House Shoes is a diehard. A simultaneous gatekeeper and torchbearer for Detroit, the city’s music, the legacy of Dilla and the essence of Hip-Hop. When thinking of “real Hip-Hop,” this guy was one of the first people whose mind I wanted to probe to see what he listens to when he’s not in charge of selecting songs to rock a crowd.
Sidebar: Technically, Shoes doesn’t even own and iPod (he does occasionally add songs to his BlackBerry so he can listen while on the go). Not that it matters; Shoes lives and breathes music.
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MarvWon – “The Way It Goes”
Marv is like my lil brother. Y’all know how he goes in on the battle scene, but his best songs are introspective real life shit. I’m always telling him he needs to do more joints like this.
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Quelle – “Blue Mondays”
Quelle is a fucking monster. This joint is what sold me on him. “Sell coke to white folks…” Shit makes me wanna kick a puppy.
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Freeway – “When They Remember”
Stimulus Package is nutso. Made me go back to this joint i was playing the shit out of a couple years ago. May be my favorite Free joint. Soundtrack to some taking over the world type shit.
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Moe Dirdee – “You Don’t Belong In Detroit”
Moe is one of my hometown favorites as of late. This is some classic Detroit shit talk right here.
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Drake – “Successful/Say What’s Real”
Fuck y’all hippity-hop fucks who say Drake ain’t dope. He is. These are my favorite kind of joints he comes with. I listened to “Successful” for two and a half hours straight the first time I heard it. And skipped Wayne’s verse for the majority.
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Mayer Hawthorne – “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out” (Astronote El Camino Remix)
My life’s soundtrack right now. Astronote beat the brakes off this shit.
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Nottz – “Shine So Brite”
Nottz. Period. HEAT.
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Strong Arm Steady Feat. Phonte – “Best Of Times”
This shit just makes you feel good. Phonte destroyed the hook. The shit needs to be on MTV.
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The Roots – “Donuts (Outro)”
?uest and The Roots recently covered a gang of Dilla joints. This may be my favorite. Shit slaps hard as hell. Well done, Ahmir.
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Outkast – “E.T.(Extraterrestrial)”
This joint stays in the clip. One of my favorite songs in life. Period.
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*waits for it*
thanks for turning me onto this cat. That Marvwon tape was awesome.
love these posts
*waits for Sherm & Trill Smith to drop a positive comment in this post*
freeway’s “when they remember” is on my blackberry too! makes me think of my nigga locked down. weird.
Prayers for Guru …
Strong Arm Steady Feat. Phonte – “Best Of Times”
This shit just makes you feel good. Phonte destroyed the hook. The shit needs to be on MTV.
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I second that.
I said POSITIVE! Remember The Golden Rule! Play nice!
Hi, Shoes! A great list you got here. Glad to see Outkast doesn’t fade for anyone.
I really do love this man. He’s done more good for music and community than most will ever know. Anyone who speaks sideways about him does me and many other people a disrespect as well. So I guess that makes me a cock sucking faggot. *Chappelle shrug* Sweet.
I don’t care how much someone knows about music or has contributed to this or that if they give off the type of negative energy that this douche has. I mean there are artists who’ve passed that I hold in high esteem (Tupac, Kurt Cobain, etc.) but my priorities aren’t even close to worrying about what so & so says about them or how their likeness is used on a non-commercial mixtape (ol’ boy must need to get laid or something). Don’t get me wrong I am not a Charles Hamilton fan (had potential but eventually drove it off a cliff the past year or so), but god damn did this d-bag lose complete credibility in my book when all that Charles Hamilton/J-Dilla exec producer bullshit go down. Do you think J Dilla would of wanted some naive 20 year-old fan of his to be threatened w/ violence when he simply made a misguided attempt to pay homage to him? Give me a fuckin break. Fuck this clown and the negative/violent bullshit he spews.
Stim Pack is dope…& Freeway has his own stamp. A U.S. Postage stamp. I’m not lying, lol
I’mma look for that Mayer Hawthorne remix. O.G. Version is dope to me.
I have to admit, I listened to that Drake song back-to-back-to-back as well, cuz the overall sound/vibe was different and dope to me.
I can spin “Successful” all day long. That & “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” = the new age gettin’ money soundtracks lol.
Quelle/Crown Nation are dope! Do yourself a favor and cop “Blue Mondays” and “Slut Bag Edition”.
I remember hearing this one Quelle joint. Boom-bap neck snappin’ shit.
me and shoes are fam… but i can not understand how you can tolerate that Drake bullshit. hes the fresh prince of toronto x lil wayne. smh.
That MarvWon joint is the same instrumental Danny Brown used…. I wonder who’s it was first…
My co-worker ruined the “Successful” joint for me. He would sing the chorus all jacked up, with words either missing or rearranged, and off-key lol
wait…
no charles hamilton?
Crown Nation is the truth!
Crown Royal bags too
awesome post. love the songs. i’m a team player.
Never heard of Quelle, but that song bangs.
“Successful” = Classic IMO.
Freeway – “When They Remember” is one of my favorite Freeway tracks of all time. That BTW was one of the most slept on albums of that year.
I think I remember seeing him spin at St. Andrews like 5-6 years ago. I think he was warming up for somebody. (Maybe Amp Fiddler?) You played Bob James – Nautilus. I was geeked.
Clean selection. Good choices, clearly a true music fan.
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