Mike Ladd

Published in 2000, "Negrophilia" the book, by art historian Petrine Archer-Straw, is a study
of jungle fever: the hunger for and co-opting of American black expression after World
War I by a Parisian avant-garde besotted with hot jazz and Josephine Baker. Negrophilia
[The Album] is poet-programmer Mike Ladd's spin through the same muddied waters --
envy, prejudice, assimilation -- in a new, hip-hop century. Ladd is uncommonly t... More >