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Producer Stephen "Static" Garrett Dies
Contributed by: Tonya Pendleton
Source: bet.com
Posted on: February 26, 2008 12:48 PST
Filed under: R&B

Static Major

Producer Stephen "Static Major" Garrett, creator of many of the hottest R&B songs of the last decade, has died. The 32-year-old producer/artist from Louisville, Kentucky, best known for his work with Timbaland  as well as his own career with the group Playa, has apparently died of a brain aneurysm, reports say.

The prolific producer, songwriter and artist got his star with Jodeci's Devante Swing in the Swing Mob production group. That group would include future superstars Ginuwine, Missy and Timbaland, who Static went on to collaborate with most notably on Ginuwine and Aaliyah's  projects.

Garrett was also a member of the group Playa, a R&B group who hit with "Cheers to You" in 1988. At the time of his death, Garrett was working on another album to be entitled Suppertime. The first single "I Got My" features Lil' Wayne.

Among the major hits Static wrote lyrics for are Aaliyah's "Are You That Somebody" and "Try Again" Ginuwine's "So Anxious" and "Pony" Nas and Ginuwine's "You Owe Me" Pretty Ricky's On the Hotline" and Truth Hurts' "Addictive."

Fans and friends have poured out condolences via Garrett's MySpace page. One says: "There is no doubt in my mind that this would have been the year that you took over the whole game." 

In his bio, Garrett said "I actually come from the streets and I hang in the streets. That's where I draw my inspiration. If it can't be played in the hood, then it just doesn't work for me. And nobody can hold me on harmony. My whole aura is not your typical R&B aura."

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Posted By: Gabriela
Date: Thu, Aug 28, 2008 08:39:21 PDT
i miss you very much :(((

Posted By: Gabriela
Date: Thu, Aug 28, 2008 08:38:41 PDT
i`m so sad very sad :((

Posted By: Gabriela
Date: Thu, Aug 28, 2008 08:37:21 PDT
I love you Static Major i love you very much :((((

Posted By: Justin G
Date: Fri, May 23, 2008 08:16:57 PDT
Static had a concert and he kept holding his head. i now i know why. Rip buddy. we will miss you

Posted By: farrena
Date: Fri, May 9, 2008 09:55:04 PDT
I read that he is dead very soon and I could not believe that. I am from Bulgaria and I know him mostly from the song with Aaliyah "Loose rap", it's a great song. I feel so bad. It seems like everybody dies. So sad!

Posted By: BADxg
Date: Thu, Apr 24, 2008 06:18:16 PDT
its so sad dat he died one second i was watchin his new video wid lil wanye in it and at the end of the song in memory of static

R.I.P static

Posted By: Deneenj
Date: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 09:44:19 PDT
It´s unfortunate to lose someone who is to me a icon that had the love and compassion for music. Static was a very talented singer and songwriter and will be missed, his legacy will live on through his son and his music. My condolences, prayers and deepest sympathy goes out to his family and friends. Rest In Peace Static

Posted By: Destiny
Date: Sat, Apr 12, 2008 07:43:26 PDT
We will miss you very much I am sure that you are having a good time in Heaven,I really love your music videos i am still
watching them too I just wanted to say that you are missed so much and when I heard the bad news I cried so much,well I gotta go peace.
R.I.P (STATIC)

Posted By: tee
Date: Fri, Apr 11, 2008 10:15:27 PDT
may god bless you and your family baby girl has her arms around you makening music up there with the lord, keep makeing good music in heaven we are listening down here R.I.P. you and baby girl. love both of you.

Posted By: nunu
Date: Fri, Apr 11, 2008 05:18:27 PDT
we all miss u peace

Posted By: aunshala
Date: Thu, Apr 3, 2008 09:41:40 PDT
R.I.P stephen garrett u will forever be missed, the music want stop. hell im still listening to your cd. that was suppose to come out. LOVE YA <3

Posted By: chantelle
Date: Wed, Apr 2, 2008 11:06:38 PDT
now I remember seeing him in the Aaliyah video when she died, but still haven't heird his music befor. I miss static

Posted By: SPANKY
Date: Thu, Mar 27, 2008 09:02:25 PDT
stat was a ride or die dood. this aint rite man gotta die young but it was his time to go up high callin from the heavens. LET'S GIT IT!!!!!!
R.I.P. LIVE IN DA SKY DOOD.
(My nigg (static)

Posted By: chantelle
Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 09:36:28 PDT
I didn't know him, until I saw video lollipop. I can't beleave that he died he was cute. when I saw him in the video I wanted to get to know him better, but no he died. R.I.P. STEPHEN STATIC MAJOR GARRETT

Posted By: Pam G.
Date: Mon, Mar 3, 2008 05:52:50 PST
it's so unfair that you had to leave us so suddenly. you are so loved, and will be so sorely missed. Godspeed, and rest in eternal peace.

Posted By: Heather Garrett-Harriman
Date: Thu, Feb 28, 2008 07:09:07 PST
I cant believe that he is gone. I remember the first time that I met him at his mothers home in Louisville. He and my brother played the keyboard together. It is so sad that we could not be closer and that he deid so young.

Posted By: Tammy Jackson Mason
Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 08:49:09 PST
I remember Steve as Little Steve from church. I watched him grow up and sing on the church choir. Steve was real no matter how large he was he still remembered where he came from and he treated everyone with respect. God has truely called one of his angels home.

Posted By: Erica
Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 11:52:22 PST
wow we have lost yet another great talent. Heaven is singing right now. Static is up there w/ Aaliyah, Luther, Gerald, Left Eye, James Brown etc. I would rather be where he is now than continue to live in this hell we call Earth. Don't cry for Static he is in eternal rest. Cry for ourselves because we are living on borrowed time. Get your lives right.

Posted By: KeKe
Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 05:56:00 PST
Wow...when I heard about it yesterday my heart was truly broken. Certainly we have lost one of the best R&B/hip-hop producers of the last decade, but Heaven has gained another Angel. Give "Baby Girl" Aaliyah a kiss 4 us...I feel that only the best was yet to come...rest in peace, and "Cheers 2 U".

Posted By: GT & AG and the entertainment Garnett Entertainment Staff
Date: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 08:32:46 PST
Will be remembered, we send our best to his family and other friends.

Posted By: Philly Fan
Date: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 06:36:48 PST
Hello I wanted to correct your mistake, it was a hit in 1998 not 1988. One thing that can be said also was Christ was the center of the essence of his gift of singing and songwriting

Posted By: lucky
Date: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 05:25:26 PST
R.I.P. Static

Posted By: Jan Durr
Date: Tue, Feb 26, 2008 01:12:45 PST
I knew Stephen well. What a wonderful person inside and out. I will miss him deeply. My prayer are with his wife and son, and all those special friends that will miss him as deeply as I do. God Bless.


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