<div id=”60ae1″ class=”rm-shortcode” data-rm-shortcode-id=”e1e9ec82a952986ec63310b659ee49f1″><blockquote class=”twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet” data-twitter-tweet-id=”1294498364747284481″ data-partner=”rebelmouse”><div style=”margin:1em 0″>my new single ” Residual Self Image ” featuring my close friend @Ayanda_Jiya is OUT NOW. produced by… https://t.co/aMyHC6jSvp</div> — A-REECE. (@A-REECE.)<a href=”https://twitter.com/reece_youngking/statuses/1294498364747284481″>1597467435.0</a></blockquote></div><p>The verse reveals an A-Reece who has had a paradigm shift and now has different priorities. He raps:<br></p><blockquote><em>”Acknowledgement without the accolades/ still I celebrate ’cause any day could be the last day I hear this record play/ My heart is in a better place, my mind is in a different state/ so I don’t really care what the records make/ how many lives can this record save?/ how many minds can it liberate?”</em></blockquote><p>This somehow explains A-Reece’s recent obsession with <em>The Matrix</em>—he is a different person. A clip from the 1999 sci-fi blockbuster plays between the song’s beat-switch. It’s taken from the scene in which Morpheus has just inducted Neo into the “real world” and tells him, “Your appearance now is what we call residual self-image.”</p><div id=”029c3″ class=”rm-shortcode” data-rm-shortcode-id=”b560e949a3349743d26987f99cdd4086″><blockquote class=”twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet” data-twitter-tweet-id=”1291137508609269768″ data-partner=”rebelmouse”><div style=”margin:1em 0″>https://t.co/LWnufjHvxc</div> — A-REECE. (@A-REECE.)<a href=”https://twitter.com/reece_youngking/statuses/1291137508609269768″>1596666144.0</a></blockquote></div><p>There is no beat-drop on the song until the last few seconds when a second beat kicks in after Ayanda’s mini verse. When he starts rapping again, he is accompanied by a soul sample, again without a proper beat-drop.<br></p><p>A-Reece is clearly not chasing radio airplay with this single which is the third song the Pretoria lyricist has released this year. In January, he released the songs “In Hi$ Image [Exp 1]” and “$elfish [Exp 2]”. Both songs, which have since been deleted from Reece’s SoundCloud page, had no hooks, just Reece rapping impressively throughout.</p><p><div class=”dfp_atf-slot” data-not-loaded=”true”></div><script type=”text/javascript”> checkdfpScripts();
</script></p><p>Stream “Re$idual $elf Image” on <a href=”https://music.apple.com/za/album/re%24idual-%24elf-image-feat-ayanda-jiya/1527776105?i=1527776288″ target=”_blank”>Apple Music</a>.</p><p><br></p><div class=”rm-embed embed-media”><iframe allow=”autoplay *; encrypted-media *;” frameborder=”0″ height=”150″ sandbox=”allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation” src=”https://embed.music.apple.com/za/album/re%24idual-%24elf-image-feat-ayanda-jiya/1527776105?i=1527776288″ style=”width:100%;max-width:660px;overflow:hidden;background:transparent;”></iframe></div><p><br></p><p class=”shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube”> <span style=”display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;” class=”rm-shortcode” data-rm-shortcode-id=”a8a8b75aadff5d663a9bf4503b949107″><iframe type=”lazy-iframe” data-runner-src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/ioQjXhip_XU?rel=0″ width=”100%” height=”auto” frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” style=”position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;”></iframe></span> <small class=”image-media media-caption” placeholder=”Add Photo Caption…”>A-Reece- Residual Self Image</small> <small class=”image-media media-photo-credit” placeholder=”Add Photo Credit…”> <a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioQjXhip_XU” target=”_blank”>www.youtube.com</a> </small> </p>
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