![]() But with Royalty, removed from the demands and delays of a major label and rebounding from the harshest criticism of his solo career, Nash finally has nothing to prove, resulting in some of his most honest work yet. IV Play wasn’t a failure, but by Nash’s standards, it was unprecedentedly un-great its first half in particular felt desperate to prove a point-somewhere in between “I can still hang with the kids” and “the kids aren’t all that great anyway”-that, if not totally inaccurate, wasn’t particularly inviting. But though the EP’s a closer descendent of 1977, in form and content, chronologically it follows IV Play, Nash’s fourth and worst-received studio album. In part, it’s because he’s got no one to answer to but himself these days he left Def Jam in January, and is currently helming Contra Paris, a “designer and culture label” along with longtime partner Tricky Stewart. ![]() There are no such cautionary measures in place for Royalty: The Prequel, the seven-track EP he released for free download, as The-Dream, one day after announcing its existence and a handful of days after his third wedding.
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