Best of Soundcheck: Dessa, Omar Offendum

Soundcheck by WNYC Studios

Aug 30, 202600:51:43Health

For this episode of Soundcheck, the rapper, singer, and author Dessa gets political, and Syrian-American rapper Omar Offendum gets historical.

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