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Sampha: Tiny Desk Concert

A Tiny Desk Concert as intimate as it gets (that's saying something). Just Sampha, a piano and three heart-wrenching songs that seem to double as coping mechanisms.
Sampha performs a Tiny Desk Concert on Feb. 7, 2017. (Claire Harbage/NPR)

"There's nothing new under the sun / It's never what you do, but how it's done," Nas rapped on "No Idea's Original."

Such is than , which is why his fans hold him so close to their hearts.

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