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Prelude (Live)John Legend

Released: June 19, 2020

[Intro: John Legend & Alicia Keys]
So I came on the scene in 2004
After, you know, a couple features
Kanye's album College Dropout comes out in February
And then all the labels that were turnin' me down before, they were like
"Oh, um, now that Kanye's sold this many records
I think it's time to sign the next thing out of his camp"
And so we come back with the same demo that we had before (And he was like, "Wow!")
But all of a sudden it sounded so much bеtter ("Wow!")
All these songs that madе my album Get Lifted were pretty much done by then
Including this one (Mm)

[Verse: John Legend & Alicia Keys]
Come on and go with me (See?)
There's something new for you to see
Come on and go with me, yeah
There's something new for you to see
Just relax
Just relax (Mm)

[Outro: John Legend & Alicia Keys]
And then we put my first single out
And it's a good breakup song, here we go (Hit it)

John Legend

John Legend was born in 1978 in Ohio. He became an in-demand session musician and songwriter, working with such artists as Alicia Keys, Twista and Janet Jackson. He was soon introduced to up-and-coming hip-hop artist Kanye West, and the two musicians collaborated on one another’s demos.

J. Ivy claims credit for bestowing the “Legend” moniker upon John Stephens (with an assist from Kanye West). Via

Kanye was like, ‘Have you heard of this singer called John Stephens?’ He played me this song from him, that I think will.i.am produced. It was so refreshing and soulful. An hour later, John Stephens comes into the studio. I told him, ‘I heard your music. It’s so amazing. It sounds old school. Man, you sound like one of the legends. You’re a legend. Matter of fact, that’s what I am going to call you from now The Legend. A couple days later, we were in the lounge of the studio (Record Plant) and John Stephens walks in and everyone shouts him out. I was like, ‘John Legend!’ Kanye then said, ‘You’re John Legend from now on. That’s your name!’”

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