{"id":228690,"date":"2026-06-13T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/?p=228690"},"modified":"2026-06-10T17:18:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:18:21","slug":"joe-tiny-desk-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/joe-tiny-desk-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe: Tiny Desk Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YCbFsAwwyyg?si=P08kpY3UGdxiNaEA\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>R&#038;B veteran Joe Thomas earned every chain and stripe on his body as he stepped behind the Tiny Desk. For every Usher, Ne-Yo, and Leon Thomas who has played in our office, fans of one of their archetypes wondered when he would get his shot. We saw the petitions and social media posts, but trust: We chased for years. Before the music started, the singer-songwriter and producer explained: \u201cWhere have I been for the past few years? Well, I\u2019ve been on the road touring. I\u2019m here with you all today, and I wanna do a few songs throughout the catalog.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Each of the \u201cfew songs\u201d Joe refers to is a chart-topping, gold and platinum-selling smash from the \u201890s and early 2000s. At the Desk, Thomas proves the time away hasn\u2019t diminished anything. He quickly gathers the entire audience in one hand, blazing through songs like \u201cGood Girls,\u201d \u201cThe Love Scene\u201d and the dirty macking anthem, \u201cAll the Things (Your Man Won\u2019t Do).\u201d Joe closes the set with a tender moment, inviting his daughter, Kayla, to sing background on his biggest hit, \u201cI Wanna Know.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"228691\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/joe-tiny-desk-concert\/joe-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Joe.avif\" data-orig-size=\"1400,787\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Joe\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Joe-1024x576.avif\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Joe-540x304.avif\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-228691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Joe-540x304.avif 540w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Joe-1024x576.avif 1024w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Joe-768x432.avif 768w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Joe.avif 1400w, https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Joe.avif 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R&#038;B veteran Joe Thomas earned every chain and stripe on his body as he stepped&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-Xuy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228692,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228690\/revisions\/228692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}