From TPT’s “MN Original”:
Writer, rapper, singer and member of the hip-hop collective Doomtree, Dessa is a musical force to be reckoned with. Her poetic lyrics and verbal agility have put her on top-ten lists across the country. Robert Christgau, the “Dean of American Rock Critics” compared her to “an old-fashioned high-quality singer-songwriter like Joni Mitchell or Rosanne Cash — just one who’s decided that hip-hop beats, tolerantly and inclusively conceived, are a modern lyricist’s most effective delivery system.”
This is a sneak preview of her upcoming special, premiering Sunday, March 27, at 10 p.m. on TPT.
Dessa and her ensemble perform “The Man I Knew” at the Cedar Cultural Center:
