{"id":793,"date":"2015-04-01T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T07:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/?p=793"},"modified":"2022-01-12T16:25:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T23:25:49","slug":"rjd2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/rjd2","title":{"rendered":"Episode 34:  RJD2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subhead\">&#8220;Games You Can Win (featuring Kenna)&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SongExploder34-600x298.png\" alt=\"SongExploder34\" width=\"600\" height=\"298\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SongExploder34.png 600w, https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SongExploder34-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/songexploder.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/SongExploder34-560x278.png 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" width=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/play.prx.org\/e?uf=https%3A%2F%2Ff.prxu.org%2Fsong-exploder%2Ffeed-rss.xml&#038;ge=a60966b7f25540c337d9bbe8ed329cb3\"><\/iframe>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"download-links\">DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/rjd2-games-you-can-win-feat.\/id788236947?i=338899222&#038;mt=2?&#038;uo=4&#038;at=10lMg6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTUNES<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/dts.podtrac.com\/redirect.mp3\/dovetail.prxu.org\/song-exploder\/7de461f4-2585-4a0e-b258-ce6cf3da254b\/SongExploder34_RJD2_DT.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MP3<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rjd2.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RJD2<\/a> has been making music since 2002. His song &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=phnIXtJBI5E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Beautiful Mine<\/a>&#8221; was turned into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WcRr-Fb5xQo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opening credits music for Mad Men<\/a>. He\u2019s a producer and beatmaker, but also a singer and songwriter. But for the vocals on the song &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/games-you-can-win-feat.-kenna\/id344154860?i=344155221&#038;uo=4&#038;at=10lMg6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Games You Can Win<\/a>,&#8221; he tapped <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kenna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenna<\/a>, a Grammy-nominee who <a href=\"http:\/\/gladwell.com\/blink\/blink-reading-guide-chapter-five\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malcolm Gladwell wrote about in Blink<\/a>. In this episode, you\u2019ll get to hear the parts that make up the track, as well as the unreleased demo vocals that RJ originally recorded himself.<\/p>\n<p>Buy &#8220;Games You Can Win&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/games-you-can-win-feat.-kenna\/id344154860?i=344155221&#038;uo=4&#038;at=10lMg6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For a transcript of this episode, <a href=\"http:\/\/songexploder.net\/transcripts\/rjd2-transcript.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"header\">footnotes<\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_Hwlh1GPUmk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;#1 Soul Brother&#8221; by Pete Rock<\/a><br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"25\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Hwlh1GPUmk?rel=0&#038;showinfo=0&#038; modestbranding=1&#038;theme=light&#038;autohide=0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/br>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"endsign\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Games You Can Win (featuring Kenna)&#8221; DOWNLOAD: iTUNES \u00b7 MP3 RJD2 has been making music since 2002. 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But for the vocals on the song &#8220;Games You Can Win,&#8221; he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-episode"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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