BROKN got here on other people’s songs. Lil Uzi Vert, Cage The Elephant, Kx5, Whethan: the SoundCloud page reads like a dare to find a genre he will not touch. Feel It is his own, and the remixer’s instinct is all over it.
Add both drops together and you get about a minute out of three minutes fifty. Everything else is melody, wide and warm, including the full minute between the two drops where a trap single would be reloading. That is a producer who built his name serving somebody else’s chorus and learned to like the job.
When it does hit, it hits narrow. The drop collapses to the center and gets ugly on purpose, a distorted lead with more noise in it than pitch, 808s spaced two and three beats apart under a halftime 140. Drop one sits low around a B flat. Drop two lifts it a fourth, stacks harmonics on it, and runs half again as long. I did not expect the second one to be the bigger swing and it is.
Trap Nation ran it on July 3, doing the work a label would for a producer whose catalogue is still mostly remixes. BROKN has not landed in this archive before. That middle minute is the argument. Most people building a trap single treat it as the boring stretch between the parts people came for. He treats it like the song.
