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<tr><th>Origin</th><td>Atlanta, Georgia</td></tr><tr><th>Years active</th><td>2003-present (solo)</td></tr><tr><th>Genres</th><td>Rap</td></tr><tr><th>Labels</th><td>Shady/Aftermath/Interscope Records</td></tr>

Stat Quo

Stat Quo (born Stanley Benton July 24, 1979) is an Atlanta-based artist signed to Eminem's Shady Records and Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment. He has been generating mixtape buzz since 2002.^{[citation needed]} He is also a part of Grown Man Music, a record label he founded with LT Moe. Stat Quo attended University of Florida, where he majored in economics, before pursuing a rap career.

His debut album Statlanta was expected to be released in 2006, but has inexplicably been repeatedly pushed back. Stat Quo is also featured on Young Buck's Straight Outta Cashville, Eminem's Eminem Presents The Re-Up" and on the track "Spend Some Time" on Eminem's Encore. Stat has appeared on tracks with artists such as Jermaine Dupri,The Alchemist, The Game and Chamillionaire.

Stat Quo recently shot a video for his club banger entitled "Like Dat." The video was shot in Atlanta's Zone 3 near the Thomasville Heights projects where Stat Quo once resided.

The Atlanta bred rapper was featured on the summer 2005 Anger Management Tour which also featured Eminem, 50 Cent, G-Unit, Obie Trice, D12, and others. The Aftermath/Shady debut album Statlanta is still in the works.

On July 13 2005, the tour bus carrying Eminem's entourage (including newly appointed DJ Alchemist) for the summer's Anger Management tour swerved off the road and turned over. Stat Quo, who was listed on the accident report by his real name, Stanley Benton, was taken to Independence Regional Health Center in Independence, Missouri, where he was treated and released. <ref>[1]</ref>

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."^{[citation needed]}

1 History
2 Discography
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

Stanley is a University of Florida Fisher School of Accounting Graduate where he maintained a 3.45 GPA. He deferred going to Law School to pursue a career in music.^{[citation needed]}