This Black Music Month, Tiny Desk celebrates the plain legacy of BET. Just like the community that put Black artistry first, these units mirror the essence of Black music.
As the primary artist booked for this 12 months’s Black Music Month celebration, Eve helped set the tone for our Tiny Desk tribute to BET’s cultural influence. One of the profitable girls in hip-hop music, the Philly emcee occupies a singular area, connecting audiences who grew up watching Rap Metropolis with a youthful era that rushed house to catch 106 & Park. Though a lot of Eve’s set options songs which might be greater than 20 years previous, the recent preparations, her commanding efficiency and the viewers’s enthusiastic response exhibits that her music and affect stay timeless.
Since relocating to London over a decade in the past and beginning a household, Eve hasn’t put out a lot music. In 2024, she revealed a memoir chronicling her life and experiences navigating the music business throughout the late ’90s and early 2000s. Not solely did she survive certainly one of hip-hop’s most fiercely aggressive eras, however she additionally emerged as certainly one of its dominant figures — promoting tens of millions of information because the First Woman of Ruff Ryders Leisure, and constructing a profession in tv and movie.
For her Tiny Desk, Eve enlisted the music director Mare — who you could acknowledge from Tierra Whack‘s Tiny Desk — making this a Philly affair. In celebration of the twenty fifth anniversary of her second album, Scorpion, the set options standout tracks comparable to “Let Me Blow Ya Thoughts” and “Who’s That Lady,” alongside fan favorites from Let There Be Eve… and Eve-Olution.
SET LIST
- “Satisfaction”
- “What Ya Need”
- “Gotta Man”
- “Gangsta Lovin’ “
- “Let Me Blow Ya Thoughts”
- “Tambourine”
- “Who’s That Lady”
MUSICIANS
- Eve: vocals
- Mare: keys, music director, background vocals
- Anthony DeCarlo: guitar
- Ali Bervine: bass
- Mark Thomas: drums
- Sheldon “Spazz” Robinson: percussion
- Martin 2 Smoove: DJ
- Brandon Ache: background vocals
- Mimi: background vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Bobby Carter
- Director/Editor: Kara Body
- Audio Director/Combine: Josh Newell
- Videographers: Kara Body, Maia Stern, Joshua Bryant
- Audio Engineer: Tiffany Vera Castro
- Manufacturing Assistant: Ashley Pointer
- Photographer: Alanté Serene
- Sequence Editor: Lars Gotrich
- Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Government Director: Sonali Mehta
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton