RJD2 Returns With New Album Dame Fortune, Shares “Peace of What”

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Producer RJD2 has announced his latest album, Dame Fortune. The follow-up to 2013′s More Is Than Isn’t (as well as last year’s collaborative LP with Philadelphia rapper STS) arrives March 25 via his own label, RJ’s Electrical Connections.

Recorded in Philadelphia, the record features collaborations with Phonte Coleman (of Little Brother and the Foreign Exchange), Son Little, Blueprint, Josh Krajcik, and Jordan Brown. Brown appears on “Peace of What,” the album’s first single, which was inspired by Main Source’s “Peace Is Not the Word to Play.” Listen to it above, via Complex.

“When I hear people talk of peace in America, the discrepancy between our words and our actions can get fatiguing,” RJD2 said about the track in a press release. “I was trying to reflect the experience of people I know, which often feels like, ‘We’re not ACTUALLY trying to do anything about this problem in our country.’”

Krohn has also announced a North American tour behind Dame Fortune. Find a full itinerary below.

Here’s what RJD2 had to say about Philly’s influence on the record in a press release:

Living in Philly provided a context for a lot of soul music that I had liked. 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.  

Dame Fortune:

01 A Portal Inward
02 The Roaming Hoard
03 Peace of What [ft. Jordan Brown]
04 The Sheboygan Left
05 A New Theory
06 We Come Alive [ft. Son Little]
07 PF, Day One
08 Saboteur [ft. Phonte Coleman]
09 Your Nostalgic Heart and Lung
10 Up in the Clouds [ft. Blueprint]
11 Band of Matron Saints [ft. Josh Krajcik]
12 Portals Outward

RJD2:

01-12-13 Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Bowl
01-30 Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
02-20 Austin, TX – Empire Garage
02-27 Pittsburgh, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre
03-11 Lancaster, PA – Chameleon Club
04-08 Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom
04-09 San Francisco, CA – The Independent
04-29 Chicago, IL – Metro
05-28 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer
05-29 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club

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