\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div> \n\tAll over the album, he faces up to the day-to-day adult challenge of keeping inspiration alive, as a grizzled legend with a lot of history behind him but restless to go somewhere new.\u00a0\u201cStart and start and start again,\u201d he raps in the industrial-trap banger \u201cMake It Stop.\u201d \u201cWhat stays is always change.\u201d He sounds vulnerable here, pondering loss and fatherhood and mortality \u2014 as he puts in \u201cWhat We Got,\u201d\u00a0 \u201cLost in the mosh pit\/Pressure in the cockpit.\u201d But he\u2019s mostly out to let loose and have some fun, as in high-energy funk highlights like \u201cSecret Pt 2\u201d and \u201cTrue Colors.\u201d He also rips into modern greed culture with the furious techno-blare of \u201cCrypto.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tBut the emotional powerhouse is the title track, \u201cThank You,\u201d where Mike D reflects on where he\u2019s been, over poignant acoustic guitar with a touch of bossa nova. He recalls the early days of the Beasties, when \u201cwe were just kids\/We were just figuring it out, working it out.\u201d Those memories are encoded deep in the music as well as his voice \u2014 the sound isn\u2019t far from the Hello Nasty <\/em>meditation \u201cI Don\u2019t Know.\u201d He sounds vulnerable, a bit mournful, but dazed by gratitude. By the end, he\u2019s repeating the message \u201cThank you for having me,\u201d singing it to his old friends, his audience, and no doubt, to his younger self. Mike D sounds reflective about the adventures he\u2019s had \u2014 but the most thrilling thing about this album is how he sounds hungry for more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n