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 ...

After releasing his final album, “The Thief Next to Jesus,” in August, New York-based rapper Ka has died at the age of 52. According to a post to his Instagram profile on Monday, Oct. 14, the ...

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 ...

Underground rapper and firefighter Ka released his album “The Thief Next to Jesus” just two months before his death. Independent Hip-Hop stalwart Ka, known for his DIY approach to music, passed away ...

Over the last four years, the Brooklyn-based Ka has been quietly blessing those in the know with a steady stream of some of the most essential hip-hop coming out of the city today. But this is just ...

The project is his first since 2018's Orpheus vs. The Sirens. Brooklyn rapper Ka is back with another project. This time around, he's enlisted production from a handful of beatsmiths as well as ...

Walking down 125th Street yesterday, I passed a white kid in a Cam’ron T-shirt who looked about Killa Season years old and thought about the power of rap to move a listener who did not experience the ...

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 ...

Navy Blue is an interesting person. He was childhood friends with Earl Sweatshirt and introduced him to Tyler, The Creator, with Earl then returning the favor years later by introducing Navy to the ...