RJD2 is back in action!
Two weeks after celebrating the 10th anniversary of his and Blueprint‘s second Soul Position album, Things Go Better With RJ And Al, the Ohio producer returns with his sixth solo album, Dame Fortune.
Recorded over the past year in Philadelphia—in between STS x RJD2 sessions—RJ delivers an eclectic, thought-provoking piece of work inspired by the city’s soulful history.
“Living in Philly provided a context for a lot of soul music that I had liked,” RJD2 says on the city’s influence on Dame Fortune‘s sound. “I didn’t have any cultural context for this music that I liked—it was just music that I had stumbled across as a beat making nerd. Philly was a place where there were enough people who had the same musical vocabulary that I did, which made the music more than something I had just discovered on my own.”
At 12 tracks, Dame Fortune includes vocals from Son Little (Aaron Livingston), Jordan Brown, Blueprint, and Phonte Coleman—who appears on the standout track, “Saboteur.”
Press play on the album below and proceed to iTunes to cop.
“Saboteur” f. Phonte
