"Like Dat" is the debut single by rapper
Stat Quo
Stanley Bernard Benton (born July 24, 1978), better known as Stat Quo, is an American rapper and record producer.Shaheem Reid (January 12, 2004).Mixtape Mondays: Stat Quo" '' MTV''. Accessed February 5, 2008. Benton worked his way to college an ...
, released in 2005. It was originally intended to be the debut single for his long-awaited debut album,
Statlanta
''Statlanta'' is the debut studio album by Atlanta rapper Stat Quo. First recorded and set to be released in 2003, under Shady Records, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records with mentors Eminem and Dr. Dre as executive producers, it wa ...
but after the album was reworked three times the original version of the album was scrapped. It was later released for the soundtracks to ''NBA Live '06'' and ''Midnight Club 3: Remix Soundtrack''. It was also featured on the ''Trill-N-True Certified'' and ''The Bottom'' mixtapes on
iTunes. It peaked at #35 on ''
Billboard
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'' magazine's
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales
The Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart ranks the most popular R&B and hip hop songs in the United States and is published weekly by ''Billboard''. Rankings are based on a measure of radio airplay, sales data, and streaming activity. The chart had 100 ...
component chart.
Music video
The music video was filmed and produced in
Atlanta, Georgia
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, the video includes cameos from
Ludacris
Christopher Brian Bridges (born September 11, 1977), known professionally as Ludacris (, homophonous with 'ludicrous' in American English), is an American rapper, actor, record producer and record executive.
Born in Champaign, Illinois, Ludac ...
,
Young Buck
David Darnell Brown (born March 15, 1981), best known by his stage name Young Buck, is an American rapper. He heads his own record label, Cashville, and was a member of the former hip hop group G-Unit.
Early life
Brown was born in Nashville, Te ...
and
Bun B
Bernard James Freeman (born March 19, 1973), known professionally as Bun B, is an American rapper. He is best known as one half of the southern rap duo UGK (UnderGround Kingz), a group he formed in 1987 alongside Pimp C. Aside from his work wit ...
of
UGK
UGK (short for Underground Kingz) was an American hip hop duo from Port Arthur, Texas, formed in 1987, by Chad "Pimp C" Butler and Bernard "Bun B" Freeman. They released their first major-label album, ''Too Hard to Swallow'', in 1992, followe ...
.
Charts
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales=35
2005 singles
American hip hop songs
Song recordings produced by Eminem
Song recordings produced by Dr. Dre
Shady Records singles
Aftermath Entertainment singles
Interscope Records singles
Songs written by Eminem
Songs written by Dr. Dre
2005 songs
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