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On July 16, Logic announced that their seventh album, No pressureIt would be the last. There were no long-winded farewell speeches, or moments of lightness to downplay his decision to cast the peace sign, just a simple acknowledgment of his rap journey and his new devotion to parenthood.
“It’s been a great decade, now is being a great father,” he wrote on Instagram when he released the cover of his album. Today (July 24), Logic’s swan song is here, and judging from the 15-track effort, retirement was something he had already planned long before 2020 came on the scene.
“I just wanted to retire because I got over it, man,” he says. Billboard hours before the release of his latest album. “Not even negatively, I got over it.” Studded with soul-stirring samples produced by hip-hop savant No ID, Logic and more, No pressure He finds that the DMV rhyme embraces fatherhood and exhaustion with the rap game. In “DadBod,” he talks about his superior knowledge of changing diapers versus his understanding of today’s rappers, saying, “I can tell you more about diapers than modern rappers and ciphers.”
“I love music and I will continue to make music on my own. I can’t not only make music. It is a diary for me. This is how I express myself. It’s how I heal, but with Logic, I’m walking away, “she explains. “And the point is also that I’m not trying to do this great show like ‘Oh my gosh’ because it’s not that deep. Either you believe me or you’re not a man. I do not give a hoot. I’m here doing my thing.
Logic also tells fans that while they won’t be able to interact more through their tours and concerts, they will still have access to it through Twitch. On Monday (July 20) he exclusively announced his seven-figure deal with the game streaming service and revealed his plans to stay in constant communication with fans there. “It’s going to connect me and my fans now more than ever because I’m not working in the studio thoroughly,” he says of his deal with Twitch. “Now I can be on Twitch, stream with my fans, have conversations with my fans, play video games with my fans, [and] make beats for my fans. ”
Logic even hopes to give away his beats for free to aspiring MCs: “There are some people on Twitch who like to give gifts. I want to make beats for the new rappers on the spot and give it to them for free and, if they take it, they won’t be charged or even published. “
Along with the logic of withdrawing from the hip-hop game, the lyrical tech no longer has to worry about the fierce clutches of social media. In his song “Dark Place,” Logic frankly talks about his past struggles with criticism and how he even used to Google his name to see what was said about him on blogs. According to him, he is now in a more comfortable place and is no longer concerned with what journalists have to say about his position in the rap game.
“Those are the people who made me feel bad about myself,” he says. “Those are the people that made me want to kill myself sometimes. Those are the people who depressed me and told me I’m not good enough, I’ll never be good enough, you don’t belong because I’m a cheesy white cheesy [rapper] because I like science fiction and all these kinds of things, but that’s who I am. “
And he adds: “I’d rather be perceived as corny or whatever the case with f – k than sell and be ‘authentic’ to the life I grew up in: selling drugs, cooking crack, shooting guns, being close to motherf –kers – that’s not what I stood for. So those same fk guys saying something like that won’t even know what they’re talking about when there are people like the RZA singing my praise, Killer Mike, [and] I have Wu-Tang on a track. I sit down and say, “Those are the people if someone tries to say what they say, it doesn’t make any sense.”
“Being able to have a queen like Erykah Badu on speed dial and show me that love is like I can’t believe it. I can’t understand that. She is just the epitome of music, soul, and hip-hop. When people like that, like real spitters and real MCs showing their love, it doesn’t matter what the writer says or what the editor says because that writer wants them to be able to rap king. But I understand that and I know it. That’s why I just shut up the shit, “he says.
You can watch Logic’s interview with Billboard about his final album No pressure Above, as she also talks about her favorite verse on the project, teaching her son about his black roots and where he is with God today.
