![]() ![]() A guy who inhabits the traditional role to a tee. House Shoes has spent a decade and a half building a rep as a DJ’s DJ. So do Quelle Chris and Roc Marciano, the latter of whom pops up on “Dirt,” arguably the most appropriately titled song of the year. Black Milk and Guilty Simpson make appearances. Danny Brown may have found fame as an asymmetrically-haired hipster icon, but his roots are on display on House Shoes’ Let it Go. If Chicago drill rap bears a sonic debt to the trap of the dirty south, Detroit’s sound has always mirrored the slums of New York - or Newark if you consider the Eminem-Outsidaz connect. It operates as a palate cleanser to remind you to stop indulging your taste for bullshit. Nowhere else is as no frills and unvarnished. No best album list is complete without something from Detroit. ![]() On a Previous Episode of the Passion of the Weiss: The Top 50 Albums of: 2011 2010 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 ![]()
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