Bugzy Malone wasn’t going to be the presenter of the new hit BBC podcast retelling the story of how GTA became one of the most popular gaming franchise in history. Writer Ciaran Tracey was thinking of using a twitch streamer, comedian or prominent gamer to host the series until he came across one of Bugzy’s most popular songs called San Andreas Mentality.
The song was an ode to the third instalment of the GTA franchise, which focuses on Carl Johnson, better known as CJ. A young man who has to return to the crime laden, gang heavy city he grew up in, called Los Santos, San Andreas.
In the song, Malone regales about his past life of crime and imprisonment that wasn’t too dissimilar to the storylines and missions on GTA San Andreas which he played as youth. “He did that in 2014, so he did not just get on this train yesterday, he’s been loving this game for a long time.," says the writer and producer of Bugzy Malone's Grandest Game, Ciaran Tracey.
