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    Default Rapper "Ka" EXPOSED!

    A Brooklyn-based FDNY captain leads a double life as a hip-hop artist whose songs are peppered with the N-word, drugs, violence and anti-cop lyrics.

    “F- -k them cops and swats with night vision,” he raps under the stage name Ka in a 2013 song. “I see your traps and your plots to dead us, y’all rolling with Kojaks, n- - -a, I got Berettas.”

    In his other life, the gravelly voiced rapper is Kaseem Ryan, 44, a veteran firefighter who commands Engine Co. 235 in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

    But Ka, who has rapped with the Wu Tang Clan’s GZA and whose 2013 album, “The Night’s Gambit,” made The Village Voice’s year-end list of best records, has tried to hide that career for years.

    “I’m living two lives, man. I’m trying to be who I am in the day and then trying to feed my soul at night with being the artist that I want to be,” Ka said in a 2015 interview, without revealing his FDNY job.

    The rapper is on Twitter as @BrownsvilleKa, projecting street cred and an anti-cop image.

    In 2012, he tweeted: “Name 5 different slang words we refer to police in hip hop.” Responses included: jakes, pigs, swine, fuzz and them bytches. Ka “liked” them all.

    Some NYPD members were disgusted that a fellow first responder could utter such language.

    “The biases he portrays through his music are indicative of what he believes or feels,” said Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association.

    “As a New York City firefighter, he should be trying to bring people together rather than fracture relationships, especially in communities of color.”

    Reached at his firehouse, Ryan hung up the phone.

    Ka’s lyrics describe ghetto life, a world of guns, dope and despair.

    “You named them hustlers, killers, fiends, ex-cons. I called them cousins, aunts, pops, moms,” he raps on 2014’s “To Hull and Back.”

    The song “Mr. Officer” bemoans police brutality against black youths. “Why do you wanna see me in a coffin, sir?” he asks.

    Ka says he grew up poor, with 17 people crowded into his grandparents’ Brownsville house. His current life is far less gritty.

    He made $148,558 as a fire captain last year, while selling records, CDs and T-shirts on his Web site. He and his wife, Michelle Valdez, chief creative officer for an entertainment firm founded by Pharrell Williams, own a $1.25 million brownstone in Park Slope.

    Few fellow FDNYers know Ryan as a rapper. “I had no idea he was doing that on the side,” one said. “He’s really not a bad guy. But he shouldn’t be bad-mouthing cops.”

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    New York Post‎ - 13 hours ago

    "FDNY veteran 'bad-mouths' cops in double life as rapper"

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    rapper lawrence arnell from AOTP is a cop too

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    He's a firefighter so fuck it
    More power to him

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    So what? I respect both his job and his music. I don't see why being a FDNY member should prevent him from being critical about society. Nor do I feel the need to know anything about his wife or income. Dude has the right to a private life.

    Dude is completely different from CO Rick Ross cuz Ross' lyrical content portrayed him as a gangsta, which was the exact oppositie of his former job.

    KA has the right to remain critical about society.

    Good on him for saving lives out there.
    Last edited by Rev Jones; 08-22-2016 at 03:04 AM.
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    "Exposed" hahahaha fucking soap drama bullshit.

    So the guy makes dope as fuck music and saves peoples lives. Grew up in the struggle and hates the police? big deal.. fucking Exposed sensationalist bullshit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Towers View Post
    So what? I respect both his job and his music. I don't see why being a FDNY member should prevent him from being critica about society. Nor do I feel the need to know anything about God wife or income. Dude has the right to a private life.

    Ruud is completely different from CO Rick Ross cuz Ross' lyrical content portrayed gum as a gangsta, which was the exact oppositie of his former job.

    KA has the right to remain critical about society.

    Good on him for saving lives out there.





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    Dope.
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    who wrote this faggity article?



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    Good for him, two flourishing careers.

    I guess he doesn't really tour then?


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    Quote Originally Posted by rat fakerman View Post
    who wrote this faggity article?
    Some new York post hack.
    The paper is a conservative rag and generally regarded as a sensationalist collection of garbage designed to line bird cages and collect dog feces. Its the fox news of newspapers.

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    how much u wanna bet, someone close to him told this to NY post

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    Quote Originally Posted by RADIOACTIVE MAN View Post
    how much u wanna bet, someone close to him told this to NY post
    ofcourse, the vampires will always get at you eventually when theres money involved.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dr. Simon Hurt View Post
    Some new York post hack.
    The paper is a conservative rag and generally regarded as a sensationalist collection of garbage designed to line bird cages and collect dog feces. Its the fox news of newspapers.
    oh right - it's a tabloid, smh.

    at least they could have plugged his new album.
    Last edited by rainbow; 08-22-2016 at 10:24 AM.



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    Yeah I think Murdoch owns the post so you know its shit.

    I think they tried to go at Ka about this several years ago...I know I read about this before.

    He recorded a track named firehouse ffs

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