The special secret sauce in John Legend’s album: the Grammys

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Koffee, who made history when she became the youngest artist to win the best reggae album Grammy, eventually collaborating with her on a song for “Bigger Love,” his seventh album out Friday.

And a day before the awards show at the white-hot annual Roc Nation brunch, he sought out rapper Rapsody — who is signed to Jay-Z’s company — and asked her to rap on one of his songs.Legend said listening to Rapsody’s verse on “Remember Us” brings him to tears, especially when the skilled lyricist name-drops Kobe Bryant, who died on the day of the Grammys, and Nipsey Hussle, who Legend won his most recent Grammy with for their song “Higher.”“It’s so epic.