KA

Descendants Of Cain

This one is for all the lovers of poetry, storytelling & wordplay.

KA is truly a born poet. He parallels the street life in his native Brownsville, Brooklyn, still today one of NYC's roughest neighborhoods, with the biblical story of Cain's descendants, as the album's title suggests. The result is an extremely dense and introspective listen, ripe with Ka's patented double entendres and quasi-spoken word delivery.

For critics of KA's "sleepy" tone, I'm afraid he pretty much ... read more

Ka strikes the underground with Madvilliany levels of resonance.

Similar to Jay's "A Written Testimony" Ka borrows from religious scripture and relates the material to his own points of view. This time Ka leaves no room for error as he raps over some of his darkest production yet.

Descendants Of Cain is Brownsville, NYC emcee/producer Ka's seventh studio album, following 2018’s Orpheus vs. The Sirens, which he made with producer Animoss. Descendants of Cain is his first album under the name Ka since 2016’s Honor Killed the Samurai. He has been responsible for a couple of the best Hip Hop albums released in the 2010s, especially his last two albums as Ka are low-key classics that have gained him a host of loyal fans.

Following the solid Grief Pedigree (2012), ... read more

After seeing the amount of praise this album had been garnering online I must admit my hopes were extremely high yet I also didn't know what to expect as I had never previously listened to any projects from Ka but I have to admit that while I do think this is a good album overall, it definitely failed to wow me in any way.

There's one thing about 'Descendants of Cain' that I cannot deny: it is incredibly strong in the lyrical departament. Yet alas for me the only reason I would revisit this ... read more