
During a tour in December 2012 with the folks at Blisswave , I got to see my old friend and mentor DJ House Shoes in different environments. Equally comfortable in old spots, like San Francisco and Seattle, or new settings like Sacramento, Shoes let his encyclopedic knowledge of hip-hop, beats and all things Dilla lead to amazing solo sets as well as support for Guilty Simpson, the tour's only MC. Whether spinning his own beats or getting Guilty to spit familiar verses over unreleased Dilla tracks, Shoes proved to be the backbone of the [...]
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New video from House Shoe's Let It Go album, "Roller Coaster" featuring Selfsays & Fat Albert Einstein. iTunes: Let It Go (Deluxe Version) - House Shoes
Click here to view the embedded video. ( djhouseshoes.com ) The latest video off Detroit Hip Hop everything House Shoes's "Let it Go" album has Self Says & Fat Albert teaming up for Roller Coaster. I run into Self Says once a year in a random city, and he is a really nice guy. Like the kind of guy that is so genuinely Hip Hop that it makes you feel bad for liking post-modern internet rappers. Well, [...]

A couple months ago or so I was cold chillin with my fellow comrade Shoes in the whip before he took the stage @ the Pagoda, sippin the nectar, enjoying the scenery with that greenery & then he played me his album. Nigga. I lost my everloving mind sun! I'm sayin... I always knew my doode was dope, I always knew he was one of the trillest muthafuckaz in the game, let alone in my circle of fresh niggaz in the game, I always knew he had beats, I always knew muthafuckaz were'nt up on my man like they should [...]
With an EP out now and an album on the way next month, Detroit champion and long-time Dilla associate House Shoes is clearly knee deep in the beats right now. His latest release, The Time EP , is out now, bit it doesn't stop there. Oh no, no, no. The Time is the place setter for Let It Go , House Shoes' LP which is set to drop next month. If you're knee deep in beats, one release clearly won't do. [...]
With an EP out now and an album on the way next month, Detroit champion and long-time Dilla associate House Shoes is clearly knee deep in the beats right now. His latest release, The Time EP , is out now, bit it doesn't stop there. Oh no, no, no. The Time is the place setter for Let It Go , House Shoes' LP which is set to drop next month. If you're knee deep in beats, one release clearly won't do. [...]