Ka, the New York City rapper and producer who also served as a captain in the New York City Fire Department, has died. He was 52. The artist, born Kaseem Ryan, died Saturday in New York City, his ...
Social networks laid the foundation for the careers of many stars who are known to a huge number of people today. Applications such as Instagram, YouTube and TikTok have provided an opportunity to ...
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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 ...
Brownsville rapper Ka has just dropped his latest album, A Martyr’s Reward, where the 48-year-old rapper laments about his rugged past and spins tales of the way he made it out. Ka rarely traverses ...
Ka is one of rap's great mythic cult heroes: A Brooklyn native who was once a prospect on New York's underground rap scene and who has now retreated from that world, simply releasing his own intensely ...