This is a great album that was recommended to me by a member on Yahoo Answers (click member for link to profile). I didn’t know what to expect from this album when I decided to get it.
His style can be very serious in some songs and in others he can be goofy. He has a clean vocab for those that don’t like explicit lyrics. The albums production is good & lyrically the album is great.
The album starts off with the fact that Prince’s aren’t supposed to be old. Then he starts off rapping about Gas Prices, Quebec separatism & Religion, to name a few. Shad doesn’t want to rap about the usual so he picks other topics. The one thing I didn’t like is that a lot of his songs didn’t really go with the “Old Prince” Theme but his rapping is very enjoyable.
The album has been nominated for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize
The album was nominated, but lost for Rap Recording of the Year at the 2008 Juno Awards
1. Intro: Quest for Glory
2. I Don’t Like To
3. What We All Want (ft. Kamau and Relic the Oddity)
4. Brother (Watching) (ft. B and F Kabango)
5. Now A Daze
6. The Old Prince Still Lives At Home
7. Out of Love Pt. 2
8. The Last Three Years Interlude
9. I Heard You Had a Voice Like An Angel / Psalm 137
10. Compromise
11. Exile
12. Get Up
13. Outro (ft. Kamau)
those are links to the official videos
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