Notes of a Native Son

At last, a new audio edition of the book many have called James Baldwin's most influential work!

This is Laquan's first and only album under that name, released for the 4th & B'Way/Island label. His lyrics were Afrocentric in nature but after this, he decided to go where the money was profitable and became hardcore/gangsta rapper Poppa LQ and never returned to his righteous ways again. The album also features vocalist Ricky Bell of New Edition/Bell Biv DeVoe. This features the songs "Now's The B-Turn", "Tear Your Soul Out" and "Swing Blue, Sweat Black"

James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name records the last months of this famed American writer's 10-year self-exile in Europe, his return to America and to Harlem, and his first trip south at the time of the school integration battles. It contains Baldwin's controversial and intimate profiles of Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, and Ingmar Bergman. And it explores such varied themes as the relations between blacks and whites, the role of blacks in America and in Europe, and the question of sexual identity.