John Legend On The Music Industry, His Career, Politics And Balancing It All

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🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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John Legend seems to be one of the busiest people in the entertainment business. Apart from making music, in the past few years he has been all over TV, starring in NBC's live 'Jesus Christ Superstar' broadcast and producing multiple shows, including a new hip-hop competition show for Netflix. On top of it all, Legend remains engaged in political conversations and philanthropic causes. He sat down with Sam Sanders to talk about balancing it all and where his career has taken him. This episode includes language some listeners may find offensive.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, from NPR I'm Sam Sanders, it's been a minute.
0:08.8	So we talk to a lot of actors and singers and performers on this show.
0:14.3	Many of them have won awards, but very few of them have achieved the award status our
0:19.5	next guest has.
0:21.4	He is an Egot, one of maybe 20 or so in the world ever.
0:26.3	An Egot is someone who is one in Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony.
0:32.1	Today's guest is one of those awards you could call his career legendary.
0:36.8	I am talking about John Legend.
0:39.5	Please admire my pun.
0:41.1	Okay, besides winning all the awards, John Legend is also a very busy, very hard working
0:46.1	man.
0:47.1	John is a co-host on the reality singing competition show The Voice.
0:51.1	He has an upcoming hip-hop competition show on Netflix called Rhythm and Flow.
0:55.6	He put out a Christmas R&B album last year and has a new album on the way soon.
1:00.3	He even has a wine line.
1:02.4	In this chat, we talk about how John Legend gets it all done.
1:05.6	We also discuss his extremely popular celebrity marriage to the one and only Chrissy
1:10.9	Tigan.
1:11.9	And of course, we cannot discuss their relationship without discussing how the two of them recently
1:17.4	gotten to a Twitter fight with the president.
1:21.0	Listeners as a heads up in that part of the conversation, there's some unbleaped, offensive
1:25.0	language may not be the best thing for kids to hear.
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