| Illicit Fields: Ka’s “Honor Killed the Samurai” | August 22, 2016 |
Max Bell reviews the new album from the Brownsville auteur.
| In the Streets Like Ron O’Neal: Ka’s Superfly Single | January 19, 2016 |
Brownsville champion Ka returns with the perfectly minimalistic "30 Keys."
| “I’m Inspired By Pain” — An Interview with Ka | December 8, 2015 |
The Brownsville representative talks pain, gentrification, New York rap, The Manchurian candidate and much more.
| Ka’s Dead Prophet Report | October 16, 2014 |
Anwar Sabreen does not approve your trite Disney references. Ka is no longer a secret. He is Brownsville’s late bloom comeback story. He went from bowing out of the rat race gracefully, to crafting two critically acclaimed albums back to back. His YouTube channel had been transmogrified into a frigid project cul de sac via a […]
| Some Sink, Some Float: KA’s Surprise EP “1200 B.C.” | July 1, 2014 |
Kyle Ellison asks you to take off that necklace Nice N Smooth Ka has been spoiling us lately and he knows it. Having dropped back-to-back masterpieces in 2012 and 2013, the Brownsville lyricist looked up and saw that he had disciples – and what fun is having disciples if you can’t make them work a […]
| Ka Knows It’s About | November 15, 2013 |
Max Bell knows who killed Harry Crumb. The opening track from Ka’s The Night’s Gambit, “You Know It’s About” sets the tone for the entire record, grounds it in gritty limestone and grout. Ominous guitar chords and thundering, driving drums paint the Brownsville underbelly in the bleakest of blacks, whites, and grays. The sound is steady […]
| Ka, The Dark Night Returns | August 22, 2013 |
Ka is the only artist whose music our staff collectively refused to pirate. Such is the respect for a O.G. who went from Natural Elements to the firehouse, to having the best late career renaissance this side of Juicy J. He is either the last of the Mohican’s or the first of something new. Listening […]
| The Iron Age Starring Ka & Roc Marciano | October 15, 2012 |
Ka and Roc Marc rap in black and white. You are fam or foe. Weight is moving or it’s not. Struggle. Street politics. The pen keeps scribbling. Together, they are De Niro and Liotta in Goodfellas—before the fall, of course. They are camo shorts and crisp black and white tees. It’s the anti ‘bubble-gum backpack […]
| Question in the Form of an Answer: Ka | March 22, 2012 |
I met Ka on a cold windy afternoon on 6th Ave in Manhattan, where he entrenched himself with a small quantity of CDs and vinyl under a storefront that was once Fat Beats NY. In another time this place was a Mecca for underground hip-hop, a venerable destination for both artists and listeners, an iconic […]
| Video: Ka – “Vessel” | February 14, 2012 |
Ka directed and edited this video. He made the beat too. He sealed the blunt wraps and crushed the raps. The grittiest dungeons did not need to be rented. You should listen to Grief Pedigree if you like vice grip rap more than Vice magazine rap.
