Discovered in the late 2000s by Rihanna producers Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers who had formed a joint-venture publishing agency with Universal Music Publishing Group and were looking for songwriters, Hodge was quickly signed to a publishing deal alongside artist Shontelle.[2] In 2011, Hodge executive-produced Gibson's album Open Invitation, co-writing and producing minor R&B hit singles "Stay", "Too Easy", and "Best of Me", ultimately creating 12/14 songs on the original project. Hodge was nominated alongside Gibson for the project in the Best R&B Album category (as main producer) at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.
In 2016, Hodge co-wrote and co-produced "No Limit", the lead single for Usher's project Hard II Love.[3][4] The single peaked in the top 10 of the R&B charts and Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Hodge's biggest hit to date. After contributing five songs to 2016 Tank album Sex Love & Pain II, Hodge was commissioned for Tank's weekly-summer-release EP project #TankTuesdays, producing first installment "No Drugs", second installment "For Life", and third installment "All About You".[5][6][7] In 2017, Hodge was praised by pop culture publication Vulture for his numerous "current but faintly retro" creations on Mary J. Blige album Strength of A Woman, describing his work (as well as the contributions of fellow producer Darhyl Camper) as "tasteful but buoyant, [and] right on time without necessarily straining to conform to the times."[8]
In 2023, Hodge produced Gibson single "Don’t Think You Ever Loved Me" featuring musicians Lenny Kravitz and Le'Andria Johnson, which climbed into the Top 10 on Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay Chart, becoming Gibson's first top 10 hit in nearly seven years.[9] Hodge-produced single "Love Transaction" followed several months later, debuting in the Top 30 of the Adult R&B Airplay Chart.[10][11]
