John Legend & The Roots – Wake Up! (Tracklist)

I seriously can’t wait for this album!

John Legend and The Roots deliver a Wake Up! call to listeners with their soulful collaborative effort. The 11-track album, due September 21, contains covers of songs from the ’60s and ’70s, including Marvin Gaye’s “Wholy Holy,” Donny Hathaway’s “Little Ghetto Boy,” and the Common and Melanie Fiona-assisted first single “Wake Up Everybody.” The inspiring collection also features one original composition called “Shine,” which serves as the theme for the documentary Waiting for Superman.

“These songs sound so relevant now,” stated Legend. “On most of them, you wouldn’t change a lyric. ‘Wake Up Everybody’ has four verses—the first one is a general statement, the second is about education, third is about health care, and the fourth is about making a better environment. No editing needed.”

01 Compared to What
02 Hard Times
03 Little Ghetto Boy
04 Wake Up Everybody f. Common and Melanie Fiona
05 Our Generation
06 Love the Way It Should Be
07 Hang On in There
08 I Can’t Write Left Handed
09 Wholy Holy
10 I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
11 Shine

Shouts to Rap-Up on the info.

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~ by Shake on July 12, 2010.

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19 Responses to “John Legend & The Roots – Wake Up! (Tracklist)”

  1. damn.

    Kenneth C. said this on July 12th, 2010 at 11:39 am

  2. great music is on its way.

    sir fu**ing left foot said this on July 12th, 2010 at 11:52 am

  3. Can’t wait for this. The only songs I really liked off How I Got Over were the songs with John Legend.

    Alex said this on July 12th, 2010 at 12:04 pm

  4. ahhhh man …
    u know what hip hop is soooo far from dead right now..

    Jetssss said this on July 12th, 2010 at 12:06 pm

  5. I just hope this picture isnt a reflection of the content of the album (BlackThought sitting in the background with J.Legend hogging the spotlight). I trust the Roots’ product, so I doubt it, but its a concern of mine

    YoungB said this on July 12th, 2010 at 12:07 pm

  6. I agree with you YoungB. Black Thought needs to be all over this.

    Looking forward to this, especially the common collabo.

    Steve said this on July 12th, 2010 at 12:09 pm

  7. Definitely can’t wait for this to drop. I thoroughly enjoyed HIGO and getting some more Roots product this year is dope.

    Jax said this on July 12th, 2010 at 12:15 pm

  8. CROOKED I – GANGSTA GUMBO
    CROOKED I – GANGSTA GUMBO

    YAY said this on July 12th, 2010 at 12:18 pm

  9. http://usershare.net/eigflioeit4a
    Chiddy Bang- Sooner Or Later.mp3

    dw said this on July 12th, 2010 at 12:19 pm

  10. I agree with YoungB and Steve. I hope Black Thought has atleast 1 verse on each track. I don’t want it to be all John Legend with The Roots production, and no rapping.

    BAM12393 said this on July 12th, 2010 at 12:21 pm

  11. can’t wait for this

    dunk said this on July 12th, 2010 at 12:31 pm

  12. @dude who said the only songs he liked off HIGO were the john legend songs….

    really dude? album is fire how could those be the ONLY two you liked?

    Justanothercrow123 said this on July 12th, 2010 at 12:41 pm

  13. Their collabos sounded good on The Roots album.

    Epic said this on July 12th, 2010 at 12:42 pm

  14. I need that ‘Wake Up Everybody’ like right now..

    Drizzy Dreidel said this on July 12th, 2010 at 12:45 pm

  15. yesss this is what im talking about. we need more collabs / music like this for the soul

    plex_simplicity said this on July 12th, 2010 at 2:10 pm

  16. We’re all entitled to our own opinions, but Alex are you serious dude? To be honest those two joints with JL are cool. But Black Thought and Blu ripped “the day”. Black killed on the title track as well. No FFWD on HIGO at all…I only hate that it wasnt longer…

    bigswoosh said this on July 12th, 2010 at 2:26 pm

  17. be very interested on hearing their take on I Can’t Write Left Handed

    Tee Max said this on July 12th, 2010 at 6:03 pm

  18. *marks calendeR*

    risen357 said this on July 12th, 2010 at 6:50 pm

  19. This is going to be awesome! Does it get any better than The Roots and John Legend!? I just found out via (http://bit.ly/96GGWe) and am anticipating this one big time. The Roots Picnic this year was amazing and I can only imagine this will be the same for their collaboration.

    Jasmine said this on July 15th, 2010 at 3:09 pm

 

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