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YONKERS, NY - Styles P wants to see his community live a healthier lifestyle and has hosted a plant-based food drive in his hometown of Yonkers.
In collaboration with Farma Cares, the Ghost held the first monthly food event with the Yonkers YMCA on Sunday (September 24).
They ended up feeding about 200 people with healthy alternatives including vegan pizza, garlic knots, salad and three different flavors of vegan ice cream.
“We wanna bring a healthier mindstate to the community,” SP said at the event. “Show people they ain’t always gotta eat dairy, meat. You all have alternatives to get healthy. Being health-minded and having options and just thinking different, moving different, living different, and being on the same vibration with each other.
“The better we all do as individuals, the better we do as a community, family and the better we do for our town, and our city. We will learn with each other and we will keep spreading the messages with each other and for each other. I love you.”
Watch highlights from the Yonkers community event below.
Hours later on Sunday, Styles P hit the Irving Plaza stage with his LOX brothers Jadakiss and Sheek Louch for a show celebrating the 25th anniversary of their first album, Money, Power & Respect.
Kiss posted a picture of himself, Styles P, and Sheek Louch huddled together with their heads bowed and praying — pointing to how the group has managed to stay together and maintain a brotherhood for nearly three decades.
“And they ask us how we manage to stay together for this many years [thinking face emoji],” Jadakiss said of his group members.
At their performance, they performed a slew of their classic records including “Fuck You,” and “We Gonna Make It,” to name a few.
HipHopDX spoke to the legendary New York group back in 2020 about their staying power in such an unforgiving industry.
“As far as this trio goes, I feel like we’re special because we managed to stand the test of time,” Styles P said at the time. “Young people fuck with us, our peer groups fuck with us, the elders fuck with us, and we fuck with the elders, our peer group, and the youngins.”
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There’s a high probability that Jorja Smith has new music coming this summer. The British singer revealed plans for her What Are the Odds LP on Thursday (July 2), with the album set to arrive on Aug. 21 via FAMM.
Smith reunites with producer P2J — who served as a primary collaborator on her 2023 album Falling or Flying — for the entirety of the project. J Money and P2J will continue to build on the inventive U.K. garage sound Smith has been exploring, alongside a mix of grime and house.
“This album came together really naturally. There was never a big plan; it was just me making music that felt right in the moment,” Smith tells Billboard. “Working with P2J, we started experimenting with different sounds, pulling from U.K. garage, grime and house (funky house, Afro house) and it all grew from there.”
She continues: “The music feels uplifting, but the lyrics can be a bit sad at times. They’re about growing up, love, loss, friendships and figuring things out as I go. I trusted my instincts with this one, and I think you can hear that throughout the record.”
Smith kicked off the album’s rollout in May with the self-assuring “What’s Done Is Done,” and it continues on Thursday (July 2) with a second single, “Alive,” which finds the R&B singer joining forces with Afrobeats pioneer WizKid. The duo basks in the love-drunk euphoria of the honeymoon phase of a bubbling relationship and heads to Paris for the visual.
“Making this with P2J and WizKid felt really easy,” Smith adds of the collab. “We wrote and recorded it together in London. I think we captured that feeling when you’re at the beginning of something with someone and everything feels exciting. I’ve always loved WizKid’s music and the way he’s opened so many doors for Afrobeats around the world, so it feels really special and a big honor to have a song with him.”
What Are the Odds serves as Jorja Smith’s third studio album and contains 12 tracks. Outside of WizKid, the only other feature comes from grime artist Devlin.
When the project lands on Aug. 21, Smith will hit the stage later that night at London’s All Points East, as she’ll be co-headlining the Victoria Park show with Tems. 2026 has already been a busy year for J Money, who served as a musical guest on the debut season of Saturday Night Live UK in April.
The 29-year-old also collaborated with Mobb Deep’s Havoc for a remix of her “Blue Lights” classic and lent “Price of It All” to Amazon MGM Studios’ Bait soundtrack.
Find the What Are the Odds cover art and tracklist below.
What Are the Odds tracklist:
