It wasn't like I was just sending beats," he said. While Bongo is officially credited on 10 songs from the two albums, he also said that he played an even larger role in the framing of the project. I'm probably underestimating," Bongo said.
"Since March, we've done a lot of recording, probably over, like easily over 100 songs. Bongo said that the real work with the Game dates back to March, and that they clicked in the studio almost from the jump. For Bongo, the risk paid off and eventually led him to the Game's studio via Marcus Black, who is also featured on the album. His roots date back to the production duo L&F (Lost and Found), with his cousin C4, though they've since broken off to focus on solo projects. Though his work with the Game is probably his most extensive thus far, his catalog is already impressive, as it includes work with Musiq Soulchild, Big Sean, and Lecrae. He graduated from North Florida University in Jacksonville with a degree in psychology before ultimately deciding to pursue his dream of working in the music industry. To further understand Bongo and how he played such a big and unexpected role on this album, I reached out and spoke with him about the experience.īongo, who was born in Nigeria, revealed that he went to college in Florida after growing up in Rhode Island. There's little information about him online-he currently has fewer than 1,400 followers on Twitter-and that might be by design. Through all of that doubt though, the Game came through with not one but two solid albums, adding to the legacy of one of the greatest years in hip-hop history.Ī large part of the albums coming out the way it did was the extensive work by a producer by the name of Bongo. If you were like me, you looked at the official credits for the album and kept noticing Bongo's name as the lead producer on banger after banger, from "On Me" with Kendrick to "Dedicated" with Future. There were delays, beefs, and just about everything in between that led fans to believe that this sequel was going to disgrace the legacy that the first album established. Leading up to the release, there were plenty of questions about the Game's direction with this project and little hope that it could live up to his 2005 classic debut. One of those, or actually two in reality, is the Game's Documentary 2 and 2.5, which as he said himself, is just a double album. With new projects from Kendrick Lamar, Drake, Future, and so many more to name, it is hard to remember all of the great albums that dropped this year. 2015 has been a banner year for hip-hop that very few people probably saw coming back in January.
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