Clipse | Tiny Desk Performance
Added 2025-08-17 13:15:01 +0000 UTC***update I did some research and wanted to correct my statements in this video. Luckily, 'Tiny Desk' has been separated enough from the parent company and only 2% of it's funding came through that pathway so Tiny Desks are safe at this time🙌🏼
timestamps:
0:00 - intro
0:30 - virginia
5:01 - keys open doors
7:17 - vambie's grudge
9:01 - keys open doors continued
12:25 - mamma i'm so sorry
17:01 - chains & whips
21:59 - bird don't sing
27:39 - grindin'
31:43 - final thoughts
Comments
Also love seeing a fellow adhd white girl who loves music totally falling in love with them 💜 I’ve loved them since the grinding era but it’s hard to find anyone in my peer group that can appreciate or even like them
Lena Pond
2025-09-24 04:46:36 +0000 UTCI love that you were like “is this sampled? I’ve heard this!” on grinding… when I’m guessing you heard it circa 2002 (which was my intro to clipse) and you didn’t realize it was them… because damn they have matured from their early 2000’s coke bars!
Lena Pond
2025-09-24 04:44:01 +0000 UTCGrindin is thee undisputed hardest rap in hip hop, Pharrell and Chad blacked out with that one, to think Pharrell threatened to give the beat to Jay Z if the Clipse didn’t make it to the studio in time lmao
Paul Smitherman
2025-09-01 15:12:12 +0000 UTCMy fave thing about pusha live is how little he blinks, lol. Also how push is the ego and mal is the consionce (however you spell that word)
Szymon Tusting
2025-09-01 12:48:53 +0000 UTCWatching. You fall in love with them mid video is hilarious 😂. also youve 100% heard grinding it was their breakout hit it came out in 02
TheUptownSound
2025-08-27 04:30:25 +0000 UTCYou probably 100% heard grindin in passing or in a commercial or the instrumental. It’s a legendary track that put the Clipse on main stream . Also love how much you love them they’re REAL HIP-HOP! Def should do Doechii’s Tiny Desk performance it’s FANTASTIC 💯
Wakandan King D
2025-08-26 08:11:36 +0000 UTCYou know grindin from the end of the chains and whips music video, the two girls were singing it. But it’s also a classic and a giant part/ catalyst of Pharrell’s legacy lol
drew tomevi
2025-08-22 16:12:11 +0000 UTCYou should definitely check out hell hath no fury!
Jool
2025-08-22 15:31:57 +0000 UTCOG. She ain’t ready for Scarface yet. lol
Scotty
2025-08-21 17:23:00 +0000 UTCClipse classic!! Another Tiny Desk worth watching is Scarface. Soooo good
Jerm
2025-08-21 15:56:33 +0000 UTCyou know Grindin is a CLASSIC when even Vambie knows it lmaoo that song was mainstream AS FK
Tafari Johnson
2025-08-20 00:45:11 +0000 UTCTyler’s tiny desk is classic - have rewatched a million times and OMG the thought of Vambie reacting to the DOECCI tiny desk. Vambie, If you are reading this and you EVER have some time on your hands that would be incredible wow 🤩 ✨
Miss Liss
2025-08-19 20:53:09 +0000 UTCVambie slowly growing into a Hip Hop fan means something to me man… she’s a Clipster now🥲
Lagabe
2025-08-19 07:32:15 +0000 UTCHey when are we getting the wolf reaction? Great album not as dark
Khari Vaughn
2025-08-19 03:18:25 +0000 UTCthank you! yes, I started adding them to the YouTube videos honestly didn't mean to add it to the patreon version 😹 I had been working on creating a bunch of YouTube versions of the past patreon videos before working on this video, so I think it was just habit 😹
Vambie
2025-08-18 15:27:09 +0000 UTCso glad I'm not alone in this I was like you cannot take it this away from me 😹
Vambie
2025-08-18 15:21:36 +0000 UTCI think I made one the summer before 7th grade, which was 2007, so I was either 11 or 12, depending on when it happened in the summer. 😹
Vambie
2025-08-18 15:21:01 +0000 UTCClipse also performed Birds Don’t Sing on one of the late night shows (I looked it up: it’s Jimmy Fallon). I think the song’s important to them and they really want to honor their parents during this press run. It’s a gorgeous song with such an important sentiment!
Tessara Dudley
2025-08-17 23:48:15 +0000 UTCVambie is a Clipster! Nice!
Dave
2025-08-17 23:28:51 +0000 UTCWeren't you like 8 when MySpace was out? Lol. Tom tried to save us all
Rob Wright
2025-08-17 22:27:56 +0000 UTCTill the casket drops is their only record not fully produced by Pharrell, and he did like half that record. He’s also done a lot of pushas solo stuff too
BJ Miller
2025-08-17 20:53:27 +0000 UTCThis is what we call a W upload
Owari
2025-08-17 20:29:04 +0000 UTCThe MySpace rant is so real. I waited an extremely long time to switch to facebook too
Lexi Browning
2025-08-17 18:32:50 +0000 UTCThat last part with the guy drumming the beat on the desk is a throwback to when this song dropped there wasn't a lunch room in America that didn't have someone doing this beat on the lunch table.
Supa
2025-08-17 18:25:30 +0000 UTCLove that you reacted to this and got to see Pusha's evil joker laugh lmao
Gregory Smith
2025-08-17 17:48:16 +0000 UTCIs the outro graphic new? Either way, I approve
Jyn Jilly
2025-08-17 17:38:13 +0000 UTCGene = Malice’s real name. I think it’s just three siblings, two boys (Pusha & Malice) along with their sister Dede. Malice/Gene is the eldest sibling who found their parents once they passed, per interviews.
Marquis
2025-08-17 17:36:42 +0000 UTCLove you for doing this, the true people’s champ lol 💯
Craig
2025-08-17 17:26:17 +0000 UTCIn black neighborhood grade through high schools, grindin was the single most popular song in the early 2000s as we would play it on lunch tables,girls would make the beat using their hands and feet etc
Ron Cash
2025-08-17 16:41:36 +0000 UTCSeen enough We need that Lord Willin reaction 😮💨
Trysten Leon
2025-08-17 16:33:59 +0000 UTCAb-soul has a good tiny desk
Alex Illsley
2025-08-17 16:04:42 +0000 UTCFun thought: back in the day, hip-hop artists used to do live in-office performances, to get signed. Imagine being the intern in the office, that day one of these legends was auditioning for a deal.
Guzman the Revelator
2025-08-17 15:57:50 +0000 UTCCan we applaud the fact that Pharrell and/or the Neptunes basically produced damn near their whole catalog, we love childhood friendships that turn into business relationships
Tristyn Davis
2025-08-17 15:50:00 +0000 UTCBut ummm yes more clipseee
Tristyn Davis
2025-08-17 15:40:14 +0000 UTCThe grindin sing is just very popular it’s all original so you probably heard the song somewhere
Tristyn Davis
2025-08-17 15:38:57 +0000 UTCEverything about this performance was awesome. The breath control, delivery, mannerisms, setlist and of course the interactions between the brothers
randomdudeoninternet606
2025-08-17 15:19:34 +0000 UTCTiny desk is all feels, nostalgia and the pride between fans and artists we share for the music. Like stated previously about kids doing the grinding beat on tables. It’s shows pharrell genius. To make a beat so simple that kids can copy it on desks but so intricate at the same time. The grinding beat has to be, either the most impactful, best , or greatest beat of that generation. Thanks for doing a request vambie. It was fun.
Scotty
2025-08-17 14:54:55 +0000 UTCOnly thing I really wanted you to catch was their delivery, and that Socrates bar lol. And you delivered!!
Tony
2025-08-17 14:25:23 +0000 UTCOne of my absolute fav tiny desks!!
Miss Liss
2025-08-17 14:07:48 +0000 UTCAlso the other tiny desk that I remember seeing the audience in was for Juvenile & Manny Fresh - the whole performance was a party 😅
Miss Liss
2025-08-17 14:07:31 +0000 UTCThe banging on the desk was requested by the band because it’s what an entire generation of kids were doing at lunch tables when Grindin debuted. That’s why the ppl behind the camera went crazy - there’s more comments about this in the video probably.
Miss Liss
2025-08-17 14:06:17 +0000 UTCRecommendations: COLORS live performance, Genius videos of them explaining Let God Sort Em Out Lyrics (super short and entertaining), Jimmy Fallon live performance. So Be It music video is a must see and there’s one for Chains & Whips as well. I know there’s a lot on your plate but the Hell Hath No Fury album is a CLASSIC 💞
Miss Liss
2025-08-17 14:04:38 +0000 UTCYou should also do Tyler's Tiny Desk after reacting to Flower Boy, and whenever you get to Doechii you will absolutely LOVE hers. Hers is one of my favorite Tiny Desks I've seen.
algorerhythm
2025-08-17 14:01:51 +0000 UTCGrindin' was the lead single to their first album (or rather, their first album that actually came out) and was a big hit. Apparently (I'm both a bit too young and a lot too European to know first hand) it was THE beat kids would bang on desks or lunch tables at school and have their homies freestyle to it - the drummer (Daru Jones) doing that at the end was a tribute to that, and apparently the NPR producers asked them to do that last minute.
algorerhythm
2025-08-17 13:59:22 +0000 UTCAlso Tyler did a great tiny desk you should watch after Flower Boy. We need a Kendrick one!!!!
Jay D
2025-08-17 13:55:57 +0000 UTCIIRC Taylor’s tiny desk showed the crowd too!
Jay D
2025-08-17 13:55:00 +0000 UTCThe reason you feel like you've heard Grindin' is because the song was a MASSIVE track. Bits and pieces of it have been used everywhere.
devildham
2025-08-17 13:54:00 +0000 UTCmac miller has the best tiny desk ever in mine and most people’s opinions, all the songs come from his album “swimming” witch i HIGHLY recommend
James Nash
2025-08-17 13:52:20 +0000 UTCThank you for this!
himothy1017
2025-08-17 13:48:32 +0000 UTCAlso grindin was pretty popular thats why you might have heard it
Lucas Martins Soares
2025-08-17 13:48:17 +0000 UTCPlease do react to hell hath no fury or lord willin! They are the albums that are absolute classics for clipse
Lucas Martins Soares
2025-08-17 13:47:37 +0000 UTCThis is one of my favourite performances on NPR, they sounded so clear, breath control impeccable. Glad you reacted to this
Rich
2025-08-17 13:29:24 +0000 UTComg what a pleasant surprise!
1234
2025-08-17 13:28:07 +0000 UTCoh hell yes
algorerhythm
2025-08-17 13:26:06 +0000 UTCYessss!! Didn’t know if/when you’d get a chance to fit more Clipse into your schedule — excited to check out, THANK YOU!!!
Miss Liss
2025-08-17 13:17:22 +0000 UTC
