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While Rodriguez, who was a last-minute replacement for a real TV news anchor and wrote all of his own lines, managed to get in some chatting with Beyoncé, he has yet to meet Gaga.

"I have no Gaga connection and to this day I haven't met her," he said. "She doesn't know who I am. She didn't know what I was doing on set. I could have been a [technician] for all she knew. I did my set up while they were doing the 'P---y Wagon' scenes in front of a green screen and it was weird, because it was like, 'What am I going to say?' "

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"The songs I've heard since I've been around are all really special," he continued. "It's so important to hip-hop that this record comes. It's our saving grace. A lot of the radio stations are going rhythmic and going away from certain types of urban music. You can only go to contemporary station to get certain soul-type music. The whole platform is changing. An album like his can bring a boost to the music that's going on."

Well, at least we know that Dre is busy. Stat appears in Dr. Dre's new Hewlett-Packard commercial — in the short, Dre is at the boards producing while Stat is in the vocal booth. Quo's fans have been waiting for him to put out his debut almost as long as Dr. Dre's followers have been anticipating Detox. Stat signed to Shady/Aftermath around the same time as 50 Cent, watching while 50 Cent put out an album and waited while G-Unit commandos Tony Yayo, Young Buck, Lloyd banks and Young Buck dropped. When he was finally on deck in 2007, plans for his LP were squelched once again.

"When it was time to put a record out, the powers that be [at Interscope] that keeps the lights on at the company was like, 'We need either a 50 Cent or a Dr. Dre or an Eminem record," Stat tells. "So I had to make the decision: 'OK, it's time to leave.' We parted on good terms. Initially when I first left, I was upset because I wanted to put my album out under that umbrella. At the end of the day, my relationships with Dre and Em is still intact and it's all good."

Q: Did you sing "I Feel the Earth Move" to compensate for Simon's "corny" comments the week before?

A: I totally did. I definitely was trying to find a song that would portray me as an artist, which is difficult for a singer/songwriter in this competition, because first of all, I don't listen to mainstream music, and second of all, I don't typically perform covers. So I kind of scrambled around last-minute trying to do something. I brought out the Wurlitzer keyboard .I wanted to do something edgier, and it didn't work out for me, but I definitely don't regret doing it, because I love that era.

Q: You and Lilly seemed especially emotional during the results show. Why was that?