I love this track.
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There -- I said it. And I'll repeat -- I love this track.I'm always on the prowl for something that moves me, and on a somewhat irregular basis, a song or album quenches my thirst.When Deadringer came out, I was one happy son-of-a-masshole. There was so much diversity on the album, and plenty of heavy hip-hop rhythms for me to sink my quite effective molars into.One song in particular stuck out like a water fountain in the desert -- that song being Final Frontier. The beat is perfect, or if you think otherwise, near-perfect. I was also introduced, unknowingly at the time, to Blueprint.Fast-forward to whenever I discovered Soul Position. And then a few more years until this particular album I'm writing about was released. Forget about classic SP songs like 'Mic Control' and 'Run' -- this newest creation was and still is amazing. Hand Me Downs.I've written much about lo-fi beats that are 'great', but there are only a handful of songs in my collection that get an unhealthy amount of attention from my ears. Hand-Me-Downs is one of them.I could care less about Blueprint here; however, don't take that to mean I'm discrediting his work. It's just that hi s lyrics and flow do not take the cake over the beat.What RJ did here is fantastic. What do I like about it? Here we go: -- The verse beat is subdued but still relevant. It perfectly compliments the vocal elements. -- The horns? The horns. Need I say more? These horns are killer-cool. Cool like garlic mashed potatoes and the lighted keyboard below my hands. Yup, both of those things are also killer-cool. -- The snare drum. This snare sound could be used in every song and it would never get the least bit dusty and old to me.To summarize my opinion: If you don't have this song, GO FIND IT RIGHT NOW.- C




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