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The Midnight Hour: Tiny Desk Concert

A Tribe Called Quest's Ali Shaheed Muhammad and composer Adrian Younge brought their Luke Cage-inspired collaboration to the Tiny Desk.
The Midnight Hour (Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge) performs a Tiny Desk Concert on June 18, 2018 (Morgan Noelle Smith/NPR).

Tiny Desk concerts usually take place in the afternoon.

It might come as a surprise for a 1990s-era hip-hop artist and composer to deliver a sultry set of jazz fusion — one that seems better suited for midnight

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