John Legend and the Roots: hearts, minds and soul

John Legend and the Roots' album of 60s and 70s protest songs is no mere history lesson – it's an open letter to a divided America, they tell Angus BateyAhmir "?uestlove" Thompson (pronounced with a "q"), leader of hip-hop band the Roots, is standing in the basement of a Greenwich Village record shop, flicking through a rack of secondhand 7in vinyl. "We spoke on it first," he says, explaining the genesis of his group's latest collaboration with R&B star John Legend, "and then I guess the secon...

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