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 ...

Kaseem Ryan, a two-decade New York City Fire Department (FDNY) veteran and beloved husband, died unexpectedly over the weekend. But Ryan, of course, was also Ka, an influential and beloved underground ...

It is always nighttime in the music of the rapper and producer Ka. His songs are set in the wee hours, on dark avenues where bullets fly and on abandoned piers where triggermen dispose of murder ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In December 2016, Ka posted a photo of a newspaper clipping to his Twitter account. It was a short item about the Cuban American artist Carmen Herrera, who, at the age of 101, had recently received ...