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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Predicate Object
instanceOf collaborative album
studio album
artist John Legend
The Roots NERFINISHED
awardReceived Grammy Award for Best R&B Album NERFINISHED
basedOn 1960s soul songs
1970s soul songs
socially conscious R&B songs
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
describedBySource music critics
featuresArtist CL Smooth NERFINISHED
Common NERFINISHED
Melanie Fiona NERFINISHED
genre R&B
neo soul
political soul
soul
hasContribution contemporary arrangements of classic songs
hasPart "Compared to What" NERFINISHED
"Hang On in There" NERFINISHED
"Hard Times" NERFINISHED
"Humanity (Love the Way It Should Be)" NERFINISHED
"I Can't Write Left-Handed" NERFINISHED
"Little Ghetto Boy" NERFINISHED
"Our Generation (The Hope of the World)" NERFINISHED
"Shine" NERFINISHED
"Wake Up Everybody" NERFINISHED
"Wholy Holy" NERFINISHED
hasQuality cover album
politically themed
socially conscious
inspiredBy Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign NERFINISHED
intendedAudience listeners interested in political and social issues
language English
mainSubject civil rights
political issues
socially conscious music
narrativeLocation United States NERFINISHED
partOf John Legend discography NERFINISHED
The Roots discography NERFINISHED
performer John Legend
The Roots NERFINISHED
producer Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson NERFINISHED
John Legend NERFINISHED
The Roots NERFINISHED
publicationType album
recordLabel Columbia Records
GOOD Music

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