Kassa Overall is a jazz drummer and bandleader, and he has also dabbled in rapping and beatmaking. Later this year, he’ll follow his guest-heavy 2023 album ANIMALS with CREAM, a new instrumental collection of rap covers. On this one, Kassa Overall and his band go entirely live, staying away from the samples and drum machines that Overall often likes to use, while putting their own spin on classics from the Wu-Tang Clan, Biggie Smalls, Dr. Dre, Outkast, Juvenile, and a Tribe Called Quest, as well as one song made famous by Miles Davis. The lead single is a very cool meditation on Digable Planets’ greatest contribution to society, the 1992 banger “Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat).”
