Logic and his father continue to rebuild their once strained relationship, and the rap superstar has now vowed to look out for the 69-year-old by signing him to his record label.
During a recent stop on the Maryland rapper’s College Park tour, which he posted to Instagram on Saturday (June 10), he stopped his show to give fans a peek into the complicated relationship with his father (real name Robert Bryson Hall).
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“Why do you always ask me for money,” Logic recalled asking his father. “And you know what he says? ‘I don’t know.’ I think it’s just the fact that I’m financially insecure because I want to leave a legacy for your little brother. So I said, ‘You know what dad, I’m gonna do an album with you. I’m going to teach you about Black ownership and what it means to run a business.”
Logic then proceeded to bring his dad on stage and let him know that he will surround him with all of his resources to be financially secure before having him sign a record deal to Bobby Boy Records.
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“Dad I want to make sure that you’re safe,” he continued. “And we make this album, that you are protected, and you have the greatest lawyers in the fucking business, and I want to sign my father at 69-yeaars-old to Bobby Boy Records right now. And give him what he always wanted.”
Upon signing the contract, both men embraced, prompting his father to say “I love this boy.” He then when on to recite a slightly amended version of the intro from “Homicide,” Logic’s 2019 collaboration with Eminem. “I knew he was going to be a star… when he came out of my balls, n-gga!” After which Logic performed the track.
Logic and his father weren’t always in such a good space. Last month, while on comedian Andrew Santino’s Whiskey Ginger podcast, the rapper recalled an instance where his dad asked him for a whopping $1million upon seeing him for the first time in a while.
His father’s request caused a rift that led them not to speak for some time again – and when they tried reuniting another time later, it was the same old song.
“Last time when I was talking to my dad, he asked me for a million dollars,” Logic began. “Fuck no I didn’t give it to him. He said: ‘I want a million dollars.’ I said: ‘For what?’ He said: ‘For my band so that we can buy a house and make music in it.’ I’m like, ‘What?’ So I ask him once we get back together: ‘Please don’t ask me for money. Can we just fucking throw catch or some shit?’ And he’s like, ‘Alright! Alright.’”
He continued: “This muthafucka flies in, he’s not there for six hours and he’s like, ‘I need you to buy me a truck.’ Immediately! And then that goes into, ‘I need you to pay all my bills.’ And then I’m like, ‘Dad, no.’”
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Logic has been very vocal about his issues with his father since he came into the rap game, and once detailed how his father stole his identity when was just 10 years old.
“Dad never really lived with me and when he did live with us he would steal things,” Logic told VIBE in 2014. “I remember one time he stole my identity. My name is Sir Robert Bryson Hall II and his name is Robert Bryson Hall and he used my social security card and got like 10 credit cards under my name and was buying and doing all these things and potentially could have ruined my credit before it even began, but I was 10 years old and the government realized it.”
