Styles P says Jim Jones isn’t touching him lyrically.
The LOX rapper sat down with the No Funny Shit Show where, at around the 23:00 minute mark, co-host Kenny Supreme said that he thinks Jones might have it over Styles “in a 20 pack” of songs.
Styles said Supreme is “entitled” to his opinion because “hip-hop is about you connecting with music.” Styles went on to say that he and Capo “ain’t in the same league.”
“Me and Jim don’t do the same thing. I’m a bar master. I’m a lyrical technician. I’ve been on joints with some of the best emcees in the world,” P added, before naming The Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, Black Thought, and Talib Kweli as some of the rappers he’s worked with.
SP wasn’t done.
“I bar shit down. When Rakim tells you you nice, KRS tells you you nice, Big tells you you nice, Hov tells you you nice … all these people tell you you nice, you’re fucking nice,” he said.
“I’m not here to make catchy hooks and do dope shit. I don’t knock that. I’m trying to say some shit that’s gonna make your soul move—that’s gonna be some shit you may catch 10 years later, down the line,” he added. “There’s not many people in my age group that have the amount of catalog I have.”
“[Jim] don’t got none of those kind of songs that make n***as cry,” Styles explained. “You better check my jacket. I made up a fucking lane. There was no artist emcee before. It was fly dudes, it was kings. I invented the lane where n***as saying they make hard shit. Me.”
Jones then challenged Styles to a Verzuz in the caption of what appears to be a now-deleted Instagram post.
“Now go listen to [the] song ‘Bobby’ we did on Lobby Boy,” he said of the track “No Bobby V” on the 2022 album The Lobby Boyz from him and Maino. “We recorded it at the same time in [the] studio together. Since we talkin’ bars let’s [just] do a versus [sic] ep something for [the] people to listen n judge.”
Jones added, “I’m not scared of no competition on any level I’m here to level [the] playin field. If we talkin bars let’s go.”
While Styles and Jones don’t appear to have any beef, the LOX and the Diplomats faced off in a Verzuz back in 2021, which the LOX decidedly won. After their victory, the Yonkers, New York, trio sat down with GQ to discuss the battle’s impact, particularly because it led to an rush of new, younger listeners.
“It’s been a blur, but I don’t think I took it like everybody else did. We always work around the clock, but I definitely didn’t expect the Verzuz to have the magnitude it’s had; I can’t front,” Styles said.
“The influx of young fans is the best part of it all,” he added.
