Released: October 23, 2007
Uploaded: January 13, 2008
Tracklist:
- Intro: Quest For Glory
- I Don't Like To
- What We All Want feat. Kamau & Relic The Oddity
- Brother (Watching) feat. B & F Kabango
[You can listen to this song here]
[You can watch the video for this song here] - Now A Daze
[You can listen to this song here] - The Old Prince Still Lives At Home
- Out Of Love Pt. 2
- The Last Three Years Interlude
- I Heard You Had A Voice Like An Angel / Psalm 137
[You can listen to this song here] - Compromise
- Exile
- Get Up
- Outro feat. Kamau
File Size: 57 MB
INFO: MySpace
INCLUDED:
- Fixed Tracklist
- High Resolution Cover
- All Tracks Are VBR [GroupRip]
London, ON emcee Shad lives up to the potential promised on his debut with a sophomore release that is more mature and cohesive than When This is Over, sounding like an album rather than a collection of songs.
The positive vibe is built around a smooth Native Tongues sound and a loose-based allegory about an old prince who should be king. He touches on several serious subjects such as the hardships of everyday life in “What We All Want”, awkward love in “Out of Love Pt. 2” and, most importantly, not compromising who you are for both “Brother (Watching)” and “Compromise.” He also creates a great extended metaphor with “I Heard You Had a Voice Like an Angel / Psalm 137,” which compares the careers of many commercial artists to the fall of the angel Lucifer. But it's not all just deep and heavy hip-hop; Shad injects light-hearted humour and witty wordplay into many of his most serious songs, and his only truly straight-forward jokey song, “The Old Prince Still Lives at Home,” a song that outs Shad as a cheap scrub, is probably the album highlight. Shad's flipping of two of his most memorable quotables (think Pamela Anderson and Claire Huxtable) are also smile-inducing for fans familiar with his first album.
Shad is still a far way from capturing the charm, charisma and creativity of his live show, but The Old Prince makes a capable attempt to do so and definitely demonstrates the goods that have made a fan of many, including fellow creative emcee Common. And purchasing a copy of The Old Prince not only supports Canadian hip-hop, it helps get Shad out of his parent's house. Is there anything more noble?
By: Thomas Quinlan
I read the above review and found it good, so there you have it, the album's just amazing, definitely in the Top 3 of 2007.
Flow & Lyrics: 10 /10
Beats: 9 /10
Download and enjoy.
2 comments:
I had not heard of Shad until I visited Underground9. I decided to give the album a try and was pleasantly surprised with it. In short, the album was dope. Thanks for the post!
You guys are amazing to find this diamond in the rough...wow
after hearing this i went out to find the first album immediately he is slightly different from what i normally listen to because he is positive and optimistic
His flow, poetry is unique...i have not been this amazed by a rapper since Technique even as they stand on the same road of but on opposite ends the positive and the negative indeed
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