- hip hop, neo soul, reggae, roots reggae
- 98 min
- 15 tracks
- Columbia
Wake Up! is the first collaborative album and fourth studio album by American R&B recording artist John Legend and hip-hop band the Roots, released September 21, 2010, by GOOD Music and Columbia Records.
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Character
Spare, classical in form, grave and contemporary.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Metacritic 77/100
- AllMusic3/5 ★
- The A.V. ClubB+
- The Guardian4/5 ★
- Los Angeles Times2.5/4 ★
- Mojo4/5 ★
- PopMatters8/10 ★
- Q4/5 ★
- Rolling Stone4/5 ★
- Slant Magazine2.5/5 ★
- Spin6/10
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Tracks
- 1Hard Times5:16
- 2Compared to What6:27
- 3Wake Up Everybody4:25
- 4Our Generation (The Hope of the World)3:16
- 5Little Ghetto Boy (prelude)1:59
- 6Little Ghetto Boy5:26
- 7Hang On In There7:15
- 8Humanity (Love the Way It Should Be)3:49
- 9Wholy Holy5:50
- 10I Can’t Write Left Handed11:44
- 11I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free2:43
- 12Shine4:46
- 13Shine (Waiting for “Superman” version)4:30
- 14Wake Up Everybody (Live in Studio Performance)5:21
- 1In the Studio With John Legend & The Roots25:19
15 tracks, 98 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- John Legend, The Roots
- Label
- Columbia
- Released
- 2010
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD, DVD
- Country
- US
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