Scarface‘s appearance on NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series has been universally praised, but Face has revealed that for him, it was important for a very specific reason.
After the performance, Face and producer and musician Mike Dean, who backed the rapper during the show, spoke to Tiny Desk senior producer Bobby Carter, where the Texas OG made the revelation.
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“Let me tell you why this Tiny Desk was such a moment for me,” the Geto Boys rhymer began. “Because Mike Dean actually played the parts in the [original] songs, so he knows the parts. You don’t have to teach him the parts, because those parts came from him.”
Dean, along with Joseph “N.O. Joe” Johnson, helped create the sound of Southern rap during the 1990s with their work on the Rap-A-Lot Records label.
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Houston native Dean, whose first credited work with Scarface was on 1993’s The World Is Yours — as well as the Geto Boys’ Till Death Do Us Part released that same year — refused to take too much credit for his musical contributions to the rapper’s sound.
“Face is the one that was directing me and [N.O.] Joe all the time what he wanted,” Dean said.
Even before Scarface’s Tiny Desk Concert was released on Monday (December 18), Hip Hop fans were anticipating a killer performance.
The week prior to it coming out, NPR’s Carter tweeted, “I just watched an edit of Scarface’s Tiny Desk. Yeah…. it’s the best hip-hop tiny desk we’ve ever put out. A new crown holder…. Monday.”
The day after it was released, it received high praise from none other than Q-Tip.
The legendary Tribe Called Quest frontman took to Twitter/X on Tuesday (December 19) to praise Face, sharing a link to the concert and adding: “@BrotherMob we needed this.”
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Since launching the series in 2008, NPR has hosted hundreds of Tiny Desk Concerts which see performers put on intimate mini-concerts from inside the organization’s offices.
Some of the most notable Hip Hop appearances on the show have come from Mac Miller, Anderson .Paak and Tyler, The Creator.
