I was just thinking about the SHADES series yesterday, actually. How was the experience making those mixtapes significant to your creative journey? I'd like to start by talking about your pandemic-era SHADES trilogy of mixtapes.
This interview has been edited for clarity. Read on for an interview with Overall about his latest career moves, bucking tired narratives and using collaborators as instruments - much like a certain embattled rap innovator. On tracks like lead single "Ready to Ball," the Nick Hakim and Theo Croker -featuring "Make My Way Back Home," and the Vijay Iyer-assisted "The Score Was Made," Overall has bigger fish to fry - than where rap does or doesn't connect with jazz. The album is consumed with subjects like his uneasy relationship with ambition, and his relationship with his growing audience. On ANIMALS, Overall rose to the energetic occasion.
"Somebody like Louis Armstrong or Dizzy Gillespie - a third of them was Lil B and Danny Brown energy. "The reason the jazz world feels a little bit dry and s- is because there's not really the space for absurdity," Overall says. Try to find another record where you'll find jazz-adjacent pianists Vijay Iyer and Kris Davis next to singular rappers like Danny Brown and Lil B. The joy of ANIMALS is not in that genre fusion, but Overall's swelling boldness and vividness as an artist - as well as its novel fusion of seemingly disparate collaborators. I'm not so much trying to prove the point anymore that these things can go together. "I've talked about this for two albums now," he told in 2021 with a hint of exhaustion. It sure beats the one that hamstrung him in the past, when he did interview after interview after interview about the intersection of jazz and rap - with mental health thrown in for good measure. The conversation has turned to the concept of absurdity - a helpful lens through which to view Overall's art. That 20-second intro took Overall a long time to get right, but it's one of his favorite moments on his new album, ANIMALS - which arrived May 26 on Overall's new home, Warp Records. Have A Google Home Device? "Talk To GRAMMYs" The seven-song LP, Kids See Ghosts, drops June 8.Ĭatching Up On Music News Powered By The Recording Academy Just Got Easier. Cudi is also featured on "Ghost Town" on West's Ye. No stranger to high-profile collaborations, Cudi's most recent album is 2016's Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin', featured guest appearances from André 3000, Pharrell Williams, and Travis Scott. The GRAMMY winner reportedly flew hundreds of members of the media to Jackson Hole, Wyo., to preview his new project on the day before it was released. West released his eighth studio album, Ye, on June 1, which was also preceded by a highly publicized listening party.
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While full details are still forthcoming, the tweet did say the event will happen in L.A. West teased this latest collaboration with Murakami back in April, tweeting a sketch with the caption, "Murakami vibes." The colorful artwork for Kids See Ghosts was revealed in a tweet from Cudi on June 6.Ĭudi's manager, Dennis Cummings, also took to Twitter to announce a listening party for Kids See Ghosts. The album cover was designed by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, a name many hip-hop fans will recognize as the artist who created the album artwork for West's 2007 modern classic, Graduation. Adding to the frenzy of anticipation leading up to the project's release, the duo have revealed the album artwork and loose details on a listening party in Los Angeles. GRAMMY winners Kid Cudi and Kanye West have teamed up under the moniker Kids See Ghosts for a new self-titled album due out Friday.
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