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Ka: Descendants of Cain Nobody can describe Brooklyn like Ka. “It’s D-Day each week in BK, you see us here grimacin’/Never marinate on beef you don’t plan on finishing,” he raps, with nonchalant gravity, on his latest album, Descendants of Cain.
Listening to the fortysomething Brownsville-raised rapper is often an intense experience, and he never wastes a bar. But even if I’m not in the mood to parse his dense wordplay, which weaves mythological and biblical references into stories from his everyday life, I’ll still immerse myself in his
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