Even 14 hours after the release of While The Iron Is Hot, Ovrkast. is still infectiously chill. To commemorate the drop of his sophomore studio project, the rapper hosted a listening party and panel at the Carhartt WIP store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the night prior. Free and open to the public, the event still felt intimate, like a bunch of old friends catching up over draft beers, half-baked anecdotes, and an on-site screen-printing station pumping out a fresh batch of one-night-only Ovrkast. x Carhartt WIP tees stamped with the slogan "Ready to Strike."

"I gotta stay back here or else I’ll get in my head," the rapper tells me from behind one of the dressing room curtains just 30 minutes before the event was set to start. Attendees don’t even know Kast is here and don’t seem pressed, f

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