It's no secret to any of you that know me personally or that used to read the Supa Fresh! blog (R.I.P.) that I'm a diehard Roots fan. I treasure the day I had the pleasure to meet and spin with ?uestlove and to greet my Hip Hop superhero and all time favourite MC (or at least top 3) Black Thought.
The new joint off the John Legend & The Roots Wake Up! album "Hard Times" (a remake of the Curtis Mayfields original) is a heartfelt, energy driven, headnodic anthem for the troubled strugglers of the big city and it grasped my inner ticker like a bad ass lion on a gazelles ass! I love it when artists don't just try to re-make the originals but actually take them to a whole different place making the tracks they're own by adding they're personal flava and energy to them:
(Click the arrow on the right side of the player to download the track but please do your share in supporting good music as well by copping the album and hittin up the live show if John Legend or The Roots drop by your neck of the woods)
I'm anxious to check out Wake Up! (out September 21) and to figure out what else The Roots and John Legend been cookin up but judging by the previous leaks and the first video it's gonna be a hell of a ride!
BONUS 1: John Legend & The Roots - Shine (off the Wake Up! album out September 21):
BONUS 2: The video to John Legend & The Roots Ft. Melanie Fiona & Common - Wake Up Everybody (off the Wake Up! album out September 21):
BONUS 3: Trip back memory lane, spinning with Questlove and my girl Dj Purple at Supa Fresh! the weekly thursday club I ran out in Oslo (Norway) for 4 years:
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