Styles P’s wife is Adjua Styles, a Brooklyn-born entrepreneur, author, and wellness advocate who has been married to the LOX rapper since July 31, 1995. That’s 30 years. In hip hop, where long marriages are the exception rather than the rule, Styles and Adjua have built something that most people in the industry don’t get to keep: a partnership that actually lasted.
But Adjua isn’t just “Styles P’s wife.” She’s the co-owner of their Juices for Life juice bar chain and Farmacy for Life health store, the founder of her own clean beauty line, and the author of a book about surviving the worst thing that can happen to a parent. Her story is worth knowing on its own terms.
QUICK FACTS
- Full name: Adjua Styles
- Heritage: Brooklyn native with Panamanian and Cuban roots
- Married: July 31, 1995
- Children: Two — Tai (1995–2015) and Noah (born 1998)
- Businesses: Juices for Life, Farmacy for Life, Signature By Adjua Styles
- Book: The Ethereal Hike (2020)
- TV appearances: OWN’s Black Love, WE tv’s Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition
Who Is Adjua Styles?
Adjua Styles grew up in Brooklyn with Panamanian and Cuban heritage, raised in a Rastafarian household where organic food and plant-based eating were the norm long before either became a trend. She attended culinary school and built a reputation as a cake designer with celebrity clientele before expanding into wellness, beauty, and publishing.
What stands out about Adjua is how many of the ventures the couple is known for trace back to her influence. Styles P has been open about the fact that she’s the one who changed his diet, his health habits, and eventually his career trajectory. In an Essence interview, Adjua explained that her Rastafarian upbringing gave her a foundation in organic eating from childhood. Styles put it more bluntly—she saw him eating badly on tour and started pushing better meals on him. That shift eventually led to both of them going plant-based and, later, building an entire business around the idea.
She’s been featured across major outlets including OWN’s Black Love docuseries, Revolt, BET, Vibe, and Madame Noire—often not as a celebrity spouse doing press, but as a woman with her own story and platform.
How Long Have Styles P and Adjua Been Married?
Styles P and Adjua married on July 31, 1995, a year after The LOX formed and well before the group signed to Bad Boy Records. They were together through the Bad Boy era, the move to Ruff Ryders, Styles’ solo career, and his eight-month jail sentence in 2002 after a nightclub altercation in New York.
In April 2025, Styles celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary with an Instagram carousel that included photos from their 1995 wedding day. His caption was characteristically direct: “We was love & hip hop before the show existed.”
The marriage hasn’t been without real fractures. On OWN’s Black Love, Adjua described discovering Styles’ infidelity through an accidental phone call—a butt-dial where the tone of his conversation made the situation immediately clear. On Marriage Boot Camp, Styles himself admitted through tears that he had lied and cheated. What’s notable is how they handled it: Adjua confronted it directly instead of letting it fester, and both have spoken publicly about using that crisis as a turning point rather than an ending.
In a 2023 interview, Adjua credited communication and continued friendship as the foundation. “Making sure we have fun, still date each other, and still get to know each other,” she said, “because there are growth spurts and ebbs and flows.”
How Many Children Do Styles P and Adjua Have?
Styles P and Adjua have two children. Their son Noah was born in 1998. Their daughter Tai, born in 1995, was Adjua’s daughter from a previous relationship. Styles raised Tai as his own from the time she was an infant, he was her stepfather for virtually her entire life.
Tai died by suicide in June 2015 at the age of 20. Her death reshaped the family and the couple’s marriage in ways they’ve spoken about publicly and at length, a choice that took real courage from both of them.
What Happened to Styles P and Adjua’s Daughter Tai?
In July 2015, Styles P shared an Instagram post revealing that he and Adjua had lost Tai the previous month. “I rarely speak on my personal issues and I usually express my pain through music,” he wrote, “but today I will share a little with you.”
Tai had been living on her own at the time. In a 2017 Breakfast Club interview, Adjua said she and Styles had no idea their daughter was struggling with depression. “As much as you think that they’re telling you everything, you don’t know everything,” Adjua told the hosts. She described Tai’s death as the result of several colliding pressures—a recent breakup, confusion about her identity, and a deep, unresolved pain over the absence of her biological father.
Styles broke down during that interview talking about Tai’s biological father not being present when she wanted him to be. It was one of the rawest moments a rapper of his stature has ever given on camera.
The loss tested their marriage hard. On OWN’s Black Love, Adjua admitted she’d heard that losing a child often breaks a couple apart but never understood why until she lived through it. “We’ve literally been forced to grow from that experience,” she said. They later appeared on WE tv’s Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition in 2020 to work through the grief publicly.
Adjua channeled the experience into her book, The Ethereal Hike: How to Discern the Privilege of Loss Through the Power of Love, published in January 2020. It’s about healing after losing a child, written with the kind of honesty that doesn’t come from therapy-speak but from someone who actually walked through it. She’s since used the book and her platform to advocate for mental health awareness, particularly around youth suicide and the importance of recognizing depression in young people who seem like they’re doing fine.
What Businesses Do Styles P and Adjua Own Together?
The couple’s business portfolio has expanded well beyond music. In 2011, Styles and his LOX groupmate Jadakiss opened the first Juices for Life location in the Bronx—a juice bar intentionally placed in a food desert to bring fresh options to an underserved community. The chain has since grown to multiple locations across New York, including the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Yonkers.
In 2018, Styles and Adjua together launched Farmacy for Life, a health food store selling holistic supplements like black seed oil, Irish sea moss, and oregano oil, products that make wellness accessible to communities that don’t have a Whole Foods on the corner. The store, based in Scarsdale, New York, has been called hip hop’s first natural health food store.
In 2024, the brands began rebranding under a new umbrella. The juice bars are transitioning to Juices 2 Heal, with a new location in White Plains that had its grand opening in June 2024, attended by local politicians including Congressman Jamaal Bowman and New York Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins.
Adjua has also launched her own solo venture: Signature By Adjua Styles, a clean beauty lip line featuring vegan matte red lipsticks. It’s a smaller play than the wellness business, but it’s entirely hers.
The thread connecting all of it is Adjua’s influence. She was raised on this stuff. Styles has credited her as the reason he went plant-based at all, which happened over two decades ago, and her culinary background and health knowledge shaped the menu, the mission, and the expansion strategy behind Juices for Life. Styles announced his retirement from solo music in part to focus on these ventures full-time. Adjua isn’t behind the scenes of that decision. She’s the reason the second act exists.
A Marriage That Outlasted the Music
Thirty years. Through Bad Boy, through Ruff Ryders, through jail time and infidelity and the unimaginable loss of a child. Styles P and Adjua Styles didn’t just stay married—they built a life that kept evolving after the music slowed down. Juice bars in food deserts. A health store that serves the community they came from. A book that turns private grief into something other parents can hold onto.
Adjua Styles is not a footnote in someone else’s biography. She’s the co-architect of the whole thing.
