Sayonara

Ayo, for real, look, let me just say this

I wanna say I love Def Jam, Def Jam changed my ****ing life

There's definitely some ****boys in that building

Some suits wearing ties and shit

But it's some real good-ass ****ing people man

Steve Bartels, Faisel, Jeff

****ing Justin Duran, Dave Bell

Chris Atlas, David Amaya

I could ****ing go on bro, Lory, Peter, Kate and Gabe

We gon' get into the rest later, man, but I ****ing love y'all

Let's get to this shit, here we go

This my Friday Night Lights, track nineteen

From major to independent, as sightseen, my Ultralight Beam

I ain't finna go into the discrepancies of my deal

Like the millions that y'all owe me, I gotta audit y'all for real

But you changed my life, that's my word

Took a young kid out of Gaithersburg, and you'll never know

What it means for a kid in his teens and his entire team

To go from open mics to actually living they dreams

This a "thank you" to the people in the building

For helping me build the empire that I'm still building

Diddy said a rapper only gets five years, we double that

Independent now, won't double back

I rep the BMG, yeah, I'm the Big Money Getter

**** the pop shit, remember Logic as a spitter

Just a kid having fun when I step to the mic

That's why I never understood the hate I get when I write

Back when posting new songs on Internet rap forums

All the way to talking shit first night I sold out The Forum

But they hated Jesus, homie

I ain't comparing, I'm just reasoning, homie

I'm just tryna set an example

I went pop and made millions, now all I do is chop samples

Egon's finest, peanuts after like I was Linus

Followed by that College Park next, that's the line-up

First album, the EP was No I.D

Last album, the executive producer is me, I'm set free

Sayonara

So the crazy shit is right, like, when we was shopping deals

Mike, Mike Caren over at Atlantic, he offered me a deal for thirty grand

I was like **** no, hahaha, shoutout Mike, though

Some independent label offered us one-point-five, and we was like nah

But Def Jam hit me up, you know what I'm saying

Noah pressed my A&R for ten ****ing years, bro

He linked me with No I.D., man, and I was like, "Yo, No I.D.?

That's Ye, that's Ye, that's Common, homie - how could we not?"

And we signed a deal, we inked that shit up, bro

Maurice Frazier, Lisa Bronson, Jason Peerless

****ing Liza, Nakeisha, Mario, Ryan

Cordon, I could go on

Lynn Gonzalez, yo, Lynn Gonzalez

Ian, you mother****er with the samples

Ian be listening to shit that ain't even a sample

He's like, "This shit's a sample"

I be like, "Ian, shut the **** up, bro"

I love y'all, Antoinette, Donna, Jamie, Stephanie

Jenny, Paul, all you mother****ers know who y'all at

And legal, man, album delivery, I ****ing love y'all

Everybody in ****ing A&R, admin, samples

PR, marketing, the execs, ****ing Barry White's old ass

That mother****er took care of me, man, he signed me

I remember seeing a Britney Spears ****ing plaque

She went ****ing diamond

I asked Chris Zarou, my manager at VMG

I said, "What the **** is diamond? ", he said, "Bro, ten times platinum"

I'll never forget I said never, bro, "Never, I'm not gonna go diamond"

1-800 almost diamond, what up? Haha, billions of streams

Everybody in sales and commerce, DDC, Marcus

Scott, Bobby, ****ing Theta, Mac, Eric, Fred Thomas

All y'all, sorry for the first name basis but I **** with y'all

Everybody at Radio, man

First of all, let me start this shit off with Noah Sheer, Gaithersburg's own

We went to ****ing Summit Hall Elementary School, bro

I mean you like ninety years older than me but it's all good

Nicky Farag stepping up in the ranks, I love you shawty!

Lory LaMattina, Keith Ross, ****ing Rick ? the God

Mundo Garcia, boy

Get a bigger pair of pants, your shit look like it's painted on

Sonny D, my ****ing brother, Britney, Scott, Chico, EP

Like, Rodney, Rosie, Rozzy, Brian, International, Mike Alexander

Marissa, Mira, Art, Ty

Ty, that's all I gotta say, Ty Lindsey, that's it

Finance, ****ing finance, Jen Hersh

Melissa Bernal, I love y'all

Tour Marketing, Albert, Albert Cook

Shervah Edwards, video, oh, Millie, gotta love Millie

Millie was always on the sets like

"Alright, make sure the Red Bull can is exactly in front of the shot"

I was like, "Millie, get the **** out of here"

Remy, Carolyn, Yolanda, Nadeen

And of course, of course

Deborah at the sample team, I ****ing love you, Deborah

I don't even gotta say your full name, you are a goddess

Nicole Pastine (And of course the homie Xavier)

Rapping is my passion, I love y'all, man, look

This what I'ma say about Def Jam, look, man

We had some ups and downs, you know what I'm saying

My first album, I was getting sued by some ****boy

And y'all was tryna get me to change my name and shit

I spent my whole ****ing career, this who I was

Y'all trying get me to change my name

Y'all wasn't trying to put out my album so we did the while-you-wait shit

We went on tour, you know what I'm saying

But eventually shit worked out

But even with that, you mother****ers, you know

You ? me and shit

And that's what I'll say

I don't- I really wholeheartedly don't believe that was none of the people I just named, man

Everybody, I **** with y'all, I rock with y'all

Any other ****boys behind the scenes, y'all could suck a ****

Eat my whole ****ing ballsack, man

This industry is ****ed up

The wildest shit is I'ma say this man

This whole industry is musical chairs, yo

Cats like Steve Bartels, Faisel, Jeff Harleston, man

They, they the real ones, you know what I mean

But like mother****ers be so in-and-out, that's why I didn't stay with Def Jam

I went to Def Jam after ten years on the label, because I owed them that

I was like, "Okay, so what's up? we signing another deal?"

They ain't even get back to me in time

So I went somewhere else and I don't know who butthurt or what

I could give a ****, man

All I'ma say is I love y'all who rock with me

I love y'all who take care of me

I love y'all who ****ing drove me from New York to Boston to do

Radio interviews and shit man

Appreciate y'all

It's been a, it's been a **** time on this major label shit, you know what I'm saying

I've made millions and millions of dollars for y'all, hahahaha

And we've had some good memories

I love you, I **** with you

My only regret is I ain't really get to **** with ? like that

Yo man, you're a ****ing G bro

Much love to Lucian

I appreciate all the ****ing millions of dollars that you gave me to make these records, hahahahaha

Independent shit next

VMG, VMG, Bobby Boy

Sayonara

Logic as a rapper is an anomaly, a person who is out of time

Living in the present you know rooted in the past

But a traditionalist who believes in the future

Who believes in what hip-hop was and can still be

So we're here in this modern time

Thinking about and listening to the development of hip-hop and it's future all at once

I think that a lot of people in the modern sense of the word get caught up in how fleeting time is

And they believe that what's happening right in front of them

Is the most immediate thing and it's the most meaningful thing

And they have to engage what's happening in the moment

Because the moment's gonna be gone and then they're not gonna care

Or no one else around them is gonna care

And I think we forget that great experiences in the, in humanity

Go on for decades, centuries, sometimes millennia

Before we really know how to make sense of them

And so, in the same way that the monks in the dark ages were keeping records and saving books

You know, it is important for us to really make sense of one of Americas great folk musics, and that's hip-hop

And there's very few people who care enough to actually keep the form going while trying to push it forwards

Logic's one of those dudes

And the reason Madlib and I decided that we wanted to work with him

Is because he came through with a true sincerity and appreciation for the form

And for all of the people who make it

And like a true understanding of craft and like, who's doing what

And how their technique is either important, relevant

Something that needs to be preserved or what

And I remind myself that even though hip-hop seems to me

In my mid forties to be an old thing because it's been around since the early '70s

It's actually just in its infancy

And if it's not for people like Logic trying to keep this tradition alive

We're not really gonna know even shortly after, what's supposed to come

This hopefully is an art form that's gonna outlast

All these art forms that preceded it and formed it

And we're only gonna know that if people who truly have the passion, belief

And the proficiency, the musical acumen

To hold the form, hold it dear

And at the same time, not be so reverent to it and push it forward

Are there to show us the way

So hopefully he's one of these dudes, I have that belief