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 came up as a 1970s baby out of Brownsville, New York, a crucial place and age to live through a wave of creative revolution that spanned from Slick Rick to Wu-Tang.
By the time 2008's Iron Works finally got his career catalyzed again after years of struggling with his own creative ambivalence, the means of expression he carried with him for most of his life had the added weight of a well-documented style's celebrated past.
Ka's voice is a bit subdued, often affectless, and quietly straightforward-not an easy way to get a fickle listener's attention. You can get a grasp of his thought process and the nuanced emotions that drive them.
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