Wake Up!

Tracklist

• 12" Vinyl 1
• 1
  Hard Times

  feat. Black Thought
  5:16
  3.2 ★
• 2
  Compared to What
  6:27
  2.5 ★
• 3
  Wake Up Everybody

  feat. Common & Melanie Fiona
  4:25
  2.5 ★
• 4
  Our Generation (The Hope of the World)

  feat. C.L. Smooth
  3:16
  2.5 ★
• 5
  Little Ghetto Boy (prelude)

  feat. Malik Yusef
  1:59
  1.5 ★
• 6
  Little Ghetto Boy

  feat. Black Thought
  5:26
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Hang On in There
  7:15
  2.0 ★
• 8
  Humanity (Love the Way It Should Be)
  3:49
  2.5 ★
• 12" Vinyl 2
• 1
  Wholy Holy
  5:48
  1.0 ★
• 2
  I Can’t Write Left Handed
  11:45
  1.0 ★
• 3
  I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
  2:43
  2.0 ★
• 4
  Shine
  4:44
  2.5 ★

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Release credits

• ?uestlove
  drums (drum set) [1-3], producer [1-3]
• Alex Venguer
  lead vocals [1, 3]
• Ashley Simpson
  background vocals [3]
• Bojan Dugić
  additional [3], recording [2]
• Charles Parker
  violin [1, 3]
• Chris Farr
  flute [1], saxophone [1-2]
• Chris Soper
  lead vocals [1]
• Common
  lead vocals [3]
• Davis Barnett
  viola [1, 3]
• Denise Powell
  background vocals [3]
• Derik Lee
  additional [1, 3], assistant [1, 3]
• Dustin Capulong
  assistant [3], lead vocals [3]
• Emma Kummrow
  violin [1, 3]
• Gregory Teperman
  violin [1, 3]
• Igor Szwec
  violin [1, 3]
• James Poyser
  producer [1-3]
• Jeff Bradshaw
  trombone [2]
• Jennifer Lorenzo
  cello [1, 3]
• Jessyca Wilson
  background vocals [1, 3]
• Joe Peluso
  lead vocals [3]
• John Legend
  lead vocals [3], producer [1-3]
• Jon Smeltz
  additional [1], recording [3]
• Lacey Jones
  background vocals [3]
• Larry Gold
  conductor [1, 3], strings [1, 3]
• Lenesha Randolph
  background vocals [3]
• Linwood Smith, Jr.
  background vocals [3]
• Matia Washington
  background vocals [3]
• Matt Cappy
  trumpet [1-2]
• Melanie Fiona
  lead vocals [3]
• Michael Ilbert
  lead vocals [3]
• Michelle Bishop
  violin [1, 3]
• Natalie Curtis
  background vocals [3]
• Nick Banns
  additional [3], lead vocals [1]
• Olga Konopelsky
  violin [1, 3]
• Owen Biddle
  bass guitar [1-3]
• Randy Bowland
  additional [1-3], guitar [1-3]
• Ruth Frazier
  viola [1, 3]
• Ryan Kelly
  additional [1], assistant [1]
• Steve Mandel
  additional [1]
• Tamika Smith
  background vocals [3]
• Timiney Figueroa-Caton
  background vocals [3]
• “Captain” Kirk Douglas
  electric guitar [1]
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Issues

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  W
  Wake Up!

  Digital Media
  17 September 2010
• 

  W
  Wake Up!

  Digital Media
  21 September 2010
• 

  W
  Wake Up!

  CD
  21 September 2010
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  W
  Wake Up!

  CD
  21 September 2010
• 

  W
  Wake Up!

  Digital Media
  21 September 2010
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  W
  Wake Up!

  2x 12" Vinyl
  21 September 2010
• W
  Wake Up!

  CD
  22 September 2010
• W
  Wake Up!

  CD
  18 October 2010
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  W
  Wake Up!

  CD
  2010
• W
  Wake Up!

  CD, DVD (Deluxe Edition)
  2010
• W
  Wake Up! Radio

  Digital Media
  2011