The Roots’ Black Thought Performs From Home on NPR’s Tiny Desk: Watch

The Roots’ Black Thought is the latest guest on NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert, the domestic spin on the popular session series. From a black armchair flanked by Grammys, he played “Thought Vs. Everybody” and “Nature of the Beast” from the forthcoming Streams of Thought Vol. 3, as well as “Yellow” from his off-Broadway musical Black No More, an adaption of the classic novel by George S. Schuyler. For “Nature of the Beast,” he’s joined remotely by Portugal. The Man.

The first instalment in Black Thought’s Streams of Thought series came out in 2018.