Scarface’s upcoming NPR Tiny Desk Concert has been known as the “best Hip Hop Tiny Desk ever” forward of its launch on Monday (December 18).
On X, previously often called Twitter, Tiny Desk producer DJ Cuzzin B received followers hyped by writing: “I just watched an edit of Scarface’s Tiny Desk. Yeah…. it’s the best hip-hop tiny desk we’ve ever put out. A new crown holder…. Monday.”
The Southern rap legend was not too long ago noticed at NPR’s workplace in Washington, D.C. with longtime collaborator Mike Dean, sparking rumors that he can be showing on an upcoming episode of Tiny Desk Concert, which have now been confirmed appropriate.
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I simply watched an edit of Scarface’s Tiny Desk. Yeah…. it is one of the best hip-hop tiny desk we have ever put out. A brand new crown holder…. Monday.
— DJ Cuzzin B (@DJCuzzinB) December 13, 2023
Scarface and Mike Dean pic.twitter.com/0344N5o9ZG
— THE FLY FIDELITY PODCAST (@FlyFidelity) November 28, 2023
Since launching the sequence in 2008, NPR has hosted a whole lot of Tiny Desk Concerts which see performers placed on intimate mini-concerts from contained in the group’s places of work.
Some of essentially the most notable Hip Hop appearances on the present have come from Mac Miller, Anderson .Paak and Tyler, The Creator.
Aside from being a pioneering MC and member of the Geto Boys, Scarface possesses a flexible musical skill that features having the ability to play the guitar.
Speaking about his love of the instrument in an interview with Fender, he mentioned: “I grew up in a band. My uncles were in a band, my cousin was in a band.
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“My uncles would just jam and then go take smoke breaks, and I would be that fly on the wall watching them all day. When they’d leave, I’d pick up the guitar and just try to do what they did on their Strats or P Basses.”
Scarface additionally revealed that he was closely influenced by ’70s exhausting rock in addition to funk and psychedelica: “My mom would drop me off at my grandmother’s house when she went to work. I spent a lot of time there, and over there they played rock and roll. We listened to a lot of Molly Hatchet, Rush, Sabbath, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix, KISS. Just all those guitar heroes.
“And when people in the house got done playing guitars, they just laid them on the bed, so I would play them myself. I went from that to my mom’s house, where they played Parliament and Prince and the Isley Brothers. You mix everything up, and I’m finding myself brainwashed by Pink Floyd and Chaka Kahn. Cheap Trick and the Commodores at the same time.”
Last 12 months, Scarface launched into a 32-date farewell tour to commemorate his greater than three a long time in Hip Hop. It additionally got here after years of well being points together with a kidney transplant.
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