London Bridge

Album: Twenty88 (2016)
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Songfacts®:

  • Key Wane helmed this track, which appears on Big Sean and Jhené Aiko's collaboration EP Twenty88. Wane and Sean first met as teenagers in high school, and have since joined forces on every one of the Detroit rapper's albums. He's also produced for Aiko, including her Souled Out tune, "Eternal Sunshine."

    Wane also supplied the beat for the Twenty88 tracks "Déjà Vu" and "On the Way."
  • Key Wane's instrumentation for this goes back a long way. He told MTV News: "I made that beat back in college. That's how it was with [Beyonce's] " Partition." I made that in college.

    For 'London Bridge,' I had just got this new sound pack, and I was f--king with these choir sounds, around the same time I made 'Dumb' for Jazmine Sullivan."
  • Sean and Aiko did some work on each other's projects before forming Twenty88. Their chemistry wasn't just mutual: Around the time the album was released, they became a couple. They were together on and off over the next few years but by 2021 they seemed committed, often appearing together on social media and in real life. They had son together named Noah Hasani in 2022.

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