Stat Quo
Stanley "Stat Quo" Benton
Stanley "Stat Quo" Benton
Background information
Birth name Stanley Benton
Born (1978-07-24) July 24, 1978 (age 33)
Origin Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Genres Hip hop
Gangsta rap
Occupations Rapper
Years active 2003–present
Labels

Signed to Aftermath Entertainment as a songwriter. Strange Music as a rapper.

Former Artist on Shady, Aftermath & Interscope (former)
Dream Big Ventures, DD172, BluRoc (current)
Associated acts Dr. Dre, Eminem, Talib Kweli, Bobby Creekwater, Chamillionaire, Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Young Buck, Obie Trice, GLC, Ski Beatz, MayDay
Website www.statquo.com

Stanley Benton, better known as Stat Quo, is an American rapper.[1] Benton worked his way to college and attended University of Florida, where he majored in economics and international business in 2000.[1] Benton was contemplating law school, until veteran Southern rapper Scarface encouraged him to rap professionally. After 50 Cent, Stat Quo was the second artist signed to both Shady Records and Aftermath Entertainment and became Dr. Dre and Eminem's newest protégé.[2] Stat Quo was supposed to release his debut album, Statlanta, with Shady/Aftermath but, despite being made three different times, the album was never released by the labels.[3] Statlanta was finally released on 13 July 2010 by Sha Money XL's label Dream Big Ventures.

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Biography [link]

Early life [link]

Stanley Benton was born in Thomasville Heights, a neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, at Grady Memorial Hospital. In his early life, he lived with his mother and grandmother. Benton started freestyle rapping at around the age of 12. Later, his mother bought him a radio, and he would record himself rapping. In 1997, Benton started taking rap seriously, but continued with his education.[4]

Career [link]

Stat Quo was discovered towards the end of 2003. Dr. Dre and Eminem individually came to know of the Atlanta-based rapper via his Underground Atlanta mixtapes. After Eminem heard his music, he gained interest and passed it on to Dr. Dre, and a joint deal was reached, resulting in Stat Quo becoming signed.[5]

His debut album Statlanta was originally slated to be released in 2003, but was repeatedly pushed back until finally being released in 2010 but it is not the original Statlanta recorded on Shady/Aftermath.[6][7] Stat Quo is also featured on Young Buck's Straight Outta Cashville, the compilatation Eminem Presents the Re-Up and on the track "Spend Some Time" on Eminem's Encore. Stat has also appeared on tracks with artists such as Jermaine Dupri, The Alchemist, The Game, Disturbing tha Peace, and Chamillionaire. Stat Quo has said that his "number one goal is to bring a respect, and bring a voice to this whole southern movement around the world."[8]

In 2005, Stat Quo shot a video for his single Like Dat. The song was made to be a buzz single, in order to help the artist become more exposed. The video was shot in Atlanta's Zone 3 near the Thomasville Heights projects where Stat Quo was raised and explained his reason for choosing the location in an interview, stating "It's the beginning of my career, so I wanted to start where I began life, […] Plus, [the city of Atlanta] is supposed to be tearing the projects down, so I wanted to showcase the area I grew up in and capture it before it was gone forever."[9]

He was featured on the summer 2005 Anger Management Tour, which also included Eminem, 50 Cent, G-Unit, Obie Trice, D12, and others.[10] On July 13, 2005, a tour bus carrying Eminem's entourage for the summer's Anger Management tour swerved off the road and turned over. Stat Quo was taken to Independence Regional Health Center in Independence, Missouri, where he was treated and released.[11]

On April 21, 2009, Stat Quo released Smokin Mirrors, a street album, through EMI.

In October 2008, he left Aftermath Entertainment, unhappy with the release status of Statlanta. Stat Quo hoped to release the album in 2009, and promoted the album by releasing multiple mixtapes for free download in 2009, including Quo City, Checks & Balance,[12] and The Invisible Man.[13] It ended up being released on July 13, 2010.[14] He has already started working on an untitled second album.

In 2009, with distribution from The Orchard, producer Sha Money XL founded a new record label, Dream Big Ventures. Quickly upon its creation, Stat Quo was signed to the label. Statlanta was released on the label.[15][16][17]

In March 2010 Stat Quo appeared in a HP commercial alongside Dr. Dre promoting HP Beats Audio Laptops.

In 2011 Stat Quo was cited at Dr.Dre's Aftermath Entertainment website as a songwriter on Aftermath Entertainment

Discography [link]

Main article: Stat Quo discography
Studio albums
Independent albums
  • 2009: Smokin Mirrors
  • 2009: Great Depression

References [link]

  1. ^ a b Shaheem Reid (12 January 2004). "Mixtape Mondays: Stat Quo." MTV. Accessed 5 February 2008.
  2. ^ Admin for Aftermath Blog (26 October 2008)."[1]." Aftermath Entertainment. Accessed February 2011.
  3. ^ Admin for Modern Beats (6 May 2010)."[2]." Accessed February 2011.
  4. ^ Jay Casteel (5 August 2003). "Stat Quo: ATL Thoroughbreed." BallerStatus.com. Accessed 5 February 2008.
  5. ^ Matt Barone (2 December 2004). "Stat Quo: The Shady South (Interview)." BallerStatus.com. Accessed 5 February 2008.
  6. ^ Shaheem Reid, Jayson Rodriguez and Rahman Dukes (11 June 2007). "Mixtape Monday: Lil Wayne Plans His Own Leak; Cassidy's Live-From-Jail Rhymes." MTV. Accessed 5 February 2008.
  7. ^ Julianne Shepherd (11 June 2007). "FIRST SHOT: Stat Quo, "Statlanta"." Vibe. Accessed 5 February 2008.
  8. ^ AftermathMusic.com - Interview with Stat Quo September 2003
  9. ^ Jay Casteel (12 June 2005). "Stat Quo To Shoot First Video; Prepares For Anger Management Tour." BallerStatus.com. Accessed 5 February 2008.
  10. ^ Gil Kaufman (4 April 2005). "Eminem, 50, Lil Jon, G-Unit, D12 Team Up For Anger Management 3 Tour This Summer." MTV. Accessed 5 February 2008.
  11. ^ Chris Harris (14 July 2005). "Anger Management Tour Bus Crashes; Stat Quo, Eminem's DJ Among Those Injured." MTV. Accessed 5 February 2008.
  12. ^ (6 February 2009). "Stat Quo - Checks & Balance Mixtape." WeLiveThis.com. Accessed 11 April 2009.
  13. ^ (8 April 2009). "Stat Quo - The Invisible Man Mixtape." WeLiveThis.com. Accessed 11 April 2009.
  14. ^ (5 March 2010). "Stat Quo on 'Statlanta,' Eminem, Dr. Dre & 'Detox'." AllHipHop.com. Accessed 12 March 2010.
  15. ^ DJ Whoo Kid and Stat Quo signed to Dream Big Ventures
  16. ^ Big Dream Ventures Home
  17. ^ Sha Money launches new label

External links [link]
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Former artists
Releases
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Podcasts:

Stat Quo

ALBUMS

ATLA: All This Life Allows, Volume 1

Released 2014

Statlanta

Released 2010

2010

Released 2010

The Status Report

Released 2009

Underground Atlanta, Volume 4 - The Prequel to Statlanta

Released 2006

Street Status

Released 2005

Underground Atlanta Mixtape, Volume 3: Hot Sauce (Collector's Edition)

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Statlanta

by: Stat Quo

This is the future in the present
Only the best gifts should be expected
Or accepted by the masses
We toast with kool aid in our glasses
With some vodka of course
Smoking that whoopi Goldberg
With my dog jayfer
He said stat take the game like it ain't yours
And beat the track up like [? ]
I mean purple and what matters is family
And I'm urkel vision is uncanny
Real name Stanley raised next to annie
It's a hard knock life I was hoping to my granny
Nieces nephews cousins neighbours
Big momma told me I was born to get paper
Looking out the window surrounded by sky scrapers
Head in the air feeling like I made it
Switched labels you can say I've been traded
Aftermath politics I guess I've been shady
And I can't give a fuck if you hate it
But the streets lovin niggas
I'm related to the pavement
Stat quo I'm home
Every body just raise your glass (get to toastin somethin homie so welcome me back)
Welcome back welcome back (and now they welcome me back)
Everybody could you welcome me back (and ya'll can welcome me back)
Ooh (some say I was gone but I've been at home writing my rights and wrongs in song for ya'll martian)
Now I'm home now I'm home (and you can welcome me home)
Everybody would you welcome me home (welcome me home yeah)
I'm at home cause it lives in me
So Therefore I am an extension of thee
I gave back we all branch from the same tree
Eating off the same [? ]
What's ya name boy kin ta s-t-a-t
Id give up a billion if I had it
Just to let my folks free
Shout out to vick
Shout out to t.I.p
Real niggas but these cracks call them convicts
Black as fuck on my akon shit
Ridin trough the city on my twitter
Follow me bitch
Wish every hood nigga could get rich
And all their kids can go to Harvard
I guess I'm dreamin with my eyes open
Heartless like the 808
The whole worlds heart broken
And as long as the globes in motion
I'm a be floatin like the water in the ocean
I'm home
Every body just raise your glass (get to toastin somethin homie so welcome me back)
Welcome back welcome back (and now they welcome me back)
Everybody could you welcome me back (and ya'll can welcome me back)
Ooh (some say I was gone but I've been at home writing my rights and wrongs in song for ya'll)
Now I'm home now I'm home (and you can welcome me home)
Everybody would you welcome me home (welcome me home yeah)
I'm the road that arose out the concrete
Made something outta nothing if you ask me
I'm jim jonsin when the tyres and the track meets
[? ] ridin shotgun that's me in the backseat
With my fears in my rearview fuck sleep
Mind body soul voice and heart beat
I'm my people when I talk you hear the hood speak
They see themselves when they see me on the tv
When my money got funny I heard all they jokes
[? ] sense of humour lord knows I wasn't broke
Now I'm at aspen smoking kush on the slope
Middle fingr in the air
Damn right I'm home ho
Every body just raise your glass (get to toastin something homie so welcome me back)
Welcome back welcome back (and now they welcome me back)
Everybody could you welcome me back (and ya'll can welcome me back)
Ooh (some say I was gone but I've been at home writing my rights and wrongs in song for ya'll)
Now I'm home now I'm home (and you can welcome me home)
Everybody would you welcome me home (welcome me home yeah)




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