I'm Bob Boylan from All Songs Considered. The following is the audio from our latest Tiny Desk concert.

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Or go to NPR.org slash Tiny Desk concerts. They took and scared my name. Try to raise a failure

how's all right through.

Try to love them.

They threw it in your face,

told you what you feel it.

How could they know?

It's what they know.

It's what they mean.

So when you see him cry, Him cry. No, it's nothing new. It's always cruel. Oh, my all by ourselves.

Third grade, I'm in the hallway and I'm sure I shouldn't have been and Cori White comes up to me and asks,

yo, have you heard the new Missy Elliott track?

I reply, who is Missy Elliott?

At the time my parents only let me listen to Gospel and the smooth jazz station

but that day I went home, ran upstairs to my room and closed the door which is a cardinal

sin and a black mother's house and I waited on TRL to come on and then it happened.

Metallics in a black trash bag filled my TV screen and I hear the coolest thing

I'd ever heard in eight years of living. Beep, beep, who got the keys to the jeep,

broom, and at that moment I had my entire life figured out,

I was going to grow up to be Missy Elliot.

I spent the next 10 years of my life recording and

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