DAVE EAST & STYLES P
Sit with people over 35 and people under 30 in the same room together, and chances are you’ll have a full-scale argument on your hands in any given conversation about Hip Hop. Even if there is an agreement on lyrical skills, there continues to be a maddening debate about what is musically valuable to the culture. While Styles P was celebrating the release of The Lox’ debut Money, Power & Respect album in 1998, Dave East was barely 10-years-old. By the time Styles hit the scene with his official solo debut A Gangster and a Gentleman in 2002, an adolescent East was preparing himself for a potential career in basketball.
In 2018, as Styles P released his ninth solo album, G-Host, still riding high off of The Lox’ 2016 album, Filthy America… It’s Beautiful, Dave East was painstakingly preparing his
