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In Our Headphones

Travis Thompson on rising rapper Oblé

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music Commentary, Music

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Host Evie Stokes talks to Seattle rapper Travis Thompson about his buddy Oblé and their new song together “Roll Call,” off the album Line Leaders on UnderCurrent.

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0:00.0

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 stop listening to. This is Eby Stokes, and this week I am here with Travis Thompson. Travis, how are you? I'm good. Thank you for having me. It's good to be back. I love K-E-X-E. So tell me a little bit about yourself. I'm a rapper from Beery and Washington and I do a few different things. But yeah, it all comes back to the music. And I don't know. I've been doing my thing for a while now. I'm indigenous. Yeah, I don't know. You put me on the spot now. I'm like, who am I, dude? But yeah, I know. Yeah, I'm just a rapper from Beringen, dude, aggressively from Beryant. Cool. Well, you have a new, you have a new record out right now, don't you?

0:41.2

I did. But yeah, I know. I'm just a rapper from Beringen, dude, aggressively from Beryn.

0:37.8

Cool. Well, you have a new, you have a new record out right now, don't you? I do. I do. Life is the scariest movie. Every movie's scary if you watch it right. Turn it off. I find out with a monster life. Talk to I'm embarrassed. So you've made it through the creative process.

0:51.9

Now you're out enjoying life.

0:53.3

And you brought some new music that you're going to share.

0:57.2

You brought this song. So you've made it through the creative process. Now you're out enjoying life. Mm-hmm. And you brought some new music that you're going to share.

0:57.2

Yeah.

0:57.5

You brought this song from Oblet Reed today.

1:00.3

Yeah.

1:01.6

Let me spell it out for you.

1:05.1

L-I-E-L-E-A-D-E-I-S.

1:07.8

Who gonna keep these kids in check?

1:10.3

Yeah, it's our song together called Roll Call. And, yeah, it's, O'Blay has been around in the scene for a minute, and it feels like someone I kind of watched come into themselves and, like, be a force in the scene, and he's now a name that, like, when I leave town, people are asking me about, you know what I'm saying? So so yeah oblay is just like the homie and our collab was long overdue and uh yeah this song's really

1:33.5

tight it feels like an anthem and we perform it and it goes crazy at the shows and yeah it's a good

1:38.5

yeah so this is from a new album called line leaders do you want to talk a little bit about line

1:43.2

leaders what can you tell me line leaders is uh Oblaid's project that like he wanted to like just every, I think every

1:49.7

song on there is a collab with someone around, different person from around the country

1:53.5

that like he feels like was a force in his, or like was a part of his artistic inspiration or like someone he feels like he can

2:02.4

energetically feed off of.

2:04.7

I don't know.

2:05.2

Just a collaborative spirit.

2:06.4

It feels like a lot of times you get a light shined on you and it's like, all right,

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