Bas: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Watch Bas play “Barack Obama Special“, “Purge“, “Designer“ and “Tribe“ at the Tiny Desk. More from NPR Music: Tiny Desk Concerts: Twitter: Instagram: Aug. 5, 2019 | Sidney Madden -- Back in January, Dreamville, one of rap’s most formidable artist-run labels, invited a broad selection of hip-hop artists and creators to Atlanta to create the label’s third compilation album, Revenge of the Dreamers III — and with Bas being one of Dreamville’s most reliable wordsmiths, he was, naturally, part of that momentous camp. But, as he was smack dab in the middle of recording his verses for ROTD3, the rapper had to hop on a plane to Washington D.C. — he had a performance date he just couldn’t pass up. “Let’s get it!,“ Bas exclaimed, after walking straight off the plane and into his Tiny Desk concert. With only a brisk run-through with his band and back-up vocalist, Mereba, the Paris-born, Queens-bred MC delivered an energet