KNaan NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Though his appearance at the NPR Music office qualifies as the firstever hiphop Tiny Desk Concert, Somaliborn rapper K naan isn t one to adhere to a single genre. Given that he released a song called If Rap Gets Jealous earlier this year, it s no surprise that this show found him infusing his music with the sounds of soul, pop and reggae. With the help of a crack backing band, his threesong set all drawing from this spring s marvelous Troubadour, proves what we ve been saying for months, K naan has