Stat Quo reveals Getting Dropped from Aftermath After Arguing with Eminem over a Chorus.
Stat Quo recently sat down with HipHopDX for an interview on Facebook Live and he revealed a story about getting dropped from Aftermath after he argued with Eminem over a Chorus.
“There was a song called ‘Dance on It’.” Stat Quo Said. “Em wrote the chorus and Em wanted me to say the chorus. I thought it was not good. If I would have said,’Yeah, that’s it! That’s the one we going with!’ I would’ve got my album out. But I tried to be on some ‘Nah, I don’t like that, that ain’t a hit.’ I was really arguing with…the top-selling rapper of all time on what a f**kin’ his was. What a dummy idiot I was!“.
He also said that 50 Cent told him that Shady Records was on such a good roll they could have made “blank CDs go platinum.” But Stat got stubborn and insisted on changing the chorus wrote by Em.
“My exact quote was, ‘I’ll put it out if you stay on the hook.’ and then I said, ‘If you give me a million dollars, then I’ll put it out.’ “And when I said that, me and Eminem… it was a wrap! He was mad as sh*t!.” Said Stat Quo. Later Dr. Dre told him, “Yo, you made him mad“. “And Then like the next day, I like apologized with tears in his eyes .” Stat Said. “Because I’m watching my F**kin’ career go down the drain“.
“My album would have came out but I f**ked up.” Stat Quo said about Stalanta, which dropped seven years later on Big Dream Ventures records. It doesn’t feature Em or Dre in any way. Stat’s Shady years did result in seven performances on Eminem Presents: The Re-Up, a 2006 compilation album.
Stat also claims that he tried to emulate the label’s sound rather than adhering to his own. “I came in there a certain kind of way then I started trying to make music to appease them instead of trying to make music to appease the people that got me in that door…” he says. “All these people I talked about picked an identity: Game’s a Blood, 50’s a gangster, Kendrick’s an intellectual. You know who the f**k they rapping to when they rap. Stat Quo was all over the place. That’s not Dre’s fault, that’s my fault.”
Stat also discusses other unreleased Dr. Dre tracks with Jay Z, as well as more Eminem and Nate Dogg collaborations, in the interview. He comments at one point, “That vault is insane; he’s got some real s**t.” The MC also expresses his dissatisfaction with Compton, as well as his anxiety that Jon Connor’s planned Aftermath debut would not boost his career.
Statlanta, his debut album, languished on the shelf for years, according to Stat in a recent interview, because he clashed with Em about songs. Statlanta was finally released in 2010, seven years after it was scheduled to be published. It has no mention of either Em or Dre. Stat’s Shady years did result in seven performances on Eminem Presents: The Re-Up, a 2006 compilation album. In his career, Stat Quo only released two solo studio albums, Statlanta in 2010 and ATLA: All This Life Allows, Vol. 1 in 2014.
Check out his full interview below where he also talks about Dr. Dre’s latest album ‘Compton‘, The Game, 50 Cent, Kendrick Lamar, and more.
[Via: HipHopDX]
