Logic believes that his latest project Ultra 85 came straight from his heart, but all that effort didn’t pay off — at least financially.
The rapper ran into the folks from TMZ while headed to Detroit, and said that his new goal was to make upbeat “turn-up shit” like Playboi Carti.
“What I’ve noticed is I’ve been on a run of doing super-Hip Hop music — that shit doesn’t pay the bills at all,” he told the site.
“It’s because I made all my money before, doing pop and turn-up shit, and then I’ve been blessed enough to be a musician, to be able to make music from my heart. But next year I’mma fuck ’em up. I’m about to drop all this Playboi Carti trap, turn-up shit, and go get a bag and have fun.
“I did my best, and I feel like it’s important to speak from the heart. But it’s okay to get money, too.”
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Logic’s Ultra 85 was in the works for approximately eight years and features guest contributions from T Man The Wizard, DJ Drama, ADÉ, Lucy Rose, Zelooperz and Robert Ivory.
Ultra 85 was the original working title of the 34-year-old MC’s short-lived retirement album in 2020. When he signed off under No Pressure instead, many assumed that he simply changed the name of the package while publishing the same tracklist.
However, the outro of “Heard Em Say” from said LP features a robotic voice saying: “This concludes the No Pressure program/ No Pressure– Ultra 85, welcome to the Ultra 85 program.”
Meanwhile, Logic’s new model Playboi Carti appears on Tyler, The Creator‘s new album Chromakopia, but his contribution is so far limited to the vinyl edition.
Chromakopia arrived on streaming services on October 28, with most fans unaware that the vinyl version of the album contains a bonus song and a guest feature from Carti.
The Atlanta rapper lends a guest verse to the ScHoolboy Q-assisted “Thought I Was Dead,” adopting a deeper voice that he’s used in other recent songs over the jittery production and tribal drums.
A recording of the track has since been leaked online.
It’s a damn shame. He’s a talented musician and he’s not wrong. These kids don’t want to listen to lyrics.
Facts. He’s speaking the truth. People are stupid and don’t have the attention span for good lyrical content. You could be the best lyricist in the world but people will say Kanye/Drake is better.
His music sucks. He should stick to appearing at comic book conventions like his is doing this weekend in Detroit.
You’re a clown. You’ve never in your life listed to a an album from him. Name me someone who you do like that dropped something in the past 5 years.
Logic is dope whatever he decides to make.
You’re stalking the man just to keep hating on his talents?
You white boys crack me up
so he’s upset his album didnt sell and wants to swagger jack for attention. got it. another logic album ill pass on and not regret.
Ultra85 was lyrically boring as hell to listen to. Dude thought he was dropping gems but he might as well be rapping about buying groceries.
In general, humans do not want to be enlightened, they want to be entertained.