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The 5 Best Southern Rap Tiny Desk Concerts

From Gucci Mane making Tiny Desk history as our first trap performer to Megan Thee Stallion repping Houston while headlining the very first Tiny Desk Fest, the South is legion at the Desk.
Big Boi performs a Tiny Desk Concert on Oct. 1, 2018.

Hip-hop has been an integral component in Tiny Desk's success for quite a while now. Rappers from across the globe have played the Desk this week, we're picking five performances from Southern hip-hop artists. set a benchmark as the first trap representative at the Desk. , one half of the duo that sounded the proverbial alarm in 1995, showed us again why he's a legend. proved that she can go bar for bar with anyone from the East, West, or anywhere in between, while 's storytelling and emotional cadence set a few tear ducts into overdrive. made history as the first artist to perform at our 2019 Tiny Desk Fest; she completely tore it down and nothing was the same.

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