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Darien Brockington: Listen

By Transmute

Published: April 23rd, 2006

Can We Fall in Love Again

The Hall of Justus is home to a number of superhero emcees and producers, consisting of Little Brother, L.E.G.A.C.Y., Nicolay, The Away Team, Chaundon, Joe Scudda, DJ Flash, Cesar Comanche and the headman, Big Dho. The Justus League is not just a team of hip-hop artists. There are a few soulful individuals that enhance the League’s musical presence in musical culture, and lately one of them, Darien Brockington, has been shining.

Featured on two joints on Little Brother’s The Minstrel Show, Brockington proved that he has the vocal strength to conquer his R&B opponents in the mainstream. Recently, Brockington released an EP, entitled The Feeling EP, full of soulful love ballets. The last song of the EP, “Listen,” changes the mood and tempo of its softer predecessors to a bright and upbeats jam that, if promoted correctly, could be a hit. But, who really listens to independent music, anyway?

First, the beat is ridiculous. Produced by Black Spade a.k.a. Stoney Rock, the beat fades in with a dominating electric guitar accompanied by a dipping bass line. The percussion in this song is two-fold: a simple bass drum/snare-bass drum/snare pattern overlaid with some congas, giving a Caribbean or Latin underlay that promotes some form of quick paced dancing. A soothing electric piano sound accompanies the verses. The drops in the beat during Brockington’s vocals add hype to the song.

Brockington handles the singing on “Listen” with backup vocals by Tru.Ski. The rich harmonies of the chorus, coupled with the crazy instrumental, make the song powerful. The verses, though complete with harmonic and background ad-libs, bring the energy down after the chorus in a way that does not lessen the dynamic of the song, but makes it something to groove to. Brockington plays with his words in this confession of love. The lyrics are fairly simple, and come across as a relaxed conversation between a dude and his girl.

This song and the rest of the EP are dope. At the end of the EP, the listener is left hungry for more, hoping that this man will finally bless the world with a full-length. But until then, check out what you can by the song fighting superhero Darien Brockington of the Justus League.

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The imperial emcee and devout Hip-Hop head Transmute ANS, or Tr. ANS, reps for the state of Connecticut, but chills in the Illadelph for the time being. Not one to divulge much information about himself, this is what should be known. People think he’s nice on the mic, he says different; until he is heard the question is: “is he ill?” or is he what an emcee is supposed to be? Whatever the answer is, Tr. ANS does have too many aliases, multiple personalities to go with them, and too many crews/groups that he is associated with (hence his love for Madlib and MF DOOM). As a Hip-Hop head, Tr. ANS’ mind is that of a Hip-Hop DJ, in that Hip-Hop music is not just rap music, but encompasses every genre that has influenced the culture’s music. Therefore, for Freshout, Transmute handles rap (which is called Hip-Hop on the site), funk, jazz, soul, and reggae (Kool DJ Herc baby! Respect!). Hip-Hop is such a large part of his life that he has dedicated his life to the study and development of Hip-Hop Architecture (the man has a Bachelors of Architecture degree). (It should be noted that Transmute did not make this discipline up, there are others who have dedicated time to this study.) Also, Transmutist is a music junkie. The man downloads and buys music so much that he make a crackhead look clam next to his dealer. His knowledge of music is fairly good and if he does have a particular that someone is looking for (Hip-Hop of course), he will look for it. As a Fresh Out writer, Transmute puts his “stamp of approval on every artist that he writes about, so check out his posts and the artists that he is listening to, hit him up if you want and remember to spell the man’s name right— capital “T”, lower case “r”, “dot”, “space”, capital “A”, capital “N”, capital “S”; the hardest name to spell in Hip-Hop— Tr. ANS. Casper.