Styles P A Free Agent

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Styles P hurt his leg after a recent run-in with a man filled with road rage, but it\'s not stopping the MC from recording. Styles says the new LOX album is almost done, and he\'s working on his next solo album as well. SP is a free agent and wants to drop again right away. "I\'m off of Ruff Ryders and Interscope," he explained. "I\'m still there as the LOX, but as a soloist, Styles P, I\'m gone. I give it a smile. I get to do a lot of work. I get to let loose.

"There\'s a lot of people hollering right now," he added about where he might land a new record deal. "But to tell you the truth, I don\'t even want to speak to anybody in the majors until I speak to everybody independent. I don\'t even know if I will speak to any of the majors. ... Then again I will, just because there\'s some people I respect. I\'ve been through a lot of ups and downs. I want to get properly paid for my work. I think I\'m too street for them to ever put me on a high industry pedestal. I don\'t see that coming. I get respect \'cause I\'m a made man, because of the work I do."

Styles said after a long talk with Dee Dean from Ruff Ryders and Interscope head Jimmy Iovine, everyone decided amicably it would be best if they sever business ties — at least when it comes to the album Styles is doing by himself.

"I\'ll be critical of myself. Maybe I was real anal on my project as an artist," he said of his recently released Time Is Money. He did say he was upset that Ruff Ryders/ Interscope didn\'t give him a single or video to support the project\'s release, and the LP was pushed back several times over an almost three-year period. "I don\'t just handle my project as an artist. I\'mma try to handle it as a CEO, a businessman.

"I guess it\'s hard to market me," he continued. "I may rap one way one day and make \'I\'m Black,\' then another way another day and make \'Favorite Drug.\' I had to spread my wings and do what I do. You can look to hear from me hard in March or April. I will be right back. I haven\'t thought of an album title yet. I\'m still smoking and pondering on it. But I\'m the Phantom now; the Ghost is over with. If you\'re my friend, you can call me the Ghost. But as far as MCing … and don\'t call me a rapper no more. Call me an MC."