DJ Premier The Badder Band: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Aug 21, 2017, Abby O Neill, Threetime Grammy winner DJ Premier, one of the definitive architects of New York hiphop, brought a new type of life to NPR s Tiny Desk: our first concert helmed by a DJ. A packed house of headnodding journalists grooved through their lunch hour to a ninesong medley of iconic Premier productions while decompressing from the unrelenting grind of the news cycle. The set list rested on the undeniable footprint of Preemo s classics, but this was more than just another DJ mix. H