House Shoes and similar artists

Guilty Simpson - Fractured (Ft. Fat Ray)

Sounds like: Quakers, Homeboy Sandman, House Shoes

Guilty is a favorite. The flow is precise, the lyrics are granular, and the delivery booms. Detroit's Son, his collaborative LP with Australian DJ/pro...

Professor Brian Oblivion

Big Talk

Sounds like: House Shoes, Knxwledge, Tall Black Guy

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Professor Brian Oblivion has a great name. It sounds like a someone that grew up making beats in Dexter's Lab. Thankfully, those beats are dope. The...

Finale

Just Due (Ft. Homeboy Sandman & Miz Korona)

Sounds like: Invincible, Oddisee, House Shoes

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A learned hip-hop nerd knows the name Finale. The alien rhymer with the intricate, cerebral flow landed in Detroit and claimed the city as his home. M...

KONE

The March

Sounds like: Daedelus, Madlib, House Shoes

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Your boy KONE is a business man. An acclaimed producer and DJ, the well-groomed entrepreneur also heads the nascent New Los Angeles indie imprint that...

Quelle Chris

Nothing Moves

Sounds like: Chance The Rapper, Joey Bada$$, House Shoes

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Quelle Chris previews his upcoming album 2Dirt4TV3: Innocent Country with the initial leak, "Nothing Moves." The song finds Quelle balancing introspec...

Ras_G & The Koreatown Oddity

Live and Direct

Sounds like: Zeroh, House Shoes, Eagle Nebula

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Coalescing from a cloud of backwoods smoke are Ras_G and The Koreatown Oddity, formidable in their own standings but other-worldly when merged togethe...

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...

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.&...

Knxwledge

3koin[s]

Sounds like: Large Professor, Mndsgn, House Shoes

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Sometimes I forget that once in a while, when stars align and the equinox and solstice coincide and the harvest moon is in Jupiter, Knxwledge releases...

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...

Tuamie

Yellow

Sounds like: House Shoes, J Dilla, Knxwledge

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You need to know Tuamie. The young producer has a precocious mastery of bounce and rythmn. So many of his compositions seem to teeter on the edge of b...

Sean Price & M-Phazes

Bag of Shit (Ft. Loudmouf Choir)

Sounds like: House Shoes, Guilty Simpson, Roc Marciano

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How can you not love Sean Price? He's the affable, cynical thug rapper, content to stay in his lane. A Scrooge-like persona in hip-hop, fans' respect ...

The Are

Hustle

Sounds like: Shafiq Husayn, House Shoes, Cohenbeats

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Is this deja vu?Frank William Miller Jr. is an enterprising young man I met through the Internet, right around the time I met Kenny Fresh. Frank has r...

Roc Marciano

Ice Cream Man

Sounds like: Ka, House Shoes, Alchemist

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Roc Marciano never left the 90s. Not to say his sound is dated or a throwback, but the Long Island rhymer never strayed from the gutter. There are no ...