| A Year in the Life of Douglas Martin: 2016 Edition | January 4, 2017 |
Douglas Martin breaks down his year in music.
| 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."
| Rap Up for the Week of 1.15.16 | January 15, 2016 |
New rap music from Kanye West & Madlib, Freddie Gibbs, Ka, Isaiah Rashad, and some neo-soul from Kendrick Lamar.
| “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.
| You Do Not Want That Old Thing Back: Moving On With New New York in 2015 | December 19, 2014 |
If Brian Josephs was the Big Apple, he'd be hard to the core. And he'd make sure Ka was king, and all was good.
| 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 […]
