50 Fun Facts About Logic (Rapper)

Which British star's voicemail, praising Logic's Grammys performance, closes 'Yuck' on Bobby Tarantino II?

Elton John introduces himself, congratulates Logic on the performance and promises to ring back with a favour to ask. Logic kept the message as the song's outro.

Logic's Grammy-nominated hit '1-800-273-8255' is titled after the phone number of which kind of American helpline?

A suicide prevention lifeline lent the song its name, and calls to it rose 27% in the three weeks after the single came out. The service has since adopted the shorter number 988.

Which animated duo open Logic's Bobby Tarantino II by bickering over whether to play his albums or his mixtapes?

Rick and Morty star in the intro skit 'Grandpa's Space Ship', both voiced by Justin Roiland. Rick demands the mixtape side because he wants something to turn up on the ride.

Which rapper trades rapid-fire verses with Logic on 'Homicide', a 2019 top-five hit mocking mumble rap?

Eminem had never recorded with Logic before the track, which debuted at number five on the Billboard Hot 100. Both take aim at rappers who lean on Auto-Tune and ghostwriters.

Which celebrity astrophysicist voices God in the spoken interludes of Logic's chart-topping album Everybody?

Neil deGrasse Tyson plays God opposite a man named Atom, who dies in a car crash and learns he must live every human life before he can move on.

Logic provided the voice and motion capture for a villain in the final chapter of which 2020 video game?

The Last of Us Part II gave Logic a minor acting role a month before he announced his retirement from music. His first on-screen part came later, as Dax in the Apple TV series Mr. Corman.

On '44 More', Logic boasts of outselling which two pop stars in his first week?

Harry Styles and Katy Perry each saw a 2017 album outsold by Logic's Everybody in its first US week. His next line puns on the title of Styles's debut solo single.

Which rock band joined Logic, Lil Wayne and Ty Dolla Sign on the 2016 film soundtrack hit 'Sucker for Pain'?

Imagine Dragons share the song with a crowd of rappers and fellow band X Ambassadors. Written for a DC supervillain movie, it climbed to number 15 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Logic's farewell album No Pressure debuted at number two, kept from the top by which Taylor Swift album?

Folklore, Swift's eighth studio album, held the top spot while No Pressure earned 221,000 album-equivalent units. Logic was back from retirement less than a year later.

Which 2019 book made Logic the first rapper with a number-one New York Times best-selling novel?

Supermarket arrived with a soundtrack album of the same name that swapped rap for alternative rock. Critics panned the record, which stalled at number 56 on the Billboard 200.

Which two singers join Logic on '1-800-273-8255', performing it with him at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards?

Alessia Cara and Khalid joined him on stage that night, after which the song jumped to number nine, the first top-ten single for both Logic and Khalid.

Which EDM producer teamed with Logic on 'Everyday', whose video casts the rapper as an overworked office drone?

Marshmello first revealed the collaboration in August 2017, tweeting that he had waited months to get in the studio with Logic. The ten-minute video pays homage to the workplace comedy Office Space.

Which Quentin Tarantino film, with a score produced by RZA, first drew a teenage Logic toward hip-hop?

Kill Bill: Volume 1 sent Logic to its composer's own records and then to hip-hop at large. Later that year he bought a Roots album and began writing lyrics over instrumental CDs from his mentor.

Under which longer stage name, later shortened to Logic, did the rapper release his first unofficial mixtape?

Psychological appealed to him because it 'was about the mind', the thing he wanted his music to challenge. He had trimmed it to Logic by the time of his first official mixtape, Young, Broke & Infamous.

In 2020, Logic became the first musician to sign an exclusive streaming deal with which live-video platform?

Twitch carried the listening party for his album No Pressure as his very first stream. He went on to use the channel to make beats in real time, chat with fans and play video games.

Which actor's name titles the lead single of Logic's 2019 album Confessions of a Dangerous Mind?

Keanu Reeves is name-checked in the chorus of the single, which came out in January 2019. It peaked at number 38 on the Billboard Hot 100.

On 'Black Spiderman', Logic raps that the web-slinger should be Black and casts his vote for which actor?

Donald Glover was the subject of a 2010 fan campaign, backed by Stan Lee, to cast him as Spider-Man. He later played Aaron Davis in Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Logic ended his retirement in June 2021 with a statement mimicking which basketball legend's comeback announcement?

Michael Jordan's return to basketball supplied the template for the announcement on June 16. Two days later Logic released the song 'Intro', and a new mixtape followed in July.

Which rapper guests on Logic's cannabis anthem 'Indica Badu' and later co-headlined a 2022 summer tour with him?

Wiz Khalifa takes the second verse of the track, which samples Erykah Badu's 'Didn't Cha Know?'. He and Logic had already shared a song on a 2016 film soundtrack.

Across the three choruses of Logic's '1-800-273-8255', how does the caller's outlook change?

From despair to wanting to live: the hook is rewritten twice, so the first chorus voices the caller's wish to die and the last the decision to stay alive.

In Logic's 'Fade Away', the rapper imagines dying on a Monday, hit on the drive to work by which make of car?

Hyundai completes a three-way rhyme in the first verse with the weekday he imagines dying on. The song's point is that everybody dies, so he wants his name to outlast him.

A news report heard in Logic's 'Gang Related' describes a manhunt in which Maryland city, his childhood home?

Gaithersburg is where a young Logic watched his brothers sell crack to addicts on the block, his own father among them. Those years became the raw material for his debut album.

Which storied label, which Logic called 'the most iconic hip hop label of all time', announced his signing in 2013?

Def Jam Recordings released his next seven studio albums, from Under Pressure in 2014 to his last for the label in 2022. He then began putting out music himself.

The title track of Logic's album YSIV pays tribute to which rapper, who had died earlier that same month?

Mac Miller died of an accidental drug overdose in September 2018, the month the album came out. YSIV closed the Young Sinatra series that Logic had begun as free mixtapes.

Every surviving member of which veteran rap collective appears together on one track of Logic's album YSIV?

Wu-Tang Clan members from Method Man and Raekwon to Ghostface Killah all rap on the song, a full-circle moment for a fan who fell for hip-hop by listening to the group.

Which Hollywood leading man delivers a guest rap verse on Logic's album Confessions of a Dangerous Mind?

Will Smith appears on 'Don't Be Afraid to Be Different', a cameo one reviewer called 'a Fresh Prince feature'. The album debuted at number one despite selling less than Logic's earlier releases.

On Logic's sci-fi album The Incredible True Story, the crew of the Aquarius III are travelling to which planet?

Paradise is the hoped-for new home after Earth becomes uninhabitable, and the album ends with the crew landing there. On the way, the pilot and his partner listen to the record itself.

Which friend of Logic raps on 'Young Jesus' and owned the basement painted on the Under Pressure cover?

Big Lenbo let Logic live and record in that basement early in his career, and he hand-wrote the title and track list that appear on the artwork.

Which magazine named Logic to its annual Freshmen list in 2013, alongside Travis Scott and Chief Keef?

XXL put Logic in a class that also included Schoolboy Q, Joey Badass and Ab-Soul. Within months he had announced a major-label deal and a second national headlining tour.

Which veteran producer, a mentor Logic compared to Yoda, executive-produced his debut album Under Pressure?

No I.D. oversaw the record with a loose touch that Logic likened to Quincy Jones, and the whole album was recorded in roughly two weeks. He was back among the producers of No Pressure in 2020.

Logic conceived 'Gang Related', partly rapped from his drug-dealing brother's viewpoint, after watching which film?

Boyz n the Hood inspired what Logic called 'a gangster record' that refuses to glorify violence. Stuck for over a week after the first verse, he finished it with stories his brother supplied.

Which working title did Logic drop for his album Everybody after a backlash, keeping it only for the closing track?

AfricAryaN was meant to reflect 'being black and white, and seeing life from two sides', but the word Aryan drew objections. The song of that name hides an uncredited verse by J. Cole.

Logic's No Pressure samples classic radio shows and closes with a 1946 commentary on racism by which filmmaker?

Orson Welles is heard on the final track, 'Obediently Yours', an excerpt of his broadcast about the Isaac Woodard case. His daughter Beatrice said she was thrilled the message had reached a younger audience.

Voice actor David Hayter opens Logic's album No Pressure by reprising his role as which video game hero?

Solid Snake, the Metal Gear hero Hayter has voiced since 1998, turns up on the opening track amid samples of the radio play The Hitch-Hiker.

Which producer, born Arjun Ivatury, became Logic's go-to beatmaker in 2009 and executive-produced YSIV?

6ix quit university in his senior year, 30 credits short of a degree, to move to Los Angeles with Logic. His first Grammy nomination came for producing '1-800-273-8255'.

Which rapper is the only credited guest on Logic's 2016 mixtape Bobby Tarantino, appearing on the single 'Wrist'?

Pusha T lent a verse to a single that came out the same day as 'Sucker for Pain', one week before the mixtape itself appeared without warning.

Which 2016 single, teased on social media for months, became Logic's first song to chart on the Billboard Hot 100?

Flexicution, a word Logic made up from 'flex' and 'execution', squeezed onto the chart at number 100. It went on to lead off a mixtape he released with no announcement.

Which actor is named as the rapper's spirit animal in the second verse of Logic's throwback single 'Young Jesus'?

Joe Pesci gets the shout-out in a verse that also boasts of devouring weak MCs like a cannibal. The track opens with a call to take listeners back to the 1990s.

Which 2022 album, Logic's final release on his longtime major label, packs in 30 tracks made in under a fortnight?

Vinyl Days was recorded in about 12 days, the reason Logic gave NPR for its title, and its cover shows his young son in a room crammed with pop-culture relics.

Which 2023 album, Logic's first independent release in a decade, was teased by a road sign on his previous cover?

College Park followed a 10-year stint on a major label, and Logic had name-dropped it on several songs before it arrived. Its guests range from Norah Jones to Seth MacFarlane.

Which Logic album was first announced by a hidden message in the booklet of Everybody, seven years before its release?

Ultra 85 arrived in August 2024 as the longest album of his career, at 77 minutes. A science fiction novel of the same name followed a month later.

Which voice actor, Cowboy Bebop's Spike Spiegel in English, plays pilot Thomas on Logic's The Incredible True Story?

Steve Blum voices Quentin Thomas, captain of the Aquarius III, and joined Logic for a New York Comic Con panel about the album. The single 'Young Jesus' slips in a nod to his Cowboy Bebop character.

Which New York painter, later hired by Kid Cudi, created the covers of Logic's Under Pressure and Everybody?

Sam Spratt modelled the crowded Everybody cover on Veronese's The Wedding at Cana and painted a contest-winning fan into the scene.

Which actor appears in the Andy Hines-directed video for Logic's '1-800-273-8255' with Luis Guzmán and Matthew Modine?

Don Cheadle appears in a story about a young man who struggles to feel accepted because of his sexuality. Coy Stewart and Nolan Gould are also in the cast.

On Logic's Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, guest vocalist Smokey Hall is credited under which two-word name?

'My Dad' is how the track 'Bobby' credits Logic's father, who was largely absent in his childhood before the two reconnected as his career took off.

Which Andy Weir short story, about one soul living every human life, inspired the concept of Logic's Everybody?

'The Egg' is retold on the album's interlude 'Waiting Room', where a man who has just died learns he is to be reincarnated as everyone who ever lived.

With which producer did Logic form a duo in 2021, releasing 'Mars Only Pt. 3' and 'Mafia Music' on YouTube?

Madlib and Logic called the pairing MadGic, a blend of their two names. Their first song went up on Logic's channel in April 2021, while he was still officially retired.

Which Colombian singer joined a Spanish-language remix of Logic's '1-800-273-8255' released in October 2017?

Juanes sang on the official Spanish remix, while rapper Lil Durk reworked the hit for a mixtape under the title '1 (773) Vulture'.

Which English actress and singer is the sole guest on Logic's mixtape Bobby Tarantino III, on the track 'Inside'?

Cynthia Erivo sings on the sixth track of the mixtape, whose cover shows a zombie escaping a burning car. The release closed a trilogy that began in 2016.

For a track on The Incredible True Story, Logic tried to reunite which hip-hop duo, by then working as solo artists?

Outkast shaped the song's whole sound, which openly references 'SpottieOttieDopaliscious' from their 1998 album Aquemini. André 3000 and Big Boi decided against getting back together for it.