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John Legend

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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We're Just Ordinary People

Will I Am was managed by David Sonnenberg and Seth Friedman, who also managed the Black IPs. He wrote a couple songs that ended up on his album She Don't Have to Know. The song We're Just Ordinary People was originally meant to be a Black IPs hook. But he took it back when he thought about how John Legend would have done it.

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