Cream: Vinyl LP

Label: Warp Records
Release Date: 5th September

The hip hop cover album is tricky terrain, it's so easy for it to be the naffest and edgeless thing you've ever heard, it can often be a little day-time family friendly music festival and thus suck the thrill of the genre right outta things. Kassa Overall though has made, what I may believe to be the definitive and the final boss 'hip hop cover album' with his leftfield avant-garde post bop and spiritual jazz takes on The Notorious B.I.G., Wu-Tang Clan, Dr. Dre, A Tribe Called Quest, OutKast, Digable Planets and Juvenile. What I love is he uses these songs as a jumping off spot like the jazz greats would take an American standard and run wild with it. BANGS.

GRAMMY-nominated jazz visionary and Doris
Duke Artist Award winner Kassa Overall presents
‘Cream’.

Eight interpretations of hip-hop classics by The
Notorious B.I.G., Wu-Tang Clan, Dr. Dre, A Tribe
Called Quest, OutKast, Digable Planets and
Juvenile.

The fourth solo studio album from the GRAMMY
nominee, emcee, bandleader, producer and
legendary jazz drummer.

Liner notes written by best-selling author Dan
Charnas, whose work includes ‘Dilla Time’, ‘Def
Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last
Great Record Label’ and ‘The Big Payback’.

FREEDOM JAZZ DANCE
BIG POPPA
REBIRTH OF SLICK (COOL LIKE DAT)
NUTHIN BUT A “G” THANG
CHECK THE RHIME
SPOTTIEOTTIEDOPALISCI OUS
BACK THAT AZZ UP