Brownsville rapper Ka has surprise-released a new album, The Thief Next to Jesus. It’s his first in two years and, as usual, it’s not on streaming and is only available as a $20 download from his ...
Remembering the hip-hop artist (and New York City firefighter), who died over the weekend at 52. By Jon Caramanica One of the great joys of being a pop music critic is being able to ingest an artist’s ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kaseem “Ka” Ryan at Pitchfork Music Festival 2014 (Barry Brecheisen/WireImage) Ka, the great Brownsville rapper and producer, died ...
On a stark, somber album rooted in gospel samples, the Brooklyn rapper examines the relationship between Black Americans and Christianity, while seeking a new framework for his own faith. No score yet ...
Like many of his peers in this milieu, Ka was once an also-ran in the hypercompetitive rap industry. He came of age in the Eighties crack era, as he told Red Bull Music Academy in 2016: “Put like this ...
It is always nighttime in the music of the rapper and producer Ka. His songs are set in the wee hours, on dark avenues where bullets fly and on abandoned piers where triggermen dispose of murder ...
Kaseem Ryan, a two-decade New York City Fire Department (FDNY) veteran and beloved husband, died unexpectedly over the weekend. But Ryan, of course, was also Ka, an influential and beloved underground ...
Ka, the great Brownsville rapper and producer, died unexpectedly this week at the age of 52. Today, we revisit his storied discography through our reviews of his most notable albums. “The rapper Ka ...