Styles P, one-third of Yonkers rap group The Lox, opened up on Instagram yesterday (July 26) with a very heavy heart and informed his fans of the trying time he and his family are undergoing. According to the rapper, who spoke out on police brutality back at the top of the year, he and his wife have been quietly suffering after their 20-something-year-old daughter, Tai Hing (Tai Styles) committed suicide a month ago. Styles took to social media to express his anguish in a heart-wrenching message for fans and fellow artists, conveying just how important family ties are.
Styles penned a heart-felt message on Instagram about his daughter taking her own life over a month ago. Although Tai was not his biological child, we are able to gather that the two shared a bond unparalleled and that her existence meant the world to him.
In anguish-filled rhetoric Styles wrote, "I have lost my brother, father, aunt, grandmother in law and too many good friends/ brothers and now my daughter!!!!"
The former Bad Boy artist goes on to refelect on his career saying that while he's had the privilege of seeing the world, having millions of fans worldwide and obtaining riches beyond his dreams, none of that measures up to the love and importance of family.
He warns fellow artists that while chasing your goals and aspirations are important, nothing is of more value than the loved ones who surround you. Styles maintains that on the road to riches one should never lose their focus, which is keeping "family first".
Styles P performed at the BET Awards last month during the Bad Boy reunion, and also made a cameo in Dame Dash and Kanye West's Too Honorable trailer earlier this year.
Let our prayers and well wishes be with Styles and his family during these difficult times.