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I Know You See Me (Feat. J Hoard & Melanie Charles)

from I THINK I'M GOOD by Kassa Overall

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    Tracklist

    1. Visible Walls
    2. Please Don't Kill Me (Feat. Joel Ross & Theo Croker)
    3. Find Me (Feat. J Hoard)
    4. I Know You See Me (Feat. J Hoard & Melanie Charles)
    5. Sleeping on the Train
    6. Show Me a Prison (Feat. J Hoard & Angela Davis)
    7. Halfway House
    8. Landline (Feat. Carlos Overall)
    9. Darkness in Mind (Feat. Sullivan Fortner)
    10. The Best of Life (Feat. Aaron Parks)
    11. Got Me a Plan
    12. Was She Happy (For Geri Allen) (Feat. Vijay Iyer)

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  • I THINK I'M GOOD Vinyl LP
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A1. Visible Walls
    A2. Please Don't Kill Me (Feat. Joel Ross & Theo Croker)
    A3. Find Me (Feat. J Hoard)
    A4. I Know You See Me (Feat. J Hoard & Melanie Charles)
    A5. Sleeping on the Train
    A6. Show Me a Prison (Feat. J Hoard & Angela Davis)
    B1. Halfway House
    B2. Landline (Feat. Carlos Overall)
    B3. Darkness in Mind (Feat. Sullivan Fortner)
    B4. The Best of Life (Feat. Aaron Parks)
    B5. Got Me a Plan
    B6. Was She Happy (For Geri Allen) (Feat. Vijay Iyer)

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about

‘I Know You See Me’ is the first offering on Brownswood for Kassa Overall. One of the fastest rising stars of NYC’s legendary jazz scene and a self-described “backpack jazz” artist, he melds the praxis of avant-garde improvisation with hip-hop production techniques.

“Me against the world like Pac in his prime,” Kassa rhymes on the track, which also deals with the injustice of the American carceral system, the struggle for artistic authenticity, as well as the highs and lows of bipolar disorder.

Accompanying Kassa’s hard-hitting message are the haunting vocals of two other rising stars from New York, J Hoard (Anna Wise, Sonnymoon) and Melanie Charles, as well as a heavy bassline loop evocative of west-coast G Funk, contributed by BIGYUKI (J Cole, Kamasi Washington). Melanie Charles and J Hoard’s intertwined vocals weave a rich, yet ethereal soundscape atop Kassa’s multifaceted production style. The composition was conceived and co-written with Overall's long time collaborator, Mike King, who glued the whole piece together on the Mellotron organ.

As Time Out New York frames his talent, Overall is “a Renaissance man: part chopsy, super-funky jazz drummer, and part rising producer-MC.” Since the January 2019 release of his critically acclaimed debut album Go Get Ice Cream and Listen to Jazz, NYC and global audiences have had the opportunity to experience Overall’s singular brilliance, which has been embraced with rave reviews from Afropunk to the New York Times.

Kassa Overall - drums, vocals
J Hoard - vocals
Melanie Charles - vocals
BIGYUKI - synth, synth bass
Mike King - Mellotron
Stephan Crump - acoustic bass

lyrics

You know how I feel
Oh Lord you do
You know how I feel
Only you do
I know you see me
(birds flying high)
In the sunlight,
(Sun in the sky)
I know you hear me,
(Breeze driftin on by)
In the midnight

Welcome to planet earth where if you slip then you die,
Vision full of scars, still they listen to I
Been through a little still it feel like a lot
When I lay down to rest and it feel like a plot
And up and down’s feelin like heaven and hell
Am I in that number, is it stuck in the mail?
The only way to climb is if you try and you fail
It was written in the mud, Lord, I will prevail
I only feel right when I write what I feel
We livin in a jungle don’t frighten the meal
Try to send a message put a pigeon in seal
But they hearing got aids cause they envy is real
Me against the world like Pac in his prime
Water get no enemy unlocking divine
Crossing the line is often sublime
Don’t cough at the officer they tossin em time
It cost em his mind!

This train don’t carry no backsliders this train
This train don’t carry no backsliders this train (no, no)
This train is bound to glory, this train
(this train is bound for glory)
This train is bound to glory, this train

You know how I feel
You know how I feel
I know you hear me, in the midnight
This train is the train, this train

credits

from I THINK I'M GOOD, track released December 4, 2019

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Kassa Overall Seattle, Washington

Kassa Overall is a jazz musician, emcee, singer, producer and drummer.

“One of modern jazz music’s most audacious futurists.” -Pitchfork

“It's not another jazz-meets-hip-hop scrum: It's the sound of whole new lanes opening up.” -NPR, All Things Considered

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