Kassa Overall on Jazz, Hip-Hop and LA Rapper My Favorite Color

About this episode

Kassa Overall discusses the intersection of jazz and hip-hop in his music and shares a track from LA rapper My Favorite Color.

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. Produced by Dusty Henry Mastered by: William Myers Production support: Serafima Healy Listen to the full songs on KEXP's " In Our Headphones " playlist on Spotify or the “ What's In Our Headphones ” playlist on YouTube. Support the podcast:  kexp.org/headphones Contact us at headphones@kexp.org . Photo credit: Zach Herdman Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Evie Stokes

Guest: Kassa Overall

Topics covered

• jazz
• hip-hop
• music production
• album discussion
• Seattle music scene

Keywords

• Kassa Overall
• My Favorite Color
• jazz
• hip-hop
• CREAM
• Elmer
• music production

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: KEXP, Nice Rec

Books & works: CREAM, Elmer

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