John Legend & The Roots- Hard Times (Live @ Highline Ballroom, NYC) [Video]

On December 7th, John Legend and The Roots played at the Highline Ballroom for their latest gig in celebration of Rolling Stone’s Playlist Issue. Here’s some footage of John and the crew performing “Hard Times,” off the Grammy nominated album Wake Up, in stores now. Word is that ?uest also did his thing on the ones & twos for about an hour straight.

John Legend- Our World Interview [Video]

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill (the same guy who O’reilly called drug dealer), the newest host of the Sunday show ‘Our World’, sat down with John Legend last week for a quick Q&A speaking on everything from his start in the game, his ups and downs before signing to Columbia Records, Kanye’s role on his career, his latest cover-album Wake Up! with The Roots, and some talk of politics.

John Legend On Building Mosque Near “Ground Zero” [Video]

Hard Knock TV’s Nick Huff Barili recently caught up with R&B singer John Legend to get his thoughts/feelings on the ‘controversial’ Mosque being built two blocks away from Ground Zero. As always, John has some food for thought.

John Legend’s Wake Up Hits Stores September 21st

The official press release has been sent out for John Legend’s upcoming album Wake Up with The Roots. The upcoming CD will be released on September 21st (via Sony/Columbia), and will feature soulful music from the 60′s and 70′s. If it’s anything like Raphael Saadiq’s album, then I’ll will definitely enjoy this. Hit the jump to check out more information (press release) about the album.