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Best Tiny Desk Hip-Hop Performances Ranked

[ad_1] NPR Music’s Tiny Desk series has been providing performance gems for over a decade now. Since the platform sparked off its intimate performances at a desk inside the media organization in Washington, D.C., plenty of major league and minor league hip-hop faces have graced the stage—or office corner in this case. Each generation of talent, from the Wu-Tang Clan to Roddy Ricch, have performed roughly 20-minute live shows that pull in the viewer as if there was a seat right in front of the artist.For rappers who typically use heavy instrumentation and thorough musicality in their songs, playing with a live band can create a magical experience. For Anderson .Paak, having real instruments coat the backdrop...