Jeru The Damaja: Tiny Desk Home Concert
The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit strippeddown sets, an intimate setting just a different space. April 30, 2020, Abby O Neill Jeru the Damaja, the emcee who broke out in 1992 on Gang Starr s classic album Daily Operation, jumped at the opportunity to contribute to the Tiny Desk home concert series. He used the concert to share his inspiring philosophy of selfknowledge. Jeru drops lyrics about what it takes to achieve selfactualization in tough conditions for not just himself, but for the culture. Jeru shares a medley of his classics including Can t Stop the Prophet and My Mind Spray, His prescient lyrics remain as relevant as ever as he addresses the deepening fissures of socioeconomic inequalities exposed by the coronavirus crisis. He closes his set from his home in Berlin with a new song, The Power, and offers up a message we
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