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Hear the entire interview and session: http://soundcheck.wnyc.org/story/dessa-in-studio/

The Twin Cities area is home to Doomtree, one of the best independent hip-hop collectives in the country. The seven members includes rapper P.O.S., producers Paper Tiger and Lazerbeak, and its only female MC, Maggie Wander, a.k.a. Dessa. But with Dessa's previous record Castor, The Twin -- which embraced a melodic, jazz-inflected tone -- she proved she's expanding beyond skillful and fluent rapper. Dessa's latest solo album, Parts Of Speech, continues that progression, asserting herself as a singer and writer with grand concepts.

Watch Dessa perform "Skeleton Key" in the Soundcheck studio.

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