Well, I wouldn’t say from scratch because it’s a replay, but it’s all original. Every time he hits, it’s like, “Hey, send me a pack,” or, “Pull up.” That situation was a pull-up situation. We’ve always had a great working relationship over the years. He had called me to the studio, literally, to do that record. That’s one that I definitely go back and listen to all the time. Sometimes, it needs to be a little bit different just so it can be tailor-made. That was another learning lesson for me because we tend to want it to come out exactly like we envision. Some of the runs Jeremih was doing were Jeremih runs, and she had to interpret it for herself. There were a couple of parts that were different from the original because she wanted to make it her own. She was like, “I need this.” I was like, “It’s yours.” I left her with the record. I played that song, and she lost her mind. I got this Jeremih record that would be crazy for you.” She was super open. I think my management at the time set up a session for me to get in with Keyshia. We were just making songs for the sake of making songs. That was during the time when we were super locked in. It kinda let me know, maybe it was foreshadowing in a way, that I’m going to be able to bring people out of their comfort zone and try new things. To really give him a rap joint, like a Down South, ATL kind of snap, it was different. To me, honestly, it was different for Musiq Soulchild. I guess somehow some way that song was originally for India.Arie. I sent this one beat, and ironically, he had told me that he was working on India.Arie’s album at the time. I was giving him beats for whatever he was working on. When we went to Music House, we walked through and saw all these plaques - Ciara, India.Arie, Jamie Foxx, etc. He was the first person that I can say I knew as a producer that was actually doing things. He had owned this studio called Music House. We worked at the studio with this guy named Dru Castro. He lived in Atlanta, so I would go visit him. Musiq Soulchild – “Radio” from On My Radio In Rated R&B’s interview with Bongo ByTheWay, the Nigerian producer shares his memories behind seven songs he’s worked on. Throughout the years, he has produced songs for a range of R&B and hip-hop artists, including Beyoncé, Trey Songz, Tank, Jeremih, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar and more. Upon graduation, Bongo moved to Los Angeles to focus on his music career. I finished school for my parents to kind of let them know that I appreciate them.” It meant so much to them for me to have an education. So, I really just just so that they wouldn’t have wasted their money and their time. “They sat me down and were like, ‘Look, this is expensive, so finish this right now or we’re going to have to figure something out. He admits there was a moment when he wanted to drop out, but his parents insisted that he finished. “If you know anything about Nigerian households, they are very education-oriented,” says Bongo, who went on to study psychology at the University of North Florida. As he continued to hone in on his craft, seven years later, at 18, Bongo secured his first major placement: “Radio,” the lead single from Musiq Soulchild’s fifth album, OnMyRadio (more on that later).Įven though Bongo landed an impressive placement, it wasn’t enough for his parents. Though his skill set wasn’t at the desired level, he knew that he found his passion through producing. “I realized that the stuff that I was making wasn’t exactly on the same level of the stuff that I listened to and I wanted to make,” he says. He remembers how he produced his first beat, which he describes as noise. He’s a bit sluggish from an all-night studio session. I started making beats because of that,” Bongo tells Rated R&B over a Zoom call. “I realized you can’t use other people’s beats, which was a smart thing at a young age. By age 11, he began experimenting with making beats. He soon realized that he needed beats to rap over. Before Uforo “Bongo ByTheWay” Ebong became a platinum-selling producer, he was a pre-teen with a natural knack for music.
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