Dessa, the Glossary
Margret Wander (born May 23, 1981), better known by her stage name Dessa, is an American rapper, singer, writer, and former record executive.[1]
Table of Contents
76 relations: A Badly Broken Code, A cappella, Air Credits, All Hands (album), Alternative hip hop, American Public Media, Amy Klobuchar, Amy Klobuchar 2020 presidential campaign, Augsburg University, BBC World Service, Billboard 200, CARE International, Castor, the Twin, Cecil Otter, Chime (Dessa album), City Pages, Compact disc, Dessa, Doomtree, Doomtree (album), E. P. Dutton, False Hopes (Dessa EP), Gayngs, Heatseekers charts, Heiruspecs, Heiruspecs (album), Hip hop music, Hip hop production, HipHopDX, Hurricane Maria, Ice cream, IHeartMedia, Independent Albums, International Baccalaureate, Jessy Greene, Justin Vernon, Lazerbeak, Lights Out Paris, Lin-Manuel Miranda, McNally Smith College of Music, Mel Gibson and the Pants, Mike Mictlan, Minneapolis, Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota Public Radio, Minnesota Twins, Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto), Music download, Never Better (album), New Orleans, ... Expand index (26 more) »
- Gayngs members
- Rappers from Minneapolis
A Badly Broken Code
A Badly Broken Code is the debut studio album by Dessa, a member of Minneapolis indie hip hop collective Doomtree.
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A cappella
Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.
Air Credits
Air Credits is an American hip hop group from Chicago, Illinois.
All Hands (album)
All Hands is the third official studio album by Minneapolis hip hop collective Doomtree.
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Alternative hip hop
Alternative hip hop (also known as alternative rap and experimental hip hop) is a subgenre of hip hop music that encompasses a wide range of styles that are not typically identified as mainstream.
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American Public Media (APM) is an American company that produces and distributes public radio programs in the United States, the second largest company of its type after NPR.
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Amy Klobuchar
Amy Jean Klobuchar (born May 25, 1960) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from Minnesota, a seat she has held since 2007.
Amy Klobuchar 2020 presidential campaign
The 2020 presidential campaign of Amy Klobuchar, the senior United States senator from Minnesota and former Hennepin County attorney, was formally announced on February 10, 2019, in Minneapolis.
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Augsburg University
Augsburg University is a private university in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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BBC World Service
The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC.
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Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.
CARE International
CARE (Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere, formerly Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) is a major international humanitarian agency delivering emergency relief and long-term international development projects.
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Castor, the Twin
Castor, the Twin is the second studio album by Dessa, a member of Minneapolis indie hip hop collective Doomtree.
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Cecil Otter
Kyle Smith (born July 16, 1980), better known by his stage name Cecil Otter, is a rapper and producer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dessa and Cecil Otter are rappers from Minneapolis.
Chime (Dessa album)
Chime is the fourth studio album by Dessa, a member of Minneapolis indie hip hop collective Doomtree.
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City Pages
City Pages was an alternative newspaper serving the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area.
Compact disc
The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.
Dessa
Margret Wander (born May 23, 1981), better known by her stage name Dessa, is an American rapper, singer, writer, and former record executive. Dessa and Dessa are 21st-century American women rappers, alternative hip hop musicians, American hip hop singers, American musicians of Puerto Rican descent, American spoken word artists, American women singers, Gayngs members, Midwest hip hop musicians, rappers from Minneapolis and songwriters from Minnesota.
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Doomtree
Doomtree is an American hip hop collective and record label based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Doomtree (album)
Doomtree is the first official studio album by Minneapolis hip hop collective Doomtree.
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E. P. Dutton
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False Hopes (Dessa EP)
False Hopes is the debut EP by Dessa, a member of Minneapolis indie hip hop collective Doomtree.
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Gayngs
Gayngs is a Midwest indie band with a 1980s soft rock-inspired sound.
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Heatseekers charts
The Heatseekers charts are "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine.
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Heiruspecs
Heiruspecs is a live hip hop band based in the Midway neighborhood of Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Heiruspecs (album)
Heiruspecs is a self-titled album by Saint Paul, Minnesota hip hop group Heiruspecs.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.
Hip hop production
Hip hop production is the creation of hip hop music in a recording studio.
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HipHopDX
HipHopDX is an online magazine of hip hop music criticism and news.
Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 5 hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which accounted for 2,975 of the 3,059 deaths.
Ice cream
Ice cream is a frozen dessert typically made from milk or cream that has been flavoured with a sweetener, either sugar or an alternative, and a spice, such as cocoa or vanilla, or with fruit, such as strawberries or peaches.
iHeartMedia, Inc., or CC Media Holdings, Inc., is an American mass media corporation headquartered in San Antonio, Texas.
Independent Albums
The Independent Albums chart (previously titled Top Independent Albums) ranks the highest-selling independent music albums and extended plays (EPs) in the United States, as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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International Baccalaureate
The International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), more commonly known as the International Baccalaureate (IB), is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and founded in 1968.
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Jessy Greene
Jessy Greene is an American violinist, cellist and vocalist.
Justin Vernon
Justin DeYarmond Edison Vernon (born April 30, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. Dessa and Justin Vernon are Gayngs members.
Lazerbeak
Aaron Mader (born July 21, 1982), better known by his stage name Lazerbeak, is an American record producer, singer, and guitarist from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Lights Out Paris
Lights Out Paris is the first studio album by American hip hop artist Sims, a member of Minneapolis indie hip hop collective Doomtree.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda (born January 16, 1980) is an American songwriter, actor, singer, filmmaker, rapper and librettist. Dessa and lin-Manuel Miranda are American musicians of Puerto Rican descent.
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McNally Smith College of Music
McNally Smith College of Music was a private for-profit music school in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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Mel Gibson and the Pants
Mel Gibson and the Pants is an underground hip hop band based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Mike Mictlan
Michael Thomas Marquez (born July 8, 1982), better known by his stage name Mike Mictlan, is a rapper from Los Angeles, California, who is currently based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Dessa and Mike Mictlan are alternative hip hop musicians and rappers from Minneapolis.
Minneapolis
Minneapolis, officially the City of Minneapolis, is a city in and the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota.
Minnesota Orchestra
The Minnesota Orchestra is an American orchestra based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Minnesota Public Radio
Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) is a public radio network for the state of Minnesota.
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Minnesota Twins
The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis.
Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto)
Mount Sinai Hospital (MSH) is a hospital in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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Music download
A music download (commonly referred to as a digital download) is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone.
Never Better (album)
Never Better is the third solo studio album by American rapper P.O.S. It was released on Rhymesayers Entertainment in the year 2009.
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New Orleans
New Orleans (commonly known as NOLA or the Big Easy among other nicknames) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana.
Night Vale Presents
Night Vale Presents, formerly known as Commonplace Books, is a production company and independent podcast network founded in 2015 by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor.
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No Kings
No Kings is the second official studio album by Minneapolis hip hop collective Doomtree.
NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
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P.O.S (rapper)
Stefon Leron Alexander (born August 18, 1981), better known by his stage name P.O.S, is an American hip hop artist from Minneapolis. Dessa and P.O.S (rapper) are Gayngs members, Midwest hip hop musicians and rappers from Minneapolis.
Paper Tiger (hip hop producer)
John Samels, better known by his stage name Paper Tiger, is a hip hop producer and DJ from Minneapolis, Minnesota, who is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.
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Parts of Speech (album)
Parts of Speech is the third studio album by Dessa, a member of Minneapolis indie hip hop collective Doomtree.
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Phonograph record
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English), a vinyl record (for later varieties only), or simply a record or vinyl is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.
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Podcast
A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet.
Poliça
Poliça (often stylised in all caps) is an American pop band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in 2011.
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Political demonstration
A political demonstration is an action by a mass group or collection of groups of people in favor of a political or other cause or people partaking in a protest against a cause of concern; it often consists of walking in a mass march formation and either beginning with or meeting at a designated endpoint, or rally, in order to hear speakers.
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Puerto Rico
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Rain Taxi
Rain Taxi is a Minneapolis-based book review and literary organization.
Rapping
Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular".
Sims (rapper)
Andrew Sims (born October 19, 1982), better known mononymously as Sims, is an American rapper from Minneapolis. Dessa and Sims (rapper) are rappers from Minneapolis.
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
Southwest High School (Minnesota)
Southwest High School, or simply Southwest, is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in the Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
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Stage name
A stage name or professional name is a pseudonym used by performers, authors, and entertainers—such as actors, comedians, singers, and musicians.
Star Tribune
The Star Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The Hamilton Mixtape
The Hamilton Mixtape is a 2016 mixtape album featuring assorted (and deleted) songs from the 2015 Broadway musical Hamilton performed by various artists, including Kelly Clarkson, Wiz Khalifa, Nas, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Dessa, Miguel, Chance the Rapper, Nate Ruess, K’naan, Aloe Blacc, and the Roots.
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The Mountain Goats
The Mountain Goats are an American band formed in Claremont, California, by singer-songwriter John Darnielle.
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The New York Times Magazine
The New York Times Magazine is an American Sunday magazine included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a music chart published weekly by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales in the United States and is compiled by Luminate.
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Twin Cities PBS
Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. (abbreviated TPT, doing business as Twin Cities PBS) is a nonprofit organization based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States, that operates the Twin Cities' two PBS member television stations, KTCA-TV (channel 2.1) and KTCI-TV (channel 2.3), both licensed to Saint Paul.
Underground hip hop
Underground hip-hop (also commonly known as indie hip-hop or underground rap) is an umbrella term for hip hop music that is outside the general commercial canon.
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University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota (formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), colloquially referred to as "The U", is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.
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Welcome to Night Vale
Welcome to Night Vale is a satirical science fiction podcast presented as a community radio show in the fictional American desert town of Night Vale, reporting on the strange events that occur within it.
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See also
Gayngs members
Rappers from Minneapolis
- Agape (Christian rapper)
- Astronautalis
- Axel Foley (rapper)
- Botzy
- Cecil Otter
- Charles Coleman (music producer)
- Dem Atlas
- Desdamona
- Dessa
- Dua Saleh
- George Floyd
- I Self Devine
- KayCyy
- Lizzo
- M.anifest
- Manny Phesto
- Marz Lovejoy
- Mike Mictlan
- Muja Messiah
- P.O.S (rapper)
- Prof (rapper)
- Sab the Artist
- Shredders (music group)
- Sims (rapper)
- Slug (rapper)
- Toki Wright
- Tori Fixx
- Xavier Marquis
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dessa
Also known as Aby Wolf, Dessa Darling, Sleeping with Nikki, The Boy Sopranos.
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