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Mike Ladd is an American alternative hip-hop artist. Based in Paris, France, The Guardian once described him as "the king of the hip-hop concept."

Early life
Mike Ladd was born in Boston, Massachusetts. As a child, he lived in India and Zimbabwe for a while. He graduated from Hampshire College. ==Career==
Career
Ladd's debut studio album, Easy Listening 4 Armageddon, was released in 1997. He released Welcome to the Afterfuture in 2000. Nostalgialator was released in 2004. In 2005, he released Negrophilia: The Album, which was inspired by Petrine Archer-Straw's book of the same name. In that year, he also released Father Divine on ROIR. He has also released several collaborative albums with jazz pianist Vijay Iyer. ==Style and influences==
Style and influences
Mike Ladd's influences range from Funkadelic to King Tubby, Minor Threat, and Charles Stepney. ==Discography==
Discography
Studio albumsEasy Listening 4 Armageddon (1997) • Welcome to the Afterfuture (2000) • Gun Hill Road (2000) • Beauty Party (2003) • In What Language? (2003) • Nostalgialator (2004) • Negrophilia: The Album (2005) • Father Divine (2005) • Still Life with Commentator (2007) • Maison Hantée (2008) • Anarchist Republic of Bzzz (2009) • Bedford Park (2010) • Why Waste Time (2012) • ''Holding It Down: The Veterans' Dreams Project'' (2013) • Gain (2016) • Epiphany (2017) • La chose commune (2017) • Visions of Selam (2018) • The Dead Can Rap (2020) • Transatlantic (2023) (with David Sztanke Soundtrack from the Netflix Series) • EXILLIANS (2023) (with MIKE LADD, T.I.E, JUICE ALEEM) Live albumsLive from Paris (2000) EPsVernacular Homicide (2001) • Kids and Animals (2011) Singles • "Blah Blah" (1998) • "5000 Miles" / "Planet 10" (2000) • "Activator Cowboy" (2001) • "Wild Out Day" / "Jet Pack" (2003) • "Housewives at Play" (2004) • "Shake It" (2004) Guest appearancesYoungblood Brass Band - "Peace" from Unlearn (2000) • Mr. Flash - "Basementized Soul" from Le Voyage Fantastique (2001) • Thawfor - "Where Thawght Is Worshipped 2.2" from Where Thawght Is Worshiped (2001) • The Opus - "Where Thawght Is Worshipped 3.0" from 0.0.0. (2002) • Terranova - "Sublime" and "Heroes" from Hitchhiking Non-Stop with No Particular Destination (2002) • Emmanuel Santarromana - "Les Halles" from Métropolitain (2003) • Huge Voodoo - "NYPD Blues" from Affordable Magic (2003) • Sonic Sum - "Films" from Films (2004) • Jackson and His Computerband - "TV Dogs (Cathodica's Letter)" from Smash (2005) • Daedelus - "Welcome Home" from Exquisite Corpse (2005) • Stacs of Stamina - "Baghdad Boogie" from Tivoli (2005) • Blue Sky Black Death - "Long Division" from A Heap of Broken Images (2006) • Coldcut - "Everything Is Under Control" from Sound Mirrors (2006) • Soylent Green - "Eating People" from Software and Hardwar (2006) • dDamage - "Alphabet & Burners" from Shimmy Shimmy Blade (2006) • Mister Modo & Ugly Mac Beer - "Machiavelli vs. Lao Tseu" and "Machiavelli vs. Lao Tseu (Remix)" from ''Mo' Dougly Weird Stories'' (2007) • Apollo Heights - "Missed Again" from Disco Lights (2007) • Grand Pianoramax - "Showdown" from The Biggest Piano in Town (2008) • Arsenal - "Turn Me Loose" from Lotuk (2008) • Solex vs. Cristina Martinez & Jon Spencer - "R Is for Ring-A-Ding" and "Action" from Amsterdam Throwdown King Street Showdown! (2009) • Mister Modo & Ugly Mac Beer with Jessica Fitoussi - "Dirty Finders" from Modonut (2009) • DJ Spooky - "Known Unknowns" from The Secret Song (2009) • U-God - "Lipton" from Dopium (2009) • Mister Modo & Ugly Mac Beer - "Norman Bates" from Remi Domost (2010) • Walker Barnard - "Ooty on Wax" and "Ooty on Wax (Iron Curtis Remix)" from Alacazam (2011) • Grand Pianoramax - "Domestic Bliss" from Smooth Danger (2011) • Birdapres - "Not the Only Man" from Catch an L (2011) • Busdriver - "Electric Blue" from Beaus$Eros (2012) • Mister Modo & Ugly Mac Beer - "Life at the 9th" from Modonut 2 (2012) • Roberto Fonseca - "Mi Negra Ave Maria" from Yo (2012) • Ben Muller - "The Last One to Preach" (2013) • Mister Modo & Ugly Mac Beer - "Wild Gun Mike" from Modonut Invasion (2013) • Dr. John - "Mack the Knife" from Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch (2014) • Nevche - "Rendez-Nous L'Argent" from Rétroviseur (2014) • Uncommon Nasa - "Black Hole" from Written at Night (2017) • R.A.P. Ferreira - "An Idea Is a Work of Art" from Purple Moonlight Pages (2020) • Billy Woods - "Christine" from Aethiopes (2022) RemixesEnrico Macias - "Le Vent Du Sud (Mike Ladd Remix)" from Enrico Experience (2000) • Yo La Tengo - "Nuclear War (Version 4)" (2002) • Antipop Consortium - "Ghostlawns (Mike Ladd Mix)" (2002) • Yameen - "Spirit Walker (Mike Ladd Remix)" from Never Knows More (2009) ==References==
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