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. 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. 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". 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." 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. Hodge-produced single "Love Transaction" followed several months later, debuting in the Top 30 of the Adult R&B Airplay Chart. ==Selected songwriting and production credits==