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This is my slideshow Of Logic’s career path from his beginning’s to now and similar to what Victoria had said about Drake, it’s fascinating and pretty interesting seeing and hearing how some of your favorite artists evolve. Not only evolving as a person but with sound as well. Hearing their flow change, what they sing, or rap about. It’s as if you’re growing up with them each time they release a new mixtape or album. This is most likely a case with every artist in the music industry. And Logic is no exception to that.
To add on to something’s I had not spoken about in the powerpoint, Logic’s Under Pressure album which many see to be his pinnacle time of music was a very influenced work. Logic has credited Quentin Tarantino, OutKast, A Tribe Called Quest, and Red Hot Chili Peppers just to name a few that had helped him carve Under Pressure to be what is has become. The album focuses on his life’s beginning as a child growing up in Maryland. Topics are brought up such as drugs and gangs being involved with his brother as well as father in the song “Gang Related.” Also inspired by the movie Boyz in The Hood. The song “Nikki” relating to Logic’s personal addiction to Nicotine. Logic uses wordplay to make “Nikki” sound as if he were talking about a former lover rather than a drug. This album is considered to be what brought Logic from underground to the mainstream spotlight.
With The Incredible True Story Logic’s sound changes to a less serious but more fun playful sound as the theme for this album is a more space sci-fi theme yet exploring a mix of light and dark topics in a aesthetically pleasing manner. The track “Fade Away” is about dying and living life due to never knowing when ones time is coming. Yet Logic’s tone and sound in the track makes it hard to believe it’s a dark song if not listened to correctly. Kanye West’s “Flashing Lights” is borrowed as a intro track yet emphasized to make it sound like a grand entrance or ending rather to a movie. The Incredible True Story is similar to that movie you know can make you cry but you go back to due to the enjoyment.
Logic’s Bobby Tarantino 1 & 2 are both mixtapes that Logic has stated to be fun party “turn up” music where he can express his recklessness side making radio club music rather than the serious set of music he’s known to make on his albums. This has brought up many people claiming that mixtape Logic is a different persona from album Logic. This goes back to a quote from Logic which was mentioned in the slides. Logic talks about this briefly saying “Fans tend to think if you fall in love with a artist because they make a specific kind of sound but gets bigger and grows they change. Yet with me I create all types from the get go so you can never say i’m changing.”
With “Everybody” Logic or “Album Logic” as fans would say takes a sharp turn and begins to speak of more serious topics in his music specifically racial problems and humanity. Logic being born half white and half black talks about his personal issues that he’s had to deal with and tries to unify humanity with his favorite quote “peace, love, and positivity.” Everybody is cited to be Logic’s best work of all his albums and mixtapes. Logic briefly speaks about suicide in his famous track “1-800-273-8255” which is the actual suicide prevention Lifeline number. The song became one of Logic’s best becoming quintuple platinum and jumping higher after his 2017 VMA performance with it.
As shown with the graph, Logic has had a shift with his sales and can be heavily noted especially with his works with the “Bobby Quarantino mix tapes. Though Logic may argue he never changes with his sound, I say he definitely has yet in a good light through my eyes. I prefer “album Logic” to a degree more than “mixtape Logic” due to his aesthetic sound mixed with realism more compared to his “get lit” music which is still good to me but not as much.
