24: Why did your album take so long to come
out when it seem like it was actually done?
Styles P: I should be asking you that question
because I don’t even know I guess politics.

24: How different was the process from
recording your first album to the new one?
Styles P: The recording process wasn’t
any different but if anything it was my mind frame because I was just going
in to the studio and recording day to day.

24: What producers did you work with on
“Time is Money?”
Styles P: Hi-Tek, Havoc, Scott Storch, Lil
John, Dame Grease, and of course Akon to name a few.

24: What collaborations are featured on
the album?
Styles P: I did a joint with Jagged Edge, Sizzla,
Gerald Levert (R.I.P.), Marsha Ambrosius (one half of the group Floetry), and
Talib Kweli.

24: How do you feel about Hip Hop right
now as far as the music that’s been coming out of New York?
Styles P: It’s fucked up! It’s
screwed up that’s how I feel about it.

24: A while back rumors were flying that
the lox was signing to Def Jam, How true was that?
Styles P: Right now it’s where ever the
bigger check is so it might be Interscope or somewhere else.

24: You and Jadakiss went line for line
on Rick Ross “Push It” remix and then again on The Game “Its
Okay(One Blood) remix so I have to ask the question would you and Jadakiss ever
do a group album?
Styles P: We all in the group thought about
doing solo albums then switching it up like that so yeah but we haven’t
found the time to fit it all in yet in reality.

24: What’s next for D-Block?
Styles P: We’ll you know we have a Car
Wash we opened in Yonkers and expanding on that also I’m looking into
a Towing Company, and Jadakiss has his own cigars coming out.

24: Yourself and Akon seem to have a great
chemistry together speak a little about that?
Styles P: I first met him when I did “Locked
Up” my man Super Mario hooked it up and from there I seen him at a couple
of places and we kicked it. Akon is very humble, cool, and down to earth so
from that we did a lot of work together that’s my dude.

24: Which song on the album mean’s
the most to you?
Styles P: “I’m Black” if
I had to choose just one.

24: Recently you changed your alias from
the “Ghost” to the “Phantom.” Why?
Styles P: A new moniker you know I’m
like the Ghost on another level.

24: Any last comments?
Styles P: Alum “Time is Money”
in stores now, there will be no heavy promotion or big videos so hold me down
tell a friend to tell a friend.

Interview by: Jay Carter