Kassa Overall on Jazz, Hip-Hop and LA Rapper My Favorite Color
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Host Evie Stokes sits down with Seattle (and New York) based jazz musician Kassa Overall. Kassa talks about falling in love with jazz and hip-hop and how he finds the common ground between both genres on his latest album CREAM. He also shares a song from LA rapper My Favorite Color and music that passes the car and home stereo test. “Sis” comes from My Favorite Color’s 2025 album, Elmer, produced by Nice Rec.
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| 0:00.0 | This is in our headphones and I'm Evie Stokes. |
| 0:02.5 | I'm really excited to be here in the studio today with Casa Overall. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey, my friend. |
| 0:07.0 | Hey, hey, how's it going? |
| 0:08.0 | Thanks for being here. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm bad to be here. |
| 0:10.2 | So tell us a little bit about yourself. |
| 0:12.7 | What would you like folks to know about Casa Overall? |
| 0:15.7 | You know, I'm a musician. |
| 0:18.1 | I've been a musician since I was a baby. |
| 0:21.9 | I've never done anything else more. |
| 0:25.5 | You know, I never had a job, really. |
| 0:28.2 | And so, yeah, music's in my blood. |
| 0:31.3 | I love it. |
| 0:32.0 | You know, I loved your latest album. |
| 0:33.8 | You had an album named Cream that came out on Warp late last year. |
| 0:37.1 | It was full of covers of like classic rap songs. And I loved it. |
| 0:44.3 | Have you been touring around the record? |
| 0:47.3 | Yeah, yeah, we've been touring around it. And we've had different versions of the band. We've had a, we've had versions that were very similar to the album |
| 0:57.0 | and all those same parts. |
| 0:58.8 | And then we've had other versions where it's like a piano trio |
| 1:02.1 | and we figure out ways to do those arrangements. |
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