How John Legend Learned to Forgive His Mother

Your Mama’s Kitchen

Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Multiple Grammy and Platinum Record winning artist John Legend takes us back to his roots in Springfield, Ohio, where he was an academic overachiever and a musical prodigy. John opens up about his early rocky relationship with his mother and how, over time, they came together to nurture one beautiful family. Plus, we learn how to make his mama's special mac & cheese.

Your Mama’s Kitchen is a production of Higher Ground.

Produced by Sonia Htoon.

Associate Producers are Camila Thur de Koos and Jenna Levin.

Sound design and engineering from Andrew Eapen, Ryan Kozlowski and Roy Baum.

Executive producers for Higher Ground are Mukta Mohan, Dan Fierman and Michele Norris.

The show’s closing song is 504 by The Soul Rebels.

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0:00.0	Get Ramadan ready at ASDA with 5 litres of KTC sunflower oil down from £6.50 to £5.92.
0:07.0	10 kilos of Leila rice, dropped from £13 to just £12 £134 and 10 kilos of elephant at a chapati flour.
0:15.0	Down from £7.50 to £7 £12.
0:18.0	With more rollbacks across the store.
0:20.0	Get the ingredients you need for an Iftar they'll love.
0:23.2	That's as the price.
0:24.5	Select the stores online, subject to availability,
0:26.4	may exclude Asda Express and small stores.
0:28.3	See asda.com slash small stores.
0:31.0	Are we there yet, Dad?
0:33.2	Uh, nearly.
0:36.5	Dad, are we there yet?
0:38.8	Soon.
0:41.5	Are we there yet?
0:43.6	Literally around the corner.
0:46.7	Dad!
0:48.0	I know, I know.
0:49.4	Are we there yet?
0:50.9	No.
0:52.0	Are we lost, Dad?
0:54.0	Yeah, yeah, I think so.
0:56.4	Should have gone to Spec Savers.
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