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Hands Down is the tenth studio album by Bob James), released in 1982. This was a turning point in James career, with the tracks "It's Only Me" and "Spunky" being early exponents of electronic jazz. At the time electronica was transforming popular music in reaction to the big orchestrations of the late 1970s. The minimalist tastes of the era were also reflected in "Roberta", which mostly featured James in a piano solo. One track, "Macumba", was a collaboration with songwriter Rod Temperton, held over from James' previous album Sign of the Times. The track "Shamboozie" is sampled by rapper Rakim on the track "Guess Who's Back" from his 1997 debut solo album The 18th Letter. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_D...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)