Complex interviews Logic.
Logic retired from music with his new album “No Pressure” and to look behind his career, he sat down with complex news for a new interview where he talks why he retired, his new album, moving to Montana, Joe Budden’s criticism, feeling satisfied with his career, having a son and more.
Logic, the rapper, musician, and novelist who turned his open-hearted brand of hip-hop into socially important hit fodder with the suicide-prevention” announced his retirement last week at the same time as the album’s release date. In terms of his rapping career, which he apparently just ended, the congenially loquacious, baritone-voiced rapper is focused and forceful at his best — like on 2017’s “Everybody” album — espousing reasoned theories about mental health, social schemas, and intimate relationships over carefully arranged hip-hop. When he’s at his worst, like on 2019’s “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” his thought process is haphazard and pompous, with music that can be plain messy.
At around 3:00, Logic also talked about how his career went better than he could’ve imagined, and meeting Eminem is a dream come true. “I think my career went better than I could have ever dreamed or hoped I think when I first started, not I thin I know I remember being in the attic of my godmother’s house Mary Jo, thinking god I would go on tour for free, I would pay somebody to bring me on tour, for an opening slap for minutes a night. And you know that turns into a man if I could just put out a mixtape and then you put out a mixtape if I could just get fans and you get fans. Oh man If I could go on a tour you go on tour, Man If I could sign a major record deal you signed a deal If I could put an album out, I put an album out, If it could go gold it goes gold, If it could go platinum shit goes six times platinum and then you realize it’s never-ending like you’re chasing this carrot.”
“It’s been really incredible so I’m sitting here looking at a picture of me and Eminem sitting down together like that is a dream come true man I’ve always just been a kid in regards to music and hip-hop. I’m in awe that universe allowed it to happen to some kid who grew up on section 8 who just loves rap, you know hip-hop raised me.”
Then complex asks, “Just quickly because you mentioned it you glanced over at a picture of you and Eminem and if you were to think back you know, eight, ten years ago or even further back when you were just growing up, and I would’ve to tell you that one day you would be here and you would have a picture with Eminem and be able to casually look at a photo of you and Eminem and casually say that Erykah Badu tweeted about you and you don’t even know that she’s talking about you, would you believe me, do things feel regular?”
Logic says, “Oh no, they don’t feel regular, It’s still I’m pretty like always in shock, I wouldn’t believe you if you told me that two years ago about Em.”
But Logic is now rejoicing. He’s amassed a modest but devoted fan base in recent years. He has millions of views on the YouTube website for Visionary Music Group, the independent company that signed him. “All I Do,” from his Young Sinatra mixtape, is his most successful video. It has received almost seven million views. No I.D. helped sign him to Def Jam; on “Welcome To Forever,” Logic raps about Nas quoting his lines to him when they met; and Lupe Fiasco recently declared Logic is lyrically better than Kendrick Lamar. He even has a nickname for his female fans: BobbySoxers, after Frank Sinatra.
Watch Logic’s full in-depth interview below.
