John Legend and The Roots

John Legend and The Roots - Wake Up!

Genre: R&B

Year: 2010

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Track

Listeners

Hard Times (feat. Black Thought ) (5:16)

310

Compared To What (6:26)

242

Wake Up Everybody (feat. Common & Melanie Fiona ) (4:24)

191

Our Generation (the Hope Of The World) (feat. Cl Smooth ) (3:15)

183

Little Ghetto Boy (prelude) (feat. Malik Yusef ) (1:58)

169

Little Ghetto Boy (feat. Black Thought ) (5:26)

167

Hang On In There (7:15)

151

Humanity (Love The Way It Should Be) (3:49)

180

Wholy Holy (5:50)

147

I Can't Write Left Handed (11:44)

181

I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free (2:42)

198

Shine (4:43)

210

Shine (Waiting For 'superman' Version) (4:29)

167

Wake Up Everybody (Live At Studio Performance) (5:21)

164

About this album

Musical powerhouses John Legend & The Roots present Wake Up!, eleven profoundly evocative songs pulled from the soulful music of the 60's and 70's all with an underlying theme of awareness, engagement and consciousness. The album is highlighted with familiar tracks like "Little Ghetto Boy" by Donny Hathaway mixed with more obscure selections like Baby Huey and the Babysitters' "Hard Times". Wake Up! also includes one original composition, John Legend's "Shine," which is featured in the upcoming documentary Waiting For Superman.