{"id":13544,"date":"2010-06-26T12:37:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T10:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/?p=13544"},"modified":"2010-06-26T12:37:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T10:37:01","slug":"john-legend-the-roots-our-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/john-legend-the-roots-our-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"John Legend &#038; The Roots &#8211; Our Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100%\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/0xWlMBAZaw4&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xd0d0d0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Legend &amp; The Roots re-craft a lost classic by the great, yet somehow underappreciated, soul singer Ernie Hines. Mississippi-born, Hines grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana where he got his start singing in the church. Soul music eventually caught his interest and the singer\/guitarist ended up playing with the likes of Lowell Fulsom and Clyde McPhatter. In 1970 he signed to the legendary Stax label, where he recorded \u201cOur Generation.\u201d Like much of that era\u2019s music, Hines\u2019 song doesn\u2019t give in to the tumult and conflict of the times, refusing to be consumed by it and offering a call to young people to make the world a better place. It\u2019s raw and soulful and honest.<\/p>\n<p>Legend and The Roots\u2019s modern interpretation of \u201cOur Generation\u201d retains the all of the authenticity of the original track: It gets funky from the outset, with big fat brass and an ice cold keyboard vamp, inspirational backing singers and a particularly gritty vocal by Legend who reiterates Hines\u2019s 40-year-old message about making the future better by \u201cgetting rid of all the hate&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Latest in the series of <em>Levi\u2019s Pioneer Sessions<\/em> campaign. You can download the song <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levispioneersessions.com\/artists\/john-legend-the-roots\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previous: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/nas-hey-young-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nas<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackouthiphop.com\/raphael-saadiq-its-a-shame\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raphael Saadiq<\/a> on <em>Levi\u2019s Pioneer Sessions<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legend &amp; The Roots re-craft a lost classic by the great, yet somehow underappreciated, soul&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-download","category-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pG6fW-3ws","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackouthiphop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}