The Old Prince

The Old Prince
Studio album by Shad
Released	October 23, 2007
Genre	Canadian hip hop
Label	Black Box Recordings
Shad chronology
When This Is Over (2005) The Old Prince (2007) TSOL (2010)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Robert Christgau	[1]
Okayplayer	[2]
RapReviews	(10/10) [3]
Sputnikmusic	[4]

The Old Prince is the second album by Canadian rapper Shad, released October 23, 2007 on Black Box Recordings. On June 30, 2009, it was re-released on iTunes on the same label.^[5]

Singles

Videos have been made for four tracks from the album, "I Don't Like To", "Brother (Watching)", "Compromise" and "The Old Prince Still Lives At Home". The video for "The Old Prince Still Lives at Home", a spoof of the opening credits to the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel Air with Shad playing the role of Will Smith, won CBC Radio 3's 2008 Bucky Award for Best Video.

Award nominations

• The album was nominated for Rap Recording of the Year at the 2008 Juno Awards, but lost to Belly's The Revolution.

• The album was nominated for the 2008 Polaris Music Prize.^[6]

Track listing

1. "Intro: Quest for Glory"
2. "I Don’t Like To"
3. "What We All Want" (feat. Kamau and Relic the Oddity)
4. "Brother (Watching)" (feat. 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" (feat. Kamau)

References

1. ^ Robert Christgau review
2. ^ Okayplayer review
3. ^ RapReviews review
4. ^ Sputnikmusic review
5. ^ Shad - The Old Prince
6. ^ Polaris Music Prize