Just last week, I wrote about The Roots and John Legend teaming up for a new album called Wake Up Everybody. I also embedded a song from The Roots new album How I Got Over called The Fire, which features John Legend.
Now, that song has a video. Questlove tweeted out this message earlier today:
if ever i needed the power of 1.3 million RTs and you claim you love The Roots its NOW http://youtu.be/n94URvpQOAc #HIGO (WATCH THE VIDEO!)
How about I do him one better? Since The Roots’ new album is the leader in the clubhouse for my favorite album of 2010, I’ll embed the video below.
Recently, as in the last day or so, a previously unreleased Lauryn Hill track was leaked and as is usually the case with anything unreleased by an artist of Hill’s stature, the Internet blew up.
Ok, I’m hyperbolizing a bit and I think I just created a new verb. What makes this more intriguing than most leaks is that Hill’s career is as mysterious as a previously unreleased track itself.
After being one of the most revered artists in the late 90s, her career went off the deep end.
There was that infamous unplugged album that she dropped in the early 2000s that showed her in a stage of her life that was much different from the perception of what a brilliant artist should be. She seemed, well, crazy. And she was fine with showing that.
Then there was the supposed Fugees reunion that started and stopped. There was even an iTunes single called Take It Easy that left a lot to be desired. Wyclef and Pras both publicly blamed the situation on Hill and said she was hard to work with and never on time.
But recently, there has been hope for Lauryn fans. She has started performing live here and there and is slated for the Rock The Bells tour. The timing of this unreleased track is interesting simply because it seems that she’s trying to come back into the public eye, even if it’s been in slow motion so far.
This song is probably not necessarily “new”, because supposedly Lauryn has a ton of unreleased material from previous restarts of her career that stopped for whatever reason.
Wake Up EverybodyIt’s been a few weeks since I last heard about a soulful project being cooked up by John Legend and The Roots. As it turns out, it’s a cover album of old soul songs called Wake Up!, which is supposed to drop sometime in the fall.
Be the first to listen to me & the Roots’ new track “Wake Up Everybody” feat. Common & Melanie Fiona.
The single was posted on People Magazine’s website which you can listen to here.
The Roots/John Legend combination is also featured on the new (and soon to be classic) Roots album How I Got Over. On Doin’ It Again, the Roots sample Legend’s voice from his 2006 track Again, and then feature him on their latest single, The Fire.
If you haven’t heard The Fire, check the YouTube video below:
