Andres Reyes at CertifiedHipHop interviewed DJ House Shoes recently:
House Shoes talking about Detroit’s sound and Detroit’s ‘hip hop radio stations’.
AR: Tell me some about Detroit, because I feel like it’s such an important city to Hip Hop but it doesn’t get recognized when people talk about major cities in Hip Hop
I always tell people, that D sound that is so heralded all around the world, it’s not the Detroit sound, it’s a small family of maybe 50 peeps, that listen to it, the rest of Detroit, they listen to Jeezy and Pac and all that other radio shit. Let me give you the perfect description of this, when Jay passed 98WJLB the so-called ‘Home of Hip Hop,’ played a tribute to Dilla, and they played three Slum joints, Tainted, Ez Up and Selfish, none of which are produced by Dilla.
AR: What!? For real?
Yeah man. The most imitated sound in music in the last 15-20 years, and we don’t get credit for it in the industry. What really fucked me up was the grammy’s, when they put Jay’s face up, I was like ‘just his face?’ That’s the first and last time we’ll hear about Dilla at the grammy’s. Another good example of all this, when I was out in L.A. for the funeral, the week after that they did a quote unquote, ‘what’s next on the menu’ feature, that my man DDT hosts, and he was playing Dilla all night and the fuckin program director, while they’re playin the Badu shit, and the Janet shit, and the program director is all like ‘Oh shit, I didn’t know he did that joint. I didn’t know he produced that.’
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