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Super Bowl Sunday Open Thread with D Train

February 1, 2015 by Miranda 194 Comments

Good Super Bowl Morning POU!

Remember D Train?
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Did you know the name comes from the nickname of musician/lead singer James Williams?  He attended Erasmus High School in Brooklyn and played Defensive Tackle on the high school football team. It was here that he earned the nickname D Train after the well-known MTA Brooklyn subway line because, according to the team’s captain, buy viagra sainsburys “When he hits you, it’s like being hit by a train”.

The nickname stuck. While working on a project with his classmate, R&B singer Will Downing, D Train was introduced to musician/producer Hubert Eaves III. The duo broke out as an R&B Group under the “D Train” name.

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