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In Our Headphones

KEXP DJ Stas THEE Boss on Atlanta’s Vayda

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

KEXP DJ Stas THEE Boss joins host Evie Stokes to talk about confident female rappers and Vayda, a young rapper and producer from Georgia. The two talk about Vayda’s new song “Daystar.”

Hosted by Evie Stokes
Produced by Lilly Ana Fowler
Mastered by: William Myers
Production support: Serafima Healy
Associate Director of Editorial: Dusty Henry

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0:00.0

In Our headphones is made possible in part by Thorntail Hard Agave.

0:04.3

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0:07.2

From Independent Music Station, K-E-X-P, you're listening to In Our Headphones, a podcast about the songs that we just can't get enough of.

0:15.2

This is Evie Stokes, and this week I'm talking with Staws the boss, one of the hosts of street sounds here on K-E-X-P.

0:22.4

And Staz, you have a new song that you're going to share that you brought for us today.

0:26.5

What do you have?

0:27.3

This is Daystar by my girl Veda.

0:30.6

Oh, man.

0:33.1

First of all, Veda, I probably play Veda, a Veda song.

0:40.6

Once every show, like, every time I'm on the radio,

0:46.8

I play her. She's just, she's out of control. She produces her own music. She uses these crazy, like, deep soul samples and jazz samples that people aren't even thinking of. She's very young,

0:53.4

too. And just the way that she floats on

0:56.2

every beat. You could tell she made the song because of the way that she gets inside of it,

1:01.7

the way she wraps on it. But this one in particular is just, it's very concise. It's like a

1:06.5

minute in 40 seconds or something. And then she's just really just bragging, telling the men what she wants them to do,

1:13.0

like, oh, if you're going to text me, you need to clear my cart.

1:17.4

She's so wavy.

1:19.7

I love it.

1:20.4

I love the bragging.

1:21.4

I love the arrogance.

1:23.6

And, you know, it was right up my alley.

1:25.7

So I looked back.

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