Malcolm Brown is theDeeepEnd
theDeeepEnd is North Carolina’s local Spiderman, harnessing the ability to swing from emceeing one minute, and producing your hit the next. The name comes from a bar Malcolm was writing about a decade ago “y’all n*ggas shallow, I’m on the deep end”. The extra ‘e’ signifies that our hero is deeper than your average emcee and the second you press play on any of Malcolm’s work you quickly learn that the name fits. His love for music stems from the various family influences around him growing up, freestyling to Chrono Cross music, remixing songs from the radio and releasing his creative energy. The breaking point that pushed Malcolm deeep into emceeing was his cousin pressing him to freestyle after a shotty date. This would have TheDeeepEnd vigorously writing poems and freestyling to build his craft. A summer internship in Sports Journalism further confirmed Malcolm Brown was meant to create music and help others who feel trapped in the deep end.
This would send Malcolm into work mode, working on verses and singles, performing and essentially owning the North Carolina show circuit. Unfortunately, despite all the work it seemed like theDeeepEnd wasn’t making the progress he deserved, this mixed with other life issues led to depression. However, just like most heroes theDeeepEnd would rise, this time locking himself away once a week emceeing over his production with Brian Kidd & his brother Shon. The fruits of their labor would go onto create “Think Good Thoughts” which would release in 2017. An ideology he preached to friends was finally able to be expressed in art form over his own production. “Think Good Thoughts” would go on to gain Press from Super Empty Blog, The Word Is Bond, Dead End Hip Hop and other top tier publications.
The following year had theDeeepEnd continuing his prolific streak releasing singles and guest features for artists like Jay Atoms, Jooselord and others. More importantly though he would proceed to executive produce an entire project for North Carolina’s Yahweh. 2019 would come around and theDeeepEnd decided to challenge himself to release a project by the end of summer. By the beginning of September theDeeepEnd would keep his promise and release “Verano”. In some ways “Verano” was an experiment for Malcolm to form a proper release from start to finish leaving no details unmarked. The summer sounds and production mixed with theDeeepEnd’s usual honesty and braggadocio, “Verano” would end up being his most popular project to date. Malcolm landed coverage on popular North Carolina publication Indy Week and ended up being interviewed on the Bullcity Pioneers podcast.
Created on the Maschine, theDeeepEnd has produced for himself and other artists including the entirety of Yahweh’s project “Arcadia”, Jooselord, SK the Novelist and more. All of this work has put our hero on the stage with the likes of Kooley High, Pat Junior, Cyhi Da Prynce, NoName and a plethora of other artists. It doesn’t stop there with theDeeepEnd performing at marquee festivals like the Beats N Bars Festival, the Hopscotch Festival, Packapalooza and others. The accolades continue with the North Carolina standout closing in on 50K plays across SoundCloud, Spotfy and Apple Music combined.
-Written by: Michael Stover