Tekashi 6ix9ine has returned, though it seems the public interest has decreased significantly since "GOOBA." Nonetheless, he's still up to his trolling ways with a new single supposedly coming at the end of the month. The song apparently has a major feature which many suspected could be Nicki Minaj, though there hasn't been any actual confirmation of that.

p>What we can tell you is that he's been in the studio with Akon. Earlier today, 6ix9ine shared a clip of himself in the studio with the Akon working on "Locked Up Pt. 2." Now, for anyone born post-2000, you may have been too young to recall how big of a song it was. With Styles P delivering a guest verse on it, Akon came through with an anthem for the streets that reached beyond the borders of the United States. That being said, many began tagging Styles P after the clip emerged with some sort of anticipation that he'd be upset. That isn't the case. In fact, Styles P is making it abundantly clear that he won't let Tekashi's recent IG post distract him from sending out his reminder to boost your immune system.

"My job is 2 remind you 2 boost the immune system n not get distracted by minor things i will always consider Akon a brother but we have not spoke or seen each other In years I don’t know 6’9 meaning all 3 of our paths are different.I live by my code n don’t hold others 2 my code," he wrote. "To make this even simpler 4 u wondering how I feel about the song.I honestly don’t give a fux the fact that this is even a topic 2 discuss with all the racial tension n plandemic/ pandemic makes me want to focus in harder on reminding y’all 2 stay golden n boost the immune!"

Check the tweet out below. 

Years ago, The Lox found a home with Bad Boy Records. The New York rap trio was featured on a number of the label’s hits, but somewhere along the line, things began to grow sour between Sheek Louch, Styles P, Jadakiss, and the label’s head honcho, Diddy. The rappers petitioned to have The Lox released from Bad Boy, even speaking with radio stations to air out their grievances, but it wasn’t until Styles P reportedly threw a chair at Diddy did they all agree to part ways.

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The Lox recently revisited that incident when speaking with HipHopDX, and Styles P was remorseful about how everything went down. “The moment with tossing the chair at Puff was a combination of being really f*cking stupid and really f*cking angry,” said Styles P. “I think for me, Big was always the barrier, and the mediator, and the middle person. He was always able to make things make sense to me. So I think when Big passed, it was just kind of really hard for me to deal with it and see certain things.”

While Styles may feel bad about those moments filled with tension, he still stands by everything he said about Bad Boy and Diddy at the time. “We don’t regret anything at all. It was like us saying you want some of this old man,” he added. Sheek Louch chimed in, “Man it’s a part of the history, baby. To be honest, if you would’ve known how many artists and MC’s came to us after that saying, ‘Yo, we should’ve did that,’ or ‘We wish we would’ve did that. It was still a very dumb thing to do, but it felt good to do because I think a lot of people wanted to do it. But they ain’t have the balls.”

“It made us who we are,” added Jadakiss. “It showed us, like he said, it might have not been the smartest thing to do today. But we was young, we was rebellious, and we was savage mode.” Meanwhile, make sure to keep an ear out for The Lox’s forthcoming record, Living Off Xperience, that’s set to hit streaming services sometime this year.

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These days it's nearly impossible not to let anxious thoughts creep into our consciousness, especially for those more inclined to play stay-at-home doctor. Each cough will be second-guessed, every feverish symptom deemed all the more worrisome. For Styles P, the legendary Lox lyricist, his mind has already been made up. As he tells it, he (along with many others) suffered a battle with the coronavirus in January, long before the U.S. government seemed concerned with raising the alarm. 

"I almost died in January," tweeted Styles, a few days ago. "And I never get the flu and if I do it’s a day or two. In January I was down for a week and lost about 8 pounds !! I had the rona !! It had to be the Rona !!!! I did mad black seed oil and went on a juice/tea diet and rested ! Go for it !!" After followers inquired further, P claimed that many in his neighborhood were suffering from the same symptoms, leading to fears of a "new flu." In hindsight, he feels all that all roads lead back to the "Rona." 

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The rapper also maintains that the majority of the population will be affected by the virus, provided they haven't been already. As such, he implores the masses to be vigilant in adhering to social distancing recommendations, as well as keeping the immune system healthy through wise nutritional choices.

On that note, he made sure to provide a few cold remedies--not to be confused with a cure-- including "black seed oil, oil of oregano, ginger lemon and turmeric juiced with cayenne pepper on top, super lysine pills, elderberry syrup, Epsom salts baths, prayers, and deep breathing." Stay safe out there, people. 

The Lox rapper Styles P is allowing the public into his world and marriage to Adjua Styles. The veteran rapper and his wife of 25 years are currently featured on Marriage Boot Camp, and they’ve been addressing the issues in their marriage that has caused their relationship to become stagnate. They’ve endured infidelity, monotony, and the suicide of their 20-year-old daughter five years ago. 

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In a recent episode, the Marriage Boot Camp couples addressed their intimacy issues and how they respond to one another in the bedroom. Adjua admitted that after Styles P had an affair, she withholds sex when she feels like it. “So, now it’s like, okay, can’t screw my wife, she wanna use sex as a weapon,” Styles P said. Adjua added that their communication changed, thus shifting their connection, as well. “It’s not healthy,” she said. “It’s less kindness.”

“I was very less kind,” Styles P admitted. “I felt guilty…more failure than guilt.” Then, using hand puppets of themselves, they lavished each other in compliments in a heartwarming—yet awkward—scene. “No matter what, we’ll make it through because we have each other,” the rapper said. “I’m sorry.” Check out the brief clip of Styles P and Adjua Styles below.

This year, Styles P and Adjua Styles will be celebrating their 25th marriage anniversary. The hip hop couple is currently featured on this season fo Marriage Boot Camp, and they’re hoping that their appearance will help them iron out some wrinkled places in their relationship. Adjua shared with Madame Noire that the last 10 years with her husband have fallen into a monotonous rut, so they wanted to take advantage of the couple’s therapy even if it was on reality television.

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In 2015, Styles P and Adjua’s 20-year-old daughter Tai committed suicide. Since that time, the couple has spoken openly about their ongoing healing process. While many couples decide to split following a tragedy, Adjua Styles said that breaking up her marriage wasn’t even an option. “It was more like, ‘What the hell are we going to do to make sure we support each other and get through this to heal?'” she said. “That was not even a whim. It was like, ‘Ok, so this is our situation, this has been put in our path. What can we do to not be broken from it? How can we use each other to strengthen and heal?’ We leaned on each other.”

She also talked about the “phases” a parent goes through when they lose a child so tragically. “For me, the phase that I’m in now, it’s so much better. It’s peaceful,” Adjua added. “The initial stage is very difficult. You can’t even articulate what you’re going through, let alone lean on anyone. You don’t even really know what’s going on. Your whole world is shaken up.”

Adjua also mentioned that she has a heartfelt concern for Vanessa Bryant after the deaths of her husband Kobe Bryant and their 13-year-old daughter Gianna Bryant. “For her to have her partner gone. It’s a double whammy,” Adjua added. “I think about her just trying to process. You process one, then the other. Then you still have the children you’re looking at, which are reminders. It’s a lot.”

Yonkers very own, Jadakiss stopped by Genius’ For The Record to discuss an array of different topics but, one story caught the attention of many hip-hop purists regarding Styles P‘s verse on Jay Z‘s “Reservoir Dogs.” During the interview, the 44-year-old emcee recalled the instance where Jay Z had requested himself and his Lox brethren to come to the studio to be featured on a song on his iconic LP, Vol 2… Hard Knock Life (1998).  Theo Wargo/Getty Images

While The Lox were willing to collaborate on the track, which also featured Beanie Sigel and Sauce Money, they had just landed from a flight and requested if they’d be able to drop off their bags. Unfortunately, Hov wasn’t patient enough to be willing to fulfill their request as Jada recalls:

“So we’re like, ‘That’s cool. We’re gonna go home, put our luggage (away).’ And they were like, ‘Nah, (Jay Z) wants you to come there right now.'” Jada continued, “We ain’t got carry-ons. We got big shit we had to check. So that put us on edge a little, ’cause we always lookin’ at it like, ‘If (Hov) just landed, would he just come to the studio with his luggage? No!’ But that was a good edge.”

Jadakiss remembers The Lox obliging and Sheek Louch and Beanie Sigel laying down their verses the first evening. Styles P recorded his contributions to the track the following day, but still held some animosity towards Jay for having them come straight to the studio after a tiresome flight. The Ghost kicks off his “Reservoir Dogs” verse rapping:

“I don’t give a F*CK who you are, so F*CK who you are
I don’t care about a pretty bitch, watch or a car
I don’t care about your block and whoever you shot
I don’t care about your album and whenever it drop
I don’t care about your past if I did I woulda asked”

Jadakiss told Rob Markman:

“He was going at Hov on there. Hov was like, ‘Well, it sounded like you talking about me on it.'”

The “Show Discipline” rapper also revealed that he moved back the release of his album, Ignatius (2020), in the wake of Pop Smoke and Kobe Bryant’s deaths. He also spoke on Ignatius being a memorial album for Ruff Ryders’ very own, Icepick Jay and stated that he removed his single “Hunting Season” featuring Pusha T out of respect for the recently slain 20-year-old rapper. 

Check out Jadakiss’ full On The Record interview with Genius in the video provided below. 

Yonkers very own, Jadakiss stopped by Genius’ For The Record to discuss an array of different topics but, one story caught the attention of many hip-hop purists regarding Styles P‘s verse on Jay Z‘s “Reservoir Dogs.” During the interview, the 44-year-old emcee recalled the instance where Jay Z had requested himself and his Lox brethren to come to the studio to be featured on a song on his iconic LP, Vol 2… Hard Knock Life (1998).  Theo Wargo/Getty Images

While The Lox were willing to collaborate on a the track, which also featured Beanie Sigel and Sauce Money, they had just landed from a flight and requested if they’d be able to drop off their bags. Unfortunately, Hov wasn’t patient enough to be willing to fulfill their request as Jada recalls:

“So we’re like, ‘That’s cool. We’re gonna go home, put our luggage (away).’ And they were like, ‘Nah, (Jay Z) wants you to come there right now.'” Jada continued, “We ain’t got carry-ons. We got big shit we had to check. So that put us on edge a little, ’cause we always lookin’ at it like, ‘If (Hov) just landed, would he just come to the studio with his luggage? No!’ But that was a good edge.”

Jadakiss remembers The Lox obliging and Sheek Louch and Beanie Sigel laying down their verses the first evening. Styles P recorded his contributions to the track the following day, but still held some animosity towards Jay for having them come straight to the studio after a tiresome flight. The Ghost kicks off his “Reservoir Dogs” verse rapping:

“I don’t give a FUCK who you are, so FUCK who you are
I don’t care about a pretty bitch, watch or a car
I don’t care about your block and whoever you shot
I don’t care about your album and whenever it drop
I don’t care about your past if I did I woulda asked”

Jadakiss told Rob Markman:

“He was going at Hov on there. Hov was like, ‘Well, it sounded like you talking about me on it.'”

The “Show Discipline” rapper also revealed that he moved back the release of his album, Ignatius (2020), in the wake of Pop Smoke and Kobe Bryant’s deaths. He also spoke on Ignatius being a memorial album for Ruff Ryders’ very own, Icepick Jay and stated that he removed his single “Hunting Season” featuring Pusha T out of respect for the recently slain 20-year-old rapper. 

Check out Jadakiss’ full On The Record interview with Genius in the video provided below. 

Once upon a time, The Lox was signed to Bad Boy Records. Jadakiss, Sheek Louch, and Styles P would grow disenchanted with their deal because their style wasn’t meshing well with Bad Boy’s sound, but parting ways was easier said than done. Jadakiss recently revealed that Diddy decided to let them go after a heated exchange resulted in Styles P throwing a chair at the mogul, but the group was still at odds with Puff over their publishing. 

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Back in 2005, The Lox visited Hot 97 and chatted with Angie Martinez about their gripes with Diddy. The group talked about signing over most of their publishing to the Bad Boy founder when they inked their contracts, and things took a turn when Diddy called the station to discuss their concerns. An angry Jadakiss told Diddy he’d throw a refrigerator at him, but thankfully, no one has had furniture tossed their way.

Recently, former Bad Boy rapper Mase took to Instagram to publicly call out Diddy for not selling him his publishing. He said that Diddy talks about “black excellence,” but when Mase approached Diddy with $2 million, Diddy allegedly rejected the offer because someone else was interested. Diddy has yet to respond to the allegations, but MRECK TV caught up with Jadakiss to get the rapper’s thoughts on Mase’s beef with Diddy.

“I think Mase got a good enough relationship, he can go talk to Diddy,” Jadakiss said. “The way we did it on the radio with Angie [Martinez], that was different. We was young kids. We ain’t understand business the way we do now, being business owners and fathers and grown men about it. Mase gotta better relationship with Diddy than we actually had, so he can go talk to him.”

“In his defense, I don’t know how it was going down so he’s doing what he gotta do,” the rapper added. “I just know I would handle it different at this point in life. When we did the whole ‘Let The Lox Go’ campaign we was still teenagers. Twenty-years-old, early twenties. Everybody’s grown men known and they know right from wrong… You can go talk to a man as a man and handle your differences, settle your differences without this foolishness or without social media.” Check it out below.

Where once he threw chairs, these days Styles P is more inclined to throw gems. Held in high esteem by anybody with any semblance of respect for hip-hop, The Ghost has earned the right to speak as an authority. There are some who might even deem him the game's most consistent contributor. Suffice it to say, Styles' input carries weight -- even when he's touching on some undeniably divisive topics. 

Young megastar Billie Eilish, known for her caption-friendly brand of gothic pop, recently made comments on hip-hop authenticity. "There are tons of songs where people are just lying," she said, in a Vogue Interview. "There’s a lot of that in rap right now, from people that I know who rap. It’s like, ‘I got my AK-47, and I’m fuckin and I’m like, what? You don’t have a gun. ‘And all my bitches.’ I’m like, which bitches? That’s posturing, and that’s not what I’m doing.” 

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It's not the first time a pop star with rap ties has voiced criticism about hip-hop, with Post Malone and Miley Cyrus having made similar comments. As per usual, the backlash isn't far. While many were quick to acknowledge that Billie wasn't wrong in her assessment, they questioned her authenticity as a messenger. Styles P voiced a similar opinion, taking to Twitter with a few takes on the matter. "Who is Billie eilish ? Why the fuck do we care what she thinks ?? And she is sorta Of right but she don’t get the culture nor is she part of it so why do we give a fuck ? How or why is her opinion important to us ?"

He acknowledges that while rappers do indeed veer into fictitious territory, it's no different from actors or directors tackling violent subject matter. "Rappers can say whatever the fuck they want and pretty much all rappers lie," he says. "If you don't like it then don't listen and mind your damn business." Last but not least, Pinero issues an important reminder that rappers are human beings and suspectible to the same emotions as anyone else. "Stop putting us on such a high pedestal because you feel we should or shouldn’t do something," he says. "Grow up."

Prior to being known as The Lox, the New York hip hop group went by The Warlocks. Sheek Louch, Styles P, and Jadakiss endured a name change at the hands of Sean “Diddy” Combs when he inked a deal with them in 1995, and they were happy to adjust because it was during a time when Bad Boy Records was in its prime. 

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However, years later, The Lox members were ready to leave Bad Boy because their more hardcore rap style wasn’t blending well with the label’s creative direction. They did their best to legally be released from their contract, but Jadakiss reveals what led to Diddy finally letting the rappers move on with their careers with Bad Boy in their rearview.

Jadakiss took a trip down memory lane with HipHopDX and revisited some 1990s moments. “[Diddy] just changed our name and just walked out the room,” Jadakiss said with a smile. “At that time he was like MJ in his prime so it was like, everything he said was golden so we was young hungry whippersnappers coming from Yonkers. He knew a lot about marketing and said Warlocks wasn’t marketable and Lox was more marketable.”

Then, he shared how The Lox managed to break ties with the label. “It was probably after the argument with Diddy,” Jadakiss revealed. “When Styles threw the chair at Puff. I ain’t sure, but that was probably the last straw for that. Prior to that we was…conversations amongst the group and things of that nature, but after that little incident happened, I think that’s when we decided to part ways.”

Watch the rapper’s full clip below and listen to how his friend was responsible for giving him his rap moniker.