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JID: Tiny Desk Concert

The East Atlanta emcee brings a serious attention to detail to this stripped-down performance of tracks from his new album plus some earlier career-defining songs.
JID performs a Tiny Desk concert.

Everything does is intricately detailed. He seems to care much more than the average emcee, and throughout this entire production, I felt his strong desire to get it right. The weight wasthe East Atlanta native performs songs from the album live for the first time, plus career-defining songs in ways we've never heard before.

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