“Kiss and Sheek were already a group and I was a solo-ist from another part of town. I met ‘Kiss in 9th grade,” recalls Styles. I met Sheek in junior-high summer school. I remember always flowin’ wherever I went.

It wasn’t until he began spitting rhymes that Styles knew this art form would be his salvation. Hough I rap I still got the same niggas from day one.” “Those kats are still my boys and I’ve got to respect everything I’ve been through,” testifies Styles.

Styles had to decipher between who had his back and the people who tried to knife it. Ya know, the regular stuff young boys do in the ghetto.” Drugs, guns and stabbed backs become routine in the streets. Ralph and me started off “bottlin’ up” and then started pumpin’. “My man “BG” (Black Garf) and I use to go outside for the hustlin’. “I basically grew up in the ghetto like most black boys,” says Styles. The streets have taught him what it means to be loyal, to be aware, to beware and to know that life spares no one. His mother, a South African woman from Johannesburg, and his father, a Brooklyn native, have been instrumental in his development as a lyricist-whether directly or indirectly. And he considers himself to be a Yonkers man because he has spent a third of his life there, on Groshan Ave. You’re either with him or against him, plain and simple.īorn in Corona, Queens, Styles moved to Yonkers NY at the age of seven. Once a Bad Boy Entertainment devotee-LOX was signed to Sean Combs label during their “Money, Power, Respect” days-Styles, still a committed member of the LOX crew, rips chests open and leaves hearts hanging for questioning. drives skills so hard not even the strongest MC can break ‘em. Now, unleashing fire on his solo debut project, “A Gangster and a Gentleman,” Mr. And these aren’t attributes he chose to take on willingly, these traits stem from personal experiences that have molded him to be one of the most-if not the most-grimiest and most lethal rapper around today. keeps it so real, one look and, he’ll make any “Ruff-Neck” go soft. A hardcore runner whose thugged-out persona leaves admirers and challengers for the chase-and he’s so far ahead of the game that there isn’t anyone who’s remotely close to catching up. His blood gauging lyrics will leave you cringing and wounded. He embodies true thug-life to the fullest, and then some. Styles P., government name David Styles, is no ordinary rapper. “…I don’t see myself as a positive or negative…I’m a gentleman if you’re a gentleman and I’m definitely a gangsta’ if you’re a gangsta’.” –Styles P.

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