Welcome to Detroit

Restricted until 2 May 2010. Shoes House -- as Northern Lights was dubbed on Tuesdays -- was an open campus for self-taught hip-hop academics. Give any of them a two and a four beat and they' d know instinctively if it was a Detroit joint. If it was, you better believe they 'd be doing dances from The D. Sometimes Jitting (as in the jitterbug meets breaking,) always Errol Flynning (as in the gang, not the Robin Hood.); Once you saw Shoes House… once you heard where you were, you couldn't help but feel that Shoes House was a home where your family knew every word, every beat, every measure of the soundtrack of your life.; Where else could you nod your head to Slum Village with Slum Village, two-step to Dwele with Dwele, Errol Flynn to Guilty Simpson with Guilty Simpson, raise your drink to Proof with Proof?; They were all there. It was this moment in time just a couple of years back when everyone was alive and everyone was accounted for.

本数据集于2010年5月2日前处于受限访问状态。被称为"北极光"（周二档别名）的鞋屋（Shoes House），是自学成才的嘻哈文化研究者的开放交流阵地。只需向其中任意一人出示二拍与四拍的节拍，他们便能本能辨别出这是否为底特律风格的嘻哈曲目。若确为底特律风格曲目，他们定然会跳起源自底特律的街舞。时而会有吉特舞（Jitting，即吉特巴与地板霹雳舞的融合形式），而厄罗尔·弗林舞（Errol Flynning，指帮派风格舞步，而非罗宾汉相关演绎）则是保留节目；当你踏入鞋屋，或是听闻此地的氛围，便会情不自禁地感到，鞋屋是这样一处归宿：这里的家人熟知你人生原声配乐中的每一句歌词、每一段节拍与每一个小节。除此之外，你还能在哪里与贫民窟乐团（Slum Village）一同为他们的作品点头打拍，与德维尔（Dwele）一同随他的音乐跳两步舞，与有罪辛普森（Guilty Simpson）一同跳起厄罗尔·弗林舞，又或是与普罗夫（Proof）一同举杯致敬？彼时他们悉数在场，那不过数年前的一段时光里，所有人都尚在人世，每一位都未曾缺席。