Good raps

danny brown verse goes so hard in this one ^ (includes sonic reference)

Big grip, get flipped
Hand over fist, thatā€™s quick
Snake oil salesman with the pitch, thatā€™s slick
Ainā€™t no tellinā€™ when it end
No matter the spin, I know when I got a hit
Thatā€™s it, that shit get sent over the fence
Iā€™m home, another run on the road, look how I slid
I remember the cold and shrugginā€™ 'til I was sore inside the crib

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Obsessed

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rap fans embracing the clairo album to make edits like these has been such a treat

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feels relevant

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Gave this whole tape a few rounds when it first came out. Pretty solid. Love anything The Alchemist does.

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Now I have to share more of The Alchemist.

Boldy, Curren$y and Gibbs are my favorite active rappers. Partial to the midwest guys for sure. And Curren$y is just a legend in my book. Modern day Underground King.

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Curren$y is one of those guys who will pop up as a feature on tracks in recent years, and itā€™s always a highlight. Heā€™s so in his own lane.

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Kaā€™s Days with Dr. Yen Lo and Honor Killed the Samurai are a centerpiece in my tastes in rap music. Through him I got to know Roc Marciano, Mach-Hommy, MIKE and Earl. His approach to music and story are really inspiring to me as an artist.

Rest in peace!

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fuckin heartbreaking, man

was literally asking an NY friend to go to kaā€™s meetup a few weekends back, itā€™s the only way he sells vinyl & apparently gave free hugs tooā€¦nightā€™s gambit was my intro to him, and it resonated deeply. as you said, i was put onto him from a roc marciano & sean price head, and now, like price, thereā€™s this void that no other MC fills

RIP ka

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Iā€™ve been a fan of Roc Marciano since the Flipmode days, and Sean Price nearly as long. Thank you @Irishninja and @Bonsai for reminding me that I need to get acquainted with Ka. Not sure how Iā€™ve missed doing that before.

Another one gone too soon.

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Follow up: damn I waited way too long to listen to Ka. Bread Wine Body Blood immediately goes on my all time bars list. Exactly the type of dusty old production I love too. Beautiful.

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"ever notice itā€™s never no fix, only bring em crack/ainā€™t write gems, but tight with ends, then thŠµy run it back
now I peep why they call it heat, itā€™s just a running track/then itā€™s drink this, smokŠµ that, shit so wack"

ā€¦ 'thatā€™s how a lame floss, til the brain loss from the growing plaque/you say itā€™s safe and play the eighth, canā€™t replace what your soul lack"

woooof

" had enough of every tussle, seeing muscles, where the brains at?/you wanna hurt, those that do us dirt should be the aim, black
FBI and klan kills your leaders, when yā€™all gone pay em back?/if thatā€™s how we move, then iā€™m smooth, yā€™all can stay intact"

the way dude just seemed to drop quotables so effortlessly over these grimy beats, every album was a treat that iā€™d revisit some time later & pick up another thing. like, nightā€™s gambit didnā€™t quite catch me the first playthrough or two it did years later in the early pandemic, around when descendants of cain dropped. same with grief pedigree

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Wow seeing it written out like that reveals how much is actually going on, how much is packed into every line.

Yeah the ease of his delivery is beguiling isnā€™t it. Ka feels like the middle of the Venn diagram between DOOM and Roc Marc.

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This is a great interview with him and it goes deep into who he is and how that informs his approach to rap music as an art form. I highly recommend it, what an inspiring person in so many ways. To me his authenticity is what shines through in the interview and I have a lot of respect for that.

Itā€™s from seven years ago and he talks about those two releases I mentioned, Honor Killed the Samurai and Days with Dr. Yen Lo.

They were several questions in and the interviewer asks: so what do you do for a living? and Heā€™s like yeah Iā€™m a new york fireman.

It is sad that he is no longer with us, you can tell how many of his peers had him as an inspiration. Iā€™ve seen other rappers whose work I value post about him and its heartwarming to see the deep respect people had for him.

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