-John Legend, I'm so happy that you are back.
I want to say thank you again
because you were one of our first guests
to come on our at-home shows not knowing
we'd be going this long from home,
but I appreciate that, man.
It's really cool of you to do this, take the time.
Thank you. -Well, it was fun doing it
at the beginning. Who knew what, you know --
what the quarantine had in store for us?
But it was, you know, at the very beginning,
it was -- Everybody was just trying to figure out
how to adjust, and you were doing the shows from home.
I was doing all my interviews from home.
I'm home right now.
I was doing a lot of performances from home.
So, yeah. -Has anything changed
production-wise for you? Do you have a new camera?
Do you have the same laptop, or what is this?
-I have the same laptop,
but we've been trying to step things up.
I shot a Father's Day special where we had full production.
We just had everybody -- -I thought that was great.
-Thank you. We had everybody wear masks
and we did a lot of it outside.
So we tried to be as safe as possible.
But, you know, everybody's kind of easing back into
using full production, but just doing it
with more precautions now. -Yeah, tough.
I saw your dad on there, too. That's pretty cool.
-Yes. -That's pretty cool.
-Yeah, he was great. It was nice.
It was heartwarming to talk with him and just let him know
how much I appreciate him and the example he set for me
and my brothers and my sister and how, you know,
as a dad I try to emulate him as much as I can.
-Yeah. I was going to say, me, too.
But I don't mean your dad, but -- probably,
but my dad as well is what I was saying.
-Yeah. Absolutely. -I'm not imitating your dad.
-It's good when you have a good example, you know,
in your life on how to treat your kids.
-Exactly. How are your -- how's the family?
Did they enjoy Father's Day with you?
Did you get to enjoy it at all? -Yes, Chrissy surprised me.
She set up a dinner date on our deck
and somehow I was able to not see it the whole time
while they were setting it up, and it was a true surprise.
I thought we were just going to go in the backyard
and take some photos and go out to somewhere else.
-Yeah. -But she set it all up
in our backyard, and it was a really lovely dinner date.
And they made me feel like a king on Father's Day.
I appreciated it. -You have to give her my best.
-Yes. -She's one of my favorites, man.
-Of course. -She is so -- she's so real.
-Yes. -And that's why everyone
loves her. I was like,
"Dude, that's what you -- That's what you get, man."
-She is real. She's funny. She's creative.
-Oh, yeah. -She's a great person to be
stuck in the house with. -Exactly. And how's the babies?
What are they into these days? Are they into "Frozen"?
-They are still into "Frozen," "Frozen 2" especially.
Miles even is singing every single song on "Frozen 2."
He's 2 years old, but he's pretty good
at all the lyrics now. And he is very into "Frozen 2."
You think it's more of a girls thing,
but Miles is into it, too.
-Yeah, my girls are into like one song from "Frozen 2."
I forget which one, or one or two.
-"Into the Unknown" or "Show Yourself" or...
-"Show yourself." -I know all of them.
I have seen all of it. Luna is a connoisseur.
She's actually more into Scooby-Doo
than anything else, though. -Dude! What's going on?!
I'm not kidding. What is happening?
'Cause my kids are into Scooby-Doo
like crazy right now.
-And the Scooby-Doo franchise is prolific.
They -- Warner Bros. has cranked out so much Scooby-Doo
like straight-to-DVD content, that they are all these
randomly themed Scooby-Doo movies.
They have a like "WrestleMania" one.
-I just watched the vampire one. They want to watch it.
It's called "Vampire, the Musical."
They watched it over -- -Yes.
"Scooby Goes to Mexico," "Scooby goes to Hawaii,"
"Scooby goes to Japan."
It's like Scooby has gone everywhere
and solved every mystery in the world.
-Hey, I want to talk to you about you do so much,
you give back, you're very very socially active.
-Yeah. -You have a thing called
Free America organization. -Well, back when I --
When Common and I wrote that song "Glory" for "Selma,"
and I stood up on the stage when we got an Oscar for it.
I said, you know, America's the most incarcerated country
in the world and this issue is particularly affecting
the black and brown communities of this country
and we need to change that.
And so I organized my team around figuring out
how we could add to the conversation,
bring light to the activists and organizers
who have been working on it for a long time,
and we have set about doing that.
We founded Free America back then,
and we went around and spoke to lots of people,
people in jails and prisons, corrections officers,
district attorneys, legislators,
people who were formerly incarcerated,
and just tried to understand the issue better.
And then we spent a lot of time getting to know
a lot of the activists and organizers
from state to state who were trying to make change,
and then we've been trying to amplify their work
and help change the system.
-You know, obviously, it's been --
it's rocking the whole globe right now, but --
-Yeah. -I think everyone's realizing
that we do need change. And you know,
the policing needs change. -Yeah. Policing.
The fact that we use police and jails and prisons
to solve far too many social issues
that could be solved in other ways.
That's something a lot of people are looking at now,
and I think it's important that we do that.
And I think, you know, out of the tragedy
of losing George Floyd and other people,
there's really been a movement that's been enhanced
and been, you know, buoyed by outrage
and by concern for our communities.
And hopefully we can, you know, in this moment,
seize that momentum and really make serious change
and hold our leaders accountable for serious change.
-I want to talk about your new album.
This is -- -Yeah.
-I love that you -- honestly, we didn't know when it was going
to come out last time I talked to you.
-Yeah. -I'm not sure --
we were almost close to mixing and finishing?
-Yeah. -I want to get into all that
because -- it's called "Bigger Love."
It's available now on Spotify.
Get it off of Apple, wherever you listen to your music.
Download it -- but for real. Don't bootleg download it.
For real download it. Stream it.
-Who needs to bootleg now?
We got every way you need to listen to music is out there,
and most of it's free. So, no need to bootleg.
-No, no, there is no need. No, no, no, please don't.
"Bigger Love," I want to talk about what when we come back.
More with John Legend, everybody.