TSS: You’ve been in the game a good decade. How long
have you been doing this rap thing?
STYLES P: Oh, you ain’t just talking about industry-wise? You mean when I had “it“?
TSS: Yeah. At what point did you know you were really nice?
STYLES P: I would say around 7th grade, probably.
TSS: For real, that early? And this is coming up in Yonkers, right?
STYLES P: Yonkers is a town with a lot of MCs. So, it was like everybody was rapping, you know what I mean? And if your name was popping and good enough to be out there you had to
have something, because it was so many people. Before I was in the group, it was just Kiss and Sheek rapping. I was on the other side of town. So, it was them, you had DMX, you had me, then you had a bunch of other Yonkers people. A good 20 to 25 MCs. The older people used to fuck with me and always ask me to rhyme and give me a couple of dollars to rhyme or do whatever. So I knew I had something.
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