The emotion is enormous in Brooklyn, this New York district in the heart of which he had always lived: the rapper, producer and firefighter Kaseem Ryan, better known under the pseudonym Ka, died “suddenly” on Saturday October 12, 2024 at the At the age of 52, his loved ones announced on his Instagram account.
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“Born and raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Ka lived a life of service – to his city, to his community and to his music. A twenty-year veteran of the New York City Fire Department, he risked his life to protect his fellow citizens,” said the message, specifying that the deceased had been “one of the first responders on September 11, 2001 during the World Trade Center attacks.
A prolific career
The Parisian recalls that the rapper, who self-produced eleven solo albums, leaves an “extraordinary (musical) legacy”; and that he had been, in the early 1990s, a member of the New York rap group Natural Elements then of the duo Nightbreed, with the late Kev (who died in a road accident in 2015).
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Titled The Thief Next To Jesushis last album was released in August 2024. The press release from his loved ones specifies that his disappearance plunges his wife, his mother and his sister into mourning.
