Showing posts with label Logic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Logic. Show all posts

Tuesday, 23 May 2017

Logic's Suicide hotline Song got me breaking down.

This 'Everyone' by Logic is such a powerful album. As Mango shared on his AfricAryan, this album tells stories about everyone, and in each song you find a part of yourself and kinda makes you feel some kind of way.
My song was 1-800-273-8255 featuring Alessia Cara and Khalid. Already know Alessia's music and her voice kind of resonates with me on some truthful level, so just the ingredients for this track are insane.

Ok some pretext as to why this song breaks me down, I had just done reading King Leopold's Ghost and started The Mirror at Midnight so I was emotionally unstable and a bit volatile.
All along in the background, playing softly was Logic's album.
At my weakest point, or rather when I noticed it, this song came on, and it took me and rocked to sleep like a crying babe.

I'm so inspired by a few hip hop artists right now. Their message isn't that tired played out BS, getting high, fvcking b!tches, stackin up racks, and all the rest.
These artists' message is more uplifting and promoting happiness. Granted by happiness, they aren't talking about that clichéd message we all know that money brings happiness. But that's a very rudimentary statement. I might just approach in another post.

I feel like if hip hop took this turn, it could save the world. Real isht.

Thursday, 18 May 2017

Mango tackles Logics AfricAryan.

By Mango


If you've ever felt the feeling of neglect, being sidelined, not accepted or treated unfairly solely because of your skin colour or race then Logic's "AfricAryan" will once again evoke those emotions. As he raps from the perspective of various biracial individuals including a white mother who gives birth to a mixed baby and as such has been disowned by her parents.
This is the last track off his third studio album, "Everybody". This 12 minute long, behemoth of a track features a somber and uplifting Outro by fellow rapper J. Cole & has heart piercing vocals from singer Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
Logic pours his heart out on the 6ix produced joint about how growing up biracial affected him & how he's not ashamed of his granddad "Malik", even though his black  siblings would act as if he's adopted.
He speaks on how he wants to go back to the time his black father impregnated his "cracker" mother and stop it, because of the amount of rejection he got throughout his life.
I feel like the song is the most important on the album, because not only do we get to hear other people's stories but we got a piece of Logic's life. Since the album is about everybody, we didn't expect him to get personal, he gave us a piece of him on the track.
Overall, a masterful track to an equally masterful album.