The producer, 37, did an official annotation of various lyrics for music website Genius, and added some scoop about the mother of one, reported Us magazine.
"We did a whole Fela album that didn't go up. It was right before we did 4. We did a whole different sounding thing, about 20 songs.
"She said she wanted to do something that sounds like Fela. That's why there's so much of that sound in the 'End of Time'," he said.
The "Throw It in the Bag" performer said the lost Fela album is hardly the only Beyonce recording to stay in the archives.
The-Dream, who served as a producer for Beyonce's celebrated self-titled 2013 album, gave no hint as to whether the unheard tracks will ever make it to fans.
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