Ka, who has put out two of the best albums hip-hop albums of the past few years (Grief Pedigree, The Night's Gambit), re-teams up with Preservation, with whom he put out the excellent (but far too short) 1200 B.C. EP a few months back. This might be Ka's most minimalist release yet. By critics, he's often grouped with Roc Marciano and $am Hill, as all are New York rappers who favour quietly sinister raps and no-frills beats, preferring to leave clutter at the door and try to come up with something potent and focused every time they record, but Ka has always been a bit more abstract and aloof than those two, less ghetto documentarian and more omnipresent street poet. (There are, of course, many sonic similarities, and the three have all collaborated with each other with varying degrees of frequency, so the link makes a lot of sense.) I still prefer Roc Marciano, who might just be the most vivid writer currently active in hip-hop, but Ka has definitely carved his own lane with his oblique rhymes, and by subsequently putting them to music that is somewhat cleaner than the gritty fare served up by the other two, and possibly even more streamlined. And, as I said earlier, this is perhaps his most minimalist release yet (where Roc Marci's music is often practically beatless, this is often quite literally beatless). It's dope and you should listen to it because it's dope. Sample below:
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