Kassa Overall - Cream

2025

Kassa Overall is a jazz drummer and bandleader, and he has also dabbled in rapping and beatmaking. 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).”

In a press release, Kassa Overall says. “CREAM isn’t just covers — it’s a full-on reimagining of hip-hop through jazz, digging into the musical guts and soul of both. It’s a fresh take on how these genres talk to each other — not just a collision, but a conversation that’s been brewing since the ’90s.”