Styles P has long been known for being one of Hip Hop’s top-tier lyricists, but he now believes that the sport of rap isn’t a place that breeds competition anymore.
In a Thursday (July 13) interview with Jalen Rose on his Renaissance Man With Jalen Rose podcast, The LOX rapper spoke about the lack of friendly sparring in the rap game while using basketball scoring analogies to drive his point home.
“That’s also the difference between Hip Hop of back then and Hip Hop of today, they aren’t competitive enough against each other, I feel,” said Styles P. “I personally feel — like, when you get on a track with somebody it’s supposed to be business. When you get in the studio with somebody, you supposed to be trying to air them out. Not diss them, but you supposed to be trying to drop a triple-double.”
He added: “If they gone drop a double-double, you want to make sure you drop a triple-double and I think that sense of competitiveness has left somewhat.”
Styles P has been very vocal about a number of topics in culture as of late. During the 2023 BET Awards weekend in June, HipHopDX asked Ghost about the first rap record he was able to memorize in its entirety.
Styles P opted to name Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five’s 1982 call-to-action track, “The Message.” “That was the first, most inspirational song for me,” he explained. “Album-wise though, I think everybody was focused on remembering Rakim, Kool G Rap, [Big Daddy] Kane, and KRS [One] bar for bar, especially my era.”
In addition, Ghost recently discussed his disdain for A.I. [Artificial Intelligence]. During a July interview with First Smoke of the Day, Styles P made it clear that while his peers may be down with the AI revolution, he’s not a fan of using the tools because it goes against the Higher Order of things.
“I don’t dig it,” he said. “I don’t like artificial anything, especially not artificial intelligence. I think, as people, none of us do. Do you know what’s crazy, when you think about it? God made Man. Man made Machine. Machine is thinking better than Man, and that is God.”
He continued: “Artificial intelligence is man-made. Who’s making it? So you have a lot of human beings that are not going to understand that a human being actually made artificial intelligence. And now people are going to think that artificial intelligence can think better than its creator.”