Mike Ladd - Nonechosen [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: BWZ820CD
Barcode: 850063560764
Release Date: 20 Nov 2026
Genre: Hip-Hop & Rap

Mike Ladd. Those who know say the name with a certain reverence. If you will allow an imperfect analogy, Ladd is underground hiphop’s Terrence Malick: an uncompromising auteur whose early work was both unconventional and critically acclaimed before he abruptly withdrew from the scene he helped build and decamped to Paris, never to be heard from again. Of course, the reality is more complex than the legend. Mike Ladd never stopped making music; over the years he’s popped up on all sorts of unexpected collaborations—who could forget his searing appearance on billy woods’ Aethiopes—soundtracked a Netflix series, and worked with visual artists in settings like the Pantheon in Paris. That’s not even counting all the stages he ripped as part of various touring bands and live acts. Still, Ladd’s last solo album was more than ten years ago, and his magnum opus Welcome to the Afterfuture dropped in early 2000. If we are going to follow the analogy, Nonechosen is Mike Ladd’s The Thin Red Line. A granite testament to th

TRACKLISTING
1. Son as Berry Gordy
2. Pest
3. Rawbridge (w/ Mankwe Ndosi)
4. Breakfast
5. Afro Teninbaum
6. Stop Tape (w/ Seraphim)
7. Lunch
8. Time Has (Sam Bass Florian Drums)
9. Toodles (w/ Iron)
10. Twenty Five (w/ Tom De Geeter)
11. Clip Check (w/ Aristide Goncalves & Carol Robinson)
12. Dinner
13. Face Eaters
14. Murder Is
15. Unsuicide
16. Last Chopper (w/ Ethenesh Wassie & Mathieu Sourisseau)