Logic the rapper, who is best known for his ‘1-800-273-8255’ suicide prevention song, released his sizzling seventh mixtape, ‘Bobby Tarantino II’ on 9 March. His latest release comes 11 months after his delightfully deep ‘Everybody’ album ranked number one in the Billboard 200 album chart, rising above Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN album at the time. The sequel mixtape to ‘Bobby Tarantino’, released in 2016, has also reached number one in the Billboard 200 album chart.
It has fantastic features from many famous faces including Big Sean, Wiz Khalifa and 2 Chainz as well as production from Illmind, Marshmello and 6ix. It also features Rick and Morty who open the mixtape with the hilarious interlude ‘Grandpa’s Space Ship’. With the two cartoon characters discussing the difference between Album and Mixtape Logic, with Rick describing Mixtape Logic as turn up music for when you aren’t “in the mood for a message”. This is something ‘Bobby Tarantino II’ certainly does, as his usual strong moral message is replaced with a response to all his haters and doubters.
In the long awaited diss track ‘Yuck’, he responds to one of his best known haters Joyner Lucas, who has been firing shots at Logic in and out of the booth. On Lucas’s remix of ‘Mask Off’ called ‘Mask On’ he raps to “go listen to Sriracha” and that is why he should never be compared to Logic. ‘Sriracha’ is a Tech N9ne song which featured both Joyner Lucas and Logic. With Joyner speaking in an interview with Everyday Struggle claiming Logic wasn’t happy about having to sharing the track with him and delivered a late verse which was “whack”.
After months of silence, Logic finally responded to Joyner’s comments in ‘Yuck’. While not directly addressing him, it is obvious that Logic is talking about Joyner Lucas with the bar “comparing yourself to me”, referring to Joyner Lucas’s “don’t compare me to Logic” bar on Mask On. Logic also has a subtle dig at Joyner at the end of the song by including a phone call from Elton John asking to work with him. This is in direct reference to Joyner Lucas’s verse in Sriracha where he raps: “Sing for the moment, I hit the high note. Someone please let Elton John know.”
As well as throwing shade at Joyner, he also aims at the pop industry in the track ‘44 More’. More specifically Katy Perry and Harry Styles when he raps that his last album sold more than both of them – a stat which is true, with Logic having sold 196,000 albums in his first week, in comparison to Styles’ 193,000 and Perry’s 162,000.
Although a huge difference from his recent work, Logic’s latest mixtape is a salute to his old school fans with songs such as ‘Warm It Up’ featuring his alter ego Young Sinatra, the cocky fast flowing Logic of old. Whilst appeasing them he also has some pop songs such as ‘Everyday’ and ‘Overnight’ for his newer fans to enjoy.
