Posts Tagged ‘Tiny Desk’
NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Series Presents: Freddie Gibbs & Madlib (Video)
December 9, 2019
I like this whiskey in my cup. We not givin’ a f**k…
‘Skinny Suge’ and Madlib make their way to the studio for a Tiny Desk concert. And everything is right with the world. Actually, it went a little left, starting jazzy then lyrics went HARD. But that makes things even ‘righter’ (haha)!
This Freddie Gibbs and Madlib Tiny Desk performance was a year in the making, largely because Madlib insisted on playing with El Michels Affair, a vintage funk and soul band based out of New York. But it was worth the wait. When pianist Marco Benevento opened with a delicate, almost jazzy run, it created the perfect opening — and juxtaposition — for hard-hitting emcee, Gibbs to jump in and ride the hell out of that beat.
– NPR
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NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Series Presents: Damian ‘Jr. Gong’ Marley (Video)
September 20, 2019
Those who know already know: Jr. Gong can go! Not leaning on the Marley name or legacy, rather he is upholding it! Watch a small sample of his doing so above.
Watch Damian ‘Jr. Gong’ Marley play “Slave Mill,” “So a Child May Follow” and “Speak Life” at the Tiny Desk.
– NPR Music
– @ojones1
NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Series Presents: Ty Dolla $ign Paying Tribute To Mac Miller (Video)
September 9, 2019
Mannnnn… RIP Mac Miller #Feels
Allow yourself to catch the vibe on this one, hold it in, feel it. Words of tribute at the top. Silky R&B through to the end. Short and sweet. And dope.
(Bookended with another set of respect and RIP shouts. Nice.)
– @ojones1
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NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Series Presents: H.E.R. (Video)
December 13, 2018
A whole lot less stand-offish and enigmatic for this Tiny Desk set, as she should be, H.E.R. treats the intimate gathering of souls to warm blend of R&B and Soul, peppered with moments of Hip-Hop adjacent styled delivery. Enjoy!
Cool shades. Cute singer 😉
Posted in Performance, R&B, Soul, Videos | Tags: Gabi Wilson, H.E.R., Her, National Public Radio, NPR, NPR Music, NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert, Tiny Desk, Tiny Desk Concert, Tiny Desk Concert Series | No Comments »
NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Series Presents: Wu-Tang Clan (Video)
December 6, 2018
You know that thing you didn’t even realize you were waiting for? Well, here it is. Wu-Tang! WU-TAAAANG!! And their Tiny Desk Concert ain’t nothing to f**k wit’! Enjoy.
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NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Series Presents: Big Boi (Video)
October 22, 2018
Big Boi comes down from The Planet Of Stankonia to do a Tiny Desk Concert… ON IT!
The energy in the room was buoyant and vibrant from the moment they walked in the door. OutKast star Big Boi, Sleepy Brown of the prolific Atlanta production collective Organized Noize, and their eight-member backing band have been working together for 20-plus years, and their chemistry is instantaneous and undeniable.
– NPR Music
This the loudest I have ever heard a Tiny Desk Concert be. Dope!
– @ojones1
NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert Series Presents: Smif N Wessun (Video)
September 18, 2018
Not like they don’t belong on this forum. They do. Just did not expect to see them featured in their own Tiny Desk Concert. Very glad Smif-N-Wessun are though!
Brooklyn-bred Hip-Hop duo Smif-N-Wessun – consisting of partners in rhyme, Steele and Tek – illuminated the Tiny Desk with their signature, 80-proof poetry: straight, no chaser. Their music, inspired by their gritty and pre-gentrified Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brownsville neighborhoods, offers the vocabulary of veterans who survived the grimy streets. These original members of the Duck Down Records group Boot Camp Clik represent quintessential ’90s true-school Hip-Hop from the bedrock, when Timberland boots were standard issue. Backing Steele and Tek for the first time is D.C.’s own Black Alley band.
– Abby O’Neill, NPR Music
(That “One Time” they wrapped with sounds extra nice.)
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