About this record
Mike Ladd returns with Nonechosen, his first solo album in more than a decade. Released through Backwoodz Studioz, the record combines his literary, experimental approach to hip-hop with atmospheric production and themes surrounding climate collapse, empire, Black history, survival, family and mortality.
Ladd produced the majority of the album himself before handing the nearly completed project to Preservation, whose additional touches helped shape the final sound. Across 16 tracks, Nonechosen moves between fragmented beat sketches, spoken-word intensity and deeply reflective writing, with contributions from longtime collaborators including No Surrender, Tom De Geeter, Mankwe Ndosi and others.
Side A
Son as Berry Gordy
Pest
Rawbridge (w/ Mankwe Ndosi)
Breakfast
Afro Teninbaum
Stop Tape (w/ No Surrender)
Lunch
Time Has (w/ Samuel Hirsch & Florent Berteau)
Toodles (w/ Iron)
Side B
Twenty Five (w/ Tom De Geeter)
Clip Check (w/ Aristide Goncalves & Carol Robinson)
Dinner
Face Eaters
Murder Is
Unsuicide
Last Chopper (w/ Ethenesh Wassie & Mathieu Sourisseau)
- Artist
- Mike Ladd
- Format
- LP
- Label
- Backwoodz Studioz
- Genre
- Hip-Hop / Rap
- Out
- 13 November 2026
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