Statik Selektah
Patrick Owen Baril (born January 23, 1982), known professionally as Statik Selektah, is an American DJ and record producer from Boston, Massachusetts. He is also the founder of Showoff Records. In 2010, he formed the hip hop group 1982, alongside American rapper Termanology.
Statik Selektah

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- Name
- Statik Selektah
- Birth Name
- Patrick Owen Baril
- Born
- 23 January 1982
- Birthplace
- Lawrence, Massachusetts, U.S.
- Education
- New England Institute of Art (BS)
- Occupation
- * Disc jockey
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- hip-hop · hip hop culture
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Patrick Owen Baril (born January 23, 1982), known professionally as Statik Selektah, is an American DJ and record producer from Boston, Massachusetts. He is also the founder of Showoff Records. In 2010, he formed the hip hop group 1982, alongside American rapper Termanology.
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Biography
Biography
He has resided in New York City since 2004.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Statik Selektah • Birth Name — Patrick Owen Baril • Born — 23 January 1982 • Birthplace — Lawrence, Massachusetts, U.S. • Education — New England Institute of Art (BS) • Genre — East Coast hip-hop • Occupation — * Disc jockey • record producer • radio personality • Years Active — 1995–present • Label — * ShowOff • Duck Down • Roc Nation • Mass Appeal • Brick Records • Website — showoffhiphop.com
Life and career
Life and career
Statik Selektah was born on January 23, 1982, in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was introduced to music at a young age, experimenting with his parents' eight-track machine, cassette recorders, and turntable. By middle school, he was already DJing school functions, but he was inspired to be a professional DJ after hearing DJ Premier and Funkmaster Flex scratch and mix records on Hot 97 in New York City. Statik began doing radio at Phillips Exeter Academy's WPEA, where he also occasionally DJ'd some of the Afro-Latino Society Parties. Naming himself DJ Statik, (the "Selektah" came later after hearing a local reggae artist say it unconsciously) he began to start to DJ at clubs and private parties up and down the New England Coast. In 2000, Selektah moved back to Massachusetts from New Hampshire to pursue an audio production degree at Boston's New England Institute of Art. Around this time, Statik started to put out his own mixtape series titled Spell My Name Right. In 2003, Statik created ShowOff Marketing, which has had clients such as Reebok, G-Unit Records, Virgin Records, Capital, Universal Records, Puff Daddy's Vote or Die campaign and many others. In 2006, Statik Selektah made Showoff into a record label and put out Termanology's Out the Gate as the labels first release. In 2007, Statik released his first LP, titled Spell My Name Right, and came out with a second Stick 2 the Script in 2009. In 2010, Statik Selektah dropped another album 100 Proof: The Hangover which reached 37 on Billboard's Heatseeker Albums Chart. Besides dropping his own albums, he also has produced on many other artist's projects. Statik currently has a show on Thursday nights on Eminem's Shade 45 XM/Sirus Radio Station. In 2009, Statik Selektah appeared on Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, featured as a DJ on the hip hop radio station The Beat 102.7. While recording with rapper Freeway on Ustream, he announced a song off his next album, Population Control, called "Groupie Love" which features Mac Miller. This track was included on the final release of the album in 2011. Since 2015, the publishing interest of Statik Selektah's catalog has been represented by Reservoir Media Management. In May 2017, Statik announced with Billboard that he signed a management deal with Roc Nation plus announcing his eighth studio album titled 8. It was later released on December 8, 2017. On November 27, 2020, Statik released his ninth studio album titled The Balancing Act, featuring collaborations with Joey Badass, Black Thought and Bun B. On December 13, 2024, Statik released a collobrative studio album titled Once in a Blue Moon featuring collaborations with Kota the Friend, Logic, and Phearnone.
Past and present radio stations
Past and present radio stations
• WPEA 90.5fm – Exeter, NH (1996–1998) • WERS 88.9fm – Boston, MA (2000) • WBOT 97.7fm – Boston, MA (2001–2004) • WBLX – Mobile, AL (2005–2009) • KMJJ – Shreveport, LA (2006–2008) • Shade 45 Sirius/XM New York City (2005–present) • KDON 102.5fm – Santa Cruz, CA (2009–2011) • WJMN 94.5fm – Boston, MA (2008–2011)
Studio albums
Studio albums
• Spell My Name Right: The Album (2007) • Stick 2 the Script (2008) • 100 Proof: The Hangover (2010) • Population Control (2011) • Extended Play (2013) • What Goes Around (2014) • Lucky 7 (2015) • 8 (2017) • The Balancing Act (2020) • Round Trip (2023) • Expensive Taste (2026)
Collaboration albums
Collaboration albums
• All in a Day's Work (with Saigon) (2009) • 1982 (with Termanology – as 1982) (2010) • 1982: The EP (with Termanology – as 1982) (2010) • The Evening News EP (with Termanology – as 1982) (2010) • Statik-Free EP (with Freeway) (2011) • Lyrical Workout (with Bumpy Knuckles) (2011) • Lord Giveth, Lord Taketh Away (with Freddie Gibbs) (2011) • State of Grace (mixtape) (with Slaine) (2011) • Well-Done (with Action Bronson) (2011) • Straight, No Chaser (with Reks) (2012) • 2012 (with Termanology as 1982) (2012) • Stereo Type (EP) (with Strong Arm Steady) (2012) • Stereo Type (LP) (with Strong Arm Steady) (2012) • Ambition (with Bumpy Knuckles) (2012) • AGE (All Green Everything): Open Season (with JFK) (2012) • Boom Bap & Blues (with Jared Evan) (2013) • The Proposal (with Ransom) (2013) • Still Blue (with Jared Evan) (2014) • Statik KXNG (with KXNG Crooked – as Statik KXNG) (2016) • Saints X Sinners (with Millyz) (2017) • Ugly Face (with Quadir Lateef) (2017) • Still 1982 (with Termanology as 1982) (2018) • Piecework (with Plays) (2019) • TrillStatik (with Bun B) (2019) • Gran Turismo (with Curren$y) (2019) • Yuck! (with Anoyd) (2019) • Give Thanks (with Paul Wall) (2019) • Powerful Music (with Stunna Gang) (2019) • Chinchilla (with Wais P) (2020) • Fresh Air (with Ufo Fev) (2020) • Rudebwoy (with CJ Fly) (2020) • The Quarantine (with Termanology as 1982) (2020) • Endless Summer (with Bobby J From Rockaway) (2020) • To Kill a Sunrise (with Kota the Friend) (2021) • Maxed Out (with Ot the Real) (2022) • TrillStatik 2 (with Bun B) (2022) • From The Horse‘s Mouth (with Nym Lo) (2023) • To See a Sunset (with Kota the Friend) (2023) • TrillStatik 3 (with Bun B) (2023) • TrillStatik 4 (with Bun B) (2024) • Once in a Blue Moon (with Kota the Friend) (2024) • A Lost Language Found (with Lukah) (2025) • Choose Or Lose (with The Musalini & Wais P) (2025) • TrillStatik 5 (with Bun B) (2025) • Machetes & Micheladas (with Coyote) (2026) • Elevator Music (with Lord Sko) (2026)
EPs
EPs
• The Pre-Game EP" (2009) • Statik Selektah's The Lost and Damned EP" (2009) • The Left-Overs (Of What's to Come…) EP (2010) • Not Dead Yet! (EP) (with Lou From Paradise) (2021) • My Mind (with Anarchy) (2023)
Instrumentals
Instrumentals
• Statik Selektah Presents: Spell My Name Right, The Instrumentals (2007) • Stick 2 The script Instrumentals (2008) • 100 Proof: The Hangover Instrumentals (2010) • Statik Selektah & Termanology are 1982 Instrumentals (2010) • Well Done: The Instrumentals (2012) • 8 Instrumentals (2017) • Mahalo (2019) • TrillStatik: Deluxe Instrumental Version (2019)
Mixtapes
Mixtapes
• The Best of A3C: Remixed by Statik Selektah (2016) • The Prophecy Vol 1 & 2 (with Nas (2004 & 2006) • The Get Lifted Mixtape (with John Legend (2004) • Spell My Name Right Vol 1-10 series (2001-2007)
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- “Statik Selektah”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q2333768: Statik Selektah
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 102952257X, Statik Selektah.
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Statik Selektah is recorded as disc jockey, record producer, radio personality and composer. Naming and authority record. Those registers additionally record the form Baril, Patrick.
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