During a recent interview with HipHopDX, rapper/producer Stat Quo discussed working on "Detox" with Dr. Dre, and detailed his exasperation and worry that his hard work would never see the light of day.
"I just felt like 'Detox' was not going to come out," the Atlanta emcee recalled. "I was writing so much music and doing so much sh*t and my frustration with it not coming out began to effect me and Dre's relationship. I became frustrated to the point where I had become bitter about working."
He also revealed that Interscope boss Jimmy Iovine considered the "Detox" team to be the "greatest practice team of all time," as they were creating so much banging music that quite possibly nobody but them would ever get to enjoy. Stat says it was almost too much to bear.
"I started getting frustrated with it. The mental strain on me and not having my album come out, sh*t started hitting me. I just distanced myself and stopped coming around.”
Stat decided to leave the label and return home to Atlanta, but it he soon got a call from Iovine asking him to return to L.A. and pick up where they left off. The call couldn't have come at a better time, as Stat says he was in a bad way financially. However, it wasn't long before the uncertainty and frustration returned.
“We went to Hawaii to work. Game was working with him. We’re just working and doing all this music and it feels like I came back into the same sh*t I left and we’re just recording new songs everyday. It’s like, ‘Yo, this sh*t is never going to come out. It’s never going to come out. Why am I doing this?’
Moving on, Stat recalled how TDE CEO Top Dawg convinced him to give Dre a call after the two had a bit of a falling out.
"I called [Dre] and I was like, ‘Yo, I just want to tell you I love you. I don’t know if you know it or not.’ He was like, ‘What? Man, come to the studio, man!’ I went to the studio and he’s playing the Jon Connor sh*t and we just caught up.”
Source: hiphopdx.com
