GoldLink: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

June 13, 2018 | Sidney Madden -- GoldLink is a man of the people. As a D.C. native, the skinny, stylish rapper acted as if his Tiny Desk performance was a family reunion and took the opportunity to invite everybody and their cousin in as his guests. To mark the moment, Link wore a crisp T-shirt reading ’I Told You So’ — a nod to the haters, no doubt — and jumped around his discography to perform cuts from each of his three projects: “Bedtime Story“ from 2014’s The God Complex, “Dark Skin Women“ from 2015’s And After That, We Didn’t Talk and finally “Some Girl“ and “Pray Everyday (Survivor’s Guilt)“ from 2017’s At What Cost. But instead of the usual Steve Lacy or Kaytranada-aided beats, Link delivered his verses accompanied by a smooth six-piece band and two velvet-voiced singers. (Link’s longtime producer Louie Lastic plays bass for the entire set.) “Thank y’all for being here. It’s mad overwhelming lowkey,&quo