A Martyr's Reward is a Hip-Hop album by KA, originally released in 2021. On Gatefold: 3 pressings tracked.
About
The 49-year-old Brownsville rapper cuts a mythic figure: Raised on the mean streets of ’70s Brooklyn, he now splits his time between being a NYC fire captain and crafting dense rap allegories that touch on Greek mythology and the code of the samurai. But on <i>A Martyr’s Reward</i>, Ka strips down everything—the mythology, the production—to tell his own story, unembellished, over hauntingly minimalist (and mostly self-produced) beats. But it isn’t just his story; it’s the story of surviving being Black in America—or, in the cases of too many of his friends, not surviving. And on “I Need All That,” he demands retribution: “I want back everything they took/My culture, my music, my look.”
via Apple Music
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Tracklist
- 1Everybody Up2:48
- 2I Need All That3:51
- 3Peace Peace Peace2:53
- 4Sad to Say2:13
- 5P W H2:16
- 6I Notice3:21
- 7Like Me4:09
- 8We Living/Martyr4:32
- 9Subtle2:14
- 10With All My Heart2:59
- 11Enough Praise/Recovering5:12
- 12Be Grateful2:21
- 13Having Nothin'2:22
Sound DNA
- Hip-Hop
- East Coast
- sparse
- meditative
- nocturnal
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- JoiFEATURING VOCALS
- Navy BlueFEATURING
Rare pressing on Gatefold · 3 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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