the bonus tracks on at least half the rap albums I own. except for like albums like Nicki Minaj Pink Friday where they're half of the good songs :/

max b feat. styles p & mel matrix - hawaii 5-0

styles p & akon - can u believe it

the charles manson dialogue in "no remorse" is so chilling

Styles P & Sheek Louch - 914

the lox - chest 2 chest

lil kim & styles p - get in touch with us

"If I lie, may I die in the middle of the verse"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-N33BS0btM

here's something I can't figure out -- did The Lox ever rename themselves D-Block, or is that just their record label? I swore I remember in the late 00s looking them up and seeing wikipedia had renamed their article "D-Block", but now it's a separate article about the label only.

― i love tampon spaceship (San Te), Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:02 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark

it is kinda funny how they've done little to distinguish D-Block as a distinct brand from The Lox -- for years the only apparently artist on D-Block outside of the 3 of them was Jae Hood, then he defected, and they've got a bunch of little random 3rd string D-Block artists like Bully and Team Arliss who do most of the rapping on the D-Block projects. they've has been threatening to sign with Def Jam or whoever for a new Lox album for years, my theory is that whenever they feel like doing a group project but don't have a major label ready to put it out they just call it D-Block.

I now have all of Styles P's solo albums, and think they're all really solid. love his lyrics, street level but he pulls out some really cool turns of phrase...the production's really nice too. think Super Gangster bogs down in the second half but starts out really solid.

now waiting for my new copy of the first damn Lox album, urgh.

i'm kind of tempted to read the novel Styles wrote on his Blackberry

Phantom Gangster Chronicles Vol. 1 is really short (29 minutes) but it's still quality Styles P.

altho it does have stuff that's appeared on other tapes...

digging on the newest one. I liked last year's Float, feel like he's doin more interesting stuff lyrically on this one. the beats are mostly nondescript and get out of the way.

like the track w/ Vado a lot

also a nice Mecca + Medina ref

Motherfucker is on Cameo for $25.

I wanna hear from the Ghost!

lol I did it, and he actually said my first and last name on camera.

dude is just mad consistent. listening to his last few albs now

still get hyped when his verse comes up on "B.M.F.". very different beat than he's comfortable with usually and he kills it.

very few missteps in dude's career, though also few 'classics'. he's just consistently good