Logic
Entry updated 16 September 2024. Tagged: Music, People.
Recording name of US rapper and streamer Robert Bryson Hall II (1990- ), whose The Incredible True Story (2015) is an sf concept album, unusual in mainstream rather than underground hip-hop. The framing story has a Spaceship heading to the planet Paradise, escaping Earth after failed attempts to create a super-nation to combat Climate Change led to Wars involving the US, Japan, China and Russia. After a Russian nuclear attack, the remaining industrial nations create a mega-City in the US called Babel, but the majority of the population die from a virus caused by genetically modified meat. The surviving five million inhabitants head for a new planet to start again. The album effectively showcases Logic's verbal dexterity, with plenty of room for the braggadocio the genre requires (it would appear Logic's music is crucial for the mental well-being of the survivors), though the music does not show much ambition in moving away from the trappings of commercial rap. It sold a lot of copies. [CWa]
Robert Bryson Hall II
born Rockville, Maryland: 22 January 1990
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