Realest To Do It

Back From The Dead  (Instrumental)

Unsolved (Instrumental)

Listen to the Masters

Reflections

Tackling a list of stereotypes that prescribe what men and women are supposed to be, LXVNDR and Phoenix Pagliacci join Ghettosocks in squaring off against every outdated social standard imaginable. Male bravado, gender reveals, sexism, old fashioned constructs and boomer-era expectations are just some of many topics that the trio puts it on blast as they challenge played out norms and encourage people to rise up with open minds.

Be A Mango

Be A Mango Feat. PHoenix Pagliacci & Lxvndr)

Industry Shkit

CHKN CHOP

CHKN CHOP (Feat. Tachichi & UFO Fev)

Smoove Regardless (Feat. Ambition & Justo The MC)

John McEnroe

John McEnroe (Feat. Kxng Wooz & Timbuktu)

Baggage

DK & Ghettosocks are thrilled to announce their first track for 2022, titled “What It Seems” from their collaborative album titled Listen to the Masters, out on May 20th via Black Buffalo Records and Fat Beats.

“What It Seems” provides soulful vibes while melodic strings dance over a funky beat as Ghettosocks, Skyzoo and Rome Streetz pull back the curtain on life and shed light on the current state of politics, social economics, crime, poverty and injustice. The result is a track that’s less about life being a bitch and more about how life is like a never-ending game of chess — and the ones that win are the ones that never stop making moves.

What It Seems

What It Seems (Feat. Skyzoo & Rome Streetz

A PROMISE NOT TO STING

Cesar Comanche & Poe Mack - Confinement (Produced by DK)

Wren Kelly - Wounds ft. Ray Reaves (Produced by DK)

Flaunting Imperfections

bRavenous - All Those Ft. Ghettosocks & Sadat X (Produced by DK)

The Musalini - Peach

Kidaf - Today (Produced by DK)

Don't Trip

Aquakultre - I'm For Real w. DK ft. Ransom, DJ Uncle Fester

Don't Take It Personal

Demo track for "Memphis Breaks" (Premium Drum Breaks) - the soul of a Memphis, now in your DAW

Memphis Breaks Demo track

This is the single to my 2-track EP featuring Justo
Chorus: Kookoo
Produced by DK
Mixed by Matt Fudge

Oxygen Ft. Justo & Kookoo [Clean]

Soul Expressions

Coltranes of the Movement ft. Aquakulture, Timbuktu, Ghettosocks

Coltranes of the Movement ft. Aquakultre, Timbuktu & Ghettosocks

Keep It Real ft. Justo the MC

Keep it Real ft. Justo the MC

DK’s Sex Cymbols and Seductive Percussion is your one stop toolbox for royalty-free jazz percussion samples. This library of organic percussive sounds contains a wealth of tones, timbres and textures to spread out beneath, above and throughout your drum tracks. A selection of 81 live percussion one shot samples and 20 loops that can be used as-is (dry) or you can add some flavorful fx to meet your production needs.

From resonant sleigh bells to unique sparkling finger cymbal samples, this sound pack contains a huge variety of vintage percussive flavours, ready and waiting to be injected straight into your next production!
Expect to find the following percussive instrument samples into both the “one shot” and “Perc loops” folders:

● Chimes
● Sleigh bells
● Finger Cymbals
● Rides
● Triangles
● Strung Bells
● Flex-a-
● Tone
● Various Cymbal Swells
● Metal
● Glass
● Elephant Bells
● Various Bell Clusters
● Woodblocks

From golden-era hip-hop to downtempo, these characterful samples will shine and shimmer through a huge range of musical settings.

All sounds included are compatible with any DAW or sample (44.1k). All loops are BPM labeled.

DK Presents: Sex Cymbols and Seductive Percussion (Sample Pack)

What would the banging yet smooth beats of DJ Premier, Pete Rock, and the sonic architects of ’90s boom-bap sound like today? Nova Scotian-based producer Darrell Kelloway aka DK has answered that question with his warm, analog-meets-digital hybrids of wistful yet modern boom-bap. Dust-coated samples of funk, soul, jazz, and more fuse with live instrumentation in his thumping scores, evoking images of vibrant graffiti murals on subway cars and unforgettable summer park jams that somehow exist in decades past and now. Listen to the Masters (Black Buffalo Records/Fat Beats), his new collaborative album with veteran Canadian MC Ghettosocks, is another brilliant entry in his progressive catalog. As Ghettosocks and a cast of revered rappers stimulate your mind, DK’s head-nodding beats hit your soul.

“I want people to feel good when they hear my music,” DK says. “I want to transport them back to a time that makes them feel good.”

Born and raised in Newfoundland, Kelloway grew up being audibly transported by his father’s eclectic vinyl and CD collections. His grandmother taught him the basics of the organ, but those notes couldn’t compete with DMX’s bark and Dr. Dre’s cinematic g-funk. In love with hip-hop at first listen, a teenaged Kelloway then discovered A Tribe Called Quest, Pete Rock, Kanye West, and more hip-hop artists whose music appealed to his affinity for jazz and soul. He didn’t know it then, but these foundational influences would shape his sound as DK.

Kelloway became obsessed with making beats in college. He spent every waking hour outside of class on Fruity Loops, learning his craft one sample and drum break at a time. Chasing a grittier and more vintage aesthetic, he purchased an MPC and began developing his meticulous amalgam of vinyl sampled drums, analog synthesizers, dusty loops, and other live instrumentation. 

Local producers and MCs applauded Kelloway’s early work, but he made his proper debut with 2019’s Soul Expressions, a bumping yet mellow 10-track EP that showcased the DK signature with a tight roster of Canadian rappers such as Ghettosocks, Aquakultre, and Timbuktu, as well as features from New York spitter Justo The MC and Atlanta-based Cam James. The positive local reception propelled Kelloway and Justo to complete their joint This is Me, which became a trending project on AudioMack. 

Listen to the Masters is the culmination of Kelloway’s career thus far, featuring his most ambitious and forward-thinking production. After he and Ghettosocks’s friendship became an artistic kinship, they spent two pandemic-restricted years completing the album and recruiting features from venerated grandmasters like CL Smooth, El Da Sensei, Moka Only, and Skyzoo as well as rising stars like Rome Streetz. While Ghettosocks worked with his fellow MCs, Kelloway collaborated with local musicians to bring an analog swagger to beats like “Baggage,” where stirring saxophone accents plaintive piano keys and skull-cracking drums. Listen to the Masters ushers in a new era of crate-digging hip-hop and incisive lyricism while establishing Kelloway as one of Canada’s brightest producorial talents. In DK’s hands, the ’90s are now.

DK (Music Producer)

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