Scoe needed a change. The artist formerly known as Roscoe had been on a major label, releasing the acclaimed Young Roscoe Philaphornia album on Capitol Records in 2003 and steadily touring and collaborating with his older brother Kurupt. But in 2005, Scoe was in a serious car accident. After his rehabilitation, the DPG rapper returned with the I Luv Cali album in 2006 and The Frank and Jess Story collaborative release with Kurupt two years later. But something didn’t feel right, so he turned to ghostwriting, penning songs with and for Puffy, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg and Warren G, among others. “When I started ghostwriting for people, it was more about a competitive thing,” Scoe says. “I wanted to be a better rapper. It took me back to when I first started rapping. I was in competition with myself to write a better rap. It took me back to that perspective and got me out of the artist mode of being like, ‘My opinion is the dopest and everything I say is hot.’ It put me in the perspective of, ‘Let me listen. Scratch that. Let me start over and constantly keep working to be better.’