Wake Up! (John Legend & The Roots album)

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Wake Up! is a collaborative studio album by John Legend and The Roots that reinterprets socially conscious soul and R&B songs from the 1960s and 1970s with contemporary arrangements and political resonance.

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instanceOf collaborative album
studio album
artist John Legend
The Roots
awardReceived Grammy Award for Best R&B Album
basedOn 1960s soul songs
1970s soul songs
socially conscious R&B songs
countryOfOrigin United States
describedBySource music critics
featuresArtist CL Smooth
Common
Melanie Fiona
genre R&B
neo soul
political soul
soul
hasContribution contemporary arrangements of classic songs
hasPart "Compared to What"
"Hang On in There"
"Hard Times"
linked to: “Hard Times”

"Humanity (Love the Way It Should Be)"
"I Can't Write Left-Handed"
"Little Ghetto Boy"
"Our Generation (The Hope of the World)"
"Shine"
"Wake Up Everybody"
linked to: Wake Up Everybody

"Wholy Holy"
linked to: Wholy Holy
hasQuality cover album
politically themed
socially conscious
inspiredBy Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign
intendedAudience listeners interested in political and social issues
language English
mainSubject civil rights
political issues
socially conscious music
narrativeLocation United States
partOf John Legend discography
linked to: John Legend

The Roots discography
performer John Legend
The Roots
producer Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson
John Legend
The Roots
publicationType album
recordLabel Columbia Records
GOOD Music

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