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John Legend In Studio · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: 106.7 Light FM with Cubby and Christine in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Christine is off today. My co-host is sick today. She's very,
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  Speaker 1: very upset, John Legend.
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  Speaker 2: We need a new co-host.
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  Speaker 1: You're it.
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  Speaker 2: John Legend's here.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the friendly confines of 106.7 Light FM.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a hot minute. We were just talking before
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  Speaker 1: the interview started. I first met you in 2004, Ordinary People,
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  Speaker 1: your first single. Wasn't even out yet. And you came
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  Speaker 1: and performed for a bunch of DJs when I was
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  Speaker 1: working at Z100 to showcase Z100. your stuff and man,
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  Speaker 1: how far you've come. Do you remember that moment?
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  Speaker 2: I remember it.
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  Speaker 3: I remember, uh, the, uh, uh, president of the label
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  Speaker 3: or head of promotions at the label.
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  Speaker 2: He would, uh, take me around to.
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  Speaker 3: These radio stations and, uh, I would just, you know,
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  Speaker 3: let people know what I was working on.
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  Speaker 2: And, uh, I was trying to be heard. I was
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  Speaker 2: trying to get my music out there.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the album wasn't even out yet, but, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, Hey, I'll do what I need to
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  Speaker 3: do to make sure the music gets out. And we've
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  Speaker 3: still got to go out there and let people know
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  Speaker 3: that the music is coming out. And I'm so excited
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  Speaker 3: that we've got a new project. It's called Muse, produced
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  Speaker 3: by Pharrell Williams. And I'm so proud of what we've made.
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  Speaker 2: And tell me all the.
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  Speaker 1: People that inspired you for this album.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we talked about Nina Simone. We talked about Nat
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  Speaker 3: King Cole. We talked about Marvin Gaye. We talked about
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  Speaker 3: Frank Sinatra. So there's some elements of those kind of
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  Speaker 3: classics and standards. And then we wanted to do all
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  Speaker 3: that with kind of a hip hop foundation. So 808 Beats,
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  Speaker 3: hip hop drums.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And reading also the songs on Muse, they kind of
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  Speaker 1: follow an imagined relationship through attraction, commitment.
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  Speaker 2: And betrayal. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We wanted to make it kind of cinematic. So the
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  Speaker 3: storytelling is really interesting. And being married with children.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And not the TV show, you yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Being married with children. Love and marriage. How did
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  Speaker 2: that affect the writing?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, we we tried to, like, not make
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  Speaker 3: it about ourselves because both Pharrell and I are married
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  Speaker 3: with four kids each.
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  Speaker 1: And we have one thing in common with kids, by
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  Speaker 1: the way. We both have a son named Miles.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, cool. Love that name. Yes, it's a great name. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And and so we wanted to, like, write a character.
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  Speaker 3: that wasn't either of our wives, but just that kind
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  Speaker 3: of exists, existed out in the world. It was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was like, we wanted it to be kind of cinematic. And, uh,
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  Speaker 3: and so that's, that's really what the storytelling is like in, in,
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  Speaker 3: in the album.
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  Speaker 1: Well, John, I gotta tell you, you've collaborated with everybody, uh,
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  Speaker 1: from Lauren Hill back in the day, Andre 3000, uh,
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  Speaker 1: to Common, Jay-Z, Sam Smith, The Roots. Is there a
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  Speaker 1: dream collaboration out there that, uh, you know, you'd be
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  Speaker 1: completely geeking out over?
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  Speaker 2: If it happened? I was just asked that in my
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  Speaker 2: last interview. My answers will be the same. Well, you
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  Speaker 2: know what? Different demographic.
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  Speaker 3: I said I'd love to work with Kendrick Lamar. I
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  Speaker 3: said I'd love to work with Olivia Dean. That'd be great.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have a surprise for you. Olivia Dean, come
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  Speaker 2: on in. How cool would that be if she walked
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  Speaker 2: in right now? That would be, the planning would be impeccable.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you've played piano. You've sung with some of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest artists in the world. You won a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: awards and performed for huge audiences. But what is the
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  Speaker 1: one thing in your life, with your wife especially, Chrissy Teigen,
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  Speaker 1: what would she say you're absolutely terrible at?
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  Speaker 2: You're so good at everything. What would Chrissy say, you
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  Speaker 2: know what.
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  Speaker 1: You're not good at that, John Legend?
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  Speaker 2: Well, see, there's some things you... I know what my
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  Speaker 2: answer is. Want to not be good at so you
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  Speaker 2: don't get asked to do it all the time. Are
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  Speaker 2: you good at listening? You're like, oh, I'm terrible at
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  Speaker 2: doing the dishes. Oh, no, I can't do the dishes.
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  Speaker 2: But do you ever get yelled at for not listening?
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  Speaker 3: No, she she believes I listen. I think I have
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  Speaker 3: to like. Because sometimes she's on her phone, and I'm like, hey, hello, hello.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so she's in the zone on the phone.
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  Speaker 1: What is a typical night with you guys? Are you
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  Speaker 1: on your phones in bed before you go to bed?
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  Speaker 3: We like to watch shows together, so we like to
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  Speaker 3: watch true crime, documentaries, reality shows.
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  Speaker 2: We like 90 Day Fiancé. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We like to watch TV that is comment worthy, so
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  Speaker 3: we can sit and talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: That's our boy.
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  Speaker 3: We like to roast whatever we're watching. So we're like
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  Speaker 3: making jokes to each other. And yeah, that's a big
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  Speaker 3: part of how we like after the kids go to bed.
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  Speaker 2: That was my question. When do the kids go to bed?
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  Speaker 3: They're like fully in bed and leaving us alone by
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  Speaker 3: eight o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: OK. Yeah. And three hours. Yeah. Like so we'll get
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  Speaker 2: a couple hours to watch something. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're so happy you're back with new music again.
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  Speaker 2: October 23rd is the release, right?
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  Speaker 1: For Muse.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So the new album is called Muse. It's produced
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  Speaker 2: fully by Pharrell Williams. Every song. We wrote every song together,
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  Speaker 2: and it's out October 23rd.
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  Speaker 3: And for New Yorkers, I have my first musical that
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  Speaker 3: I wrote, and you can see it at The Shed.
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  Speaker 3: Or whoever's visiting New York, you can see it at
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  Speaker 3: The Shed from November 21st to January 3rd. It's called
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  Speaker 3: Imitation of Life.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Well, John Legend, you're the same guy that I remember
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  Speaker 1: 22 years ago when I first met you. Down to earth,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm wishing you nothing but success, and congratulations on everything.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.