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Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf: Our Favorite 2021 Entries, Episode 4

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4.33.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Before we announce this year's Tiny Desk Contest winner, we're asking our judges to share their favorite entries in a weekly livestreamed series. In this episode, John Morrison shares his picks.

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0:00.0

Hello everybody and welcome to the Tiny Desk Contest Top Shelf.

0:04.6

The Tiny Desk Contest is our yearly nationwide search

0:09.3

for a great undiscovered artist to play the regular Tiny Desk.

0:12.8

We get thousands of submissions from around the country.

0:16.1

But before we do that, before we crown a winner this year,

0:19.1

each week we're going to talk to one of our judges

0:21.9

to talk about some of their favorites.

0:24.0

And we'll interview one of the interns,

0:26.0

and we'll do that today.

0:27.2

So with that today, we have a member of the fam,

0:30.6

a representing Philly, writer, fellow DJ.

0:34.9

He hosts the Culture Cypher Radio at NPR member station WXPN.

0:39.5

He also hosts serious rap shit, the podcast.

0:43.2

Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for John Morrison.

0:45.9

Yo. What up?

0:47.2

Yo Bobby, thank you, man, for having me.

0:49.5

I appreciate it.

0:51.1

This is good, man.

0:51.8

Thank you for doing this, man.

0:53.0

Thank you for being a judge.

0:54.5

I mean, I know you have to watch a lot of videos.

0:57.6

So thank you for your time, man.

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