DJ House Shoes and similar artists

Sounds like: House Shoes, Madlib, Karriem Riggins

If you would have told me in 2006 that by 2016 I would actively avoid new J Dilla releases, I likely would have karate chopped everybody in the place ...

House Shoes

Dirt (Cohenbeats Remix)

Sounds like: Roc Marciano, Alchemist, Samiyam

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On a recent trip to Tel Aviv, House Shoes linked up with Michael Cohen, aka Cohen Beats. The Jewish hip-hop head is a vital part of Israel's small but...

Diamond D

Only Way 2 Go (Ft. Pete Rock)

Sounds like: Black Milk, Sky High Fly Guys, House Shoes

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Diamond D came into hip-hop with the Golden Age Avengers, Diggin' In The Crates. The crew is a bit splintered now, but most of the individuals are sti...

Black Milk

What It's Worth

Sounds like: Oddisee, Quelle Chris, House Shoes

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If it's not broke, why fix it?  Black Milk definitely has the consistency award in hip-hop, having never dropped a boring project. In the past y...

House Shoes

Sweet Ft. Danny Brown (Knxwledge Remix)

Sounds like: Clams Casino, Shlohmo, Quelle Chris

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Knxwledge and Danny Brown are both innovative artists that found a megaphone through House Shoes.  Now, on the second anniversary of Shoes' debu...

Raj Mahal

One 4 Smokey

Sounds like: House Shoes, Knxwledge, Madlib

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Every volume of DJ/producer House Shoes' The Gift series has been heat. Each volume has featured a new up-and-coming producer and has been given ...

Danny Brown

Radio Head

Sounds like: Samiyam, Quelle Chris, House Shoes

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If you have just been tuning into Pitchfork you may think Danny Brown emerged from a pool of molly water just a few years ago. In truth, the Detroit M...

House Shoes

Trauma Unit

Sounds like: Knxwledge, Mr. Porter, Jon Brion

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The last seven years has seen House Shoes morph from Detroit's musical ambassador to a one-man machine for good music without boundaries and borders.&...

Black Milk

G (Ft. Guilty Simpson)

Sounds like: House Shoes, J Dilla, Sean Price

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Black Milk isn't even cooling off from last year's stellar No Poison, No Paradise, and he's already back at it. Glitches In The Break is an EP better ...

Michael Jackson

Beat It (J. Rocc's Dill Jackson Remix)

Sounds like: Madlib, Mndsgn, House Shoes

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Dilla month is not over!After celebrating James Yancey's legacy with a playlist last week, the parade continues with J. Rocc's remixes featuring Micha...

T-White

Guide (Don't Panic)

Sounds like: House Shoes, Samiyam, Waajeed

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Detroit's DJ House Shoes is known for being a vessel of great music as much as he's known for being an impeccable DJ. He recently got an augmented pla...

Chanes

Seasnd

Sounds like: Knxwledge, Shlohmo, DJ House Shoes

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It's almost trite to say Detroit is a lynchpin for modern music, but it doesn't make it any less true. Chanes is very much from Detroit (though he now...

DertBeats

Money

Sounds like: House Shoes, Samiyam, Alchemist

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House Shoes is a DJ's DJ. Yeah, he can play records like a pro and rock a party in pretty much any environment, but like a true DJ, he knows music. Fr...

House Shoes Ft. Nottz, Oh No & MED

Last Breath

Sounds like: J Dilla, Madlib, Roc Marciano

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DJ House Shoes is a living relic of Detroit hip hop. Perennially underrated as a city, the capital of the Murda Mitten has silently been giving birth ...

DJ House Shoes

Castles (tHE SKY IS OURS) Ft. Jimetta Rose

Sounds like: J Dilla, Master Blazter, Shafiq Husayn

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Jovan Coleman was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. A self taught musician, he relocated to California in 2007 to live out his calling as a DJ, prod...