Andrey Douthard on Paramita, House Shoes, and Detroit Records | Living for the City Full Interview

On this episode

About this episode

Andrey Douthard is the founder of Paramita Sound, the Detroit record shop and collective that opened in 2014 and became a meeting place for the city's hip hop, electronic, and jazz artists. This is his full conversation with host Hanif Abdurraqib. Douthard came up as a teenager in Detroit's post-8 Mile hip hop scene, brought in by an Inkster group called Street Justice. He remembers Hex Murda running rooms at the Shelter, Danny Brown walking in wearing zebra pants and a blue blouse, and a scene so protective of quality that shows sometimes turned into rappers rapping to rappers. He talks about what gatekeeping protects, what it keeps out, and why he wanted Paramita to be a place for the…