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Cole delivers a rare and intimate feature to close out Logic’s biggest-selling album to date. More exciting, though, is the context some of these near-imitations take when we realize Drake is now a Logic fan and J. Sometimes these moments become admittedly tedious, the source of many critiques, and undercut the potential Logic channels throughout the project. Cole and Drake throughout the tape, from Logic's form to the flows and melodies. There is no doubt that Logic can whip up fans and mobilize a cult following look no further than the pure sales of his last LP. The subsequent HipHopDX review dubbed the tape a “‘Free Album’ (the highest possible praise for a mixtape).” The review itself has a 0.0/5.0, likely a bug when they migrated their review layout, but it does inadvertently speak volumes to Logic’s polarizing position in music. His critical legacy begins with this tape as well. Still a few years shy of singing ballads about respect, 2013 is when the seeds were undoubtedly planted for a track like “Overnight.”

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The teetering creep of “5AM” gives way to an admission of trauma: “I've seen a lot of shit I shouldn't have but never forgot it though / Brothers on the corner selling crack like it was nada though, ” but in the same verse he privileges kindness. Across Welcome to Forever, he tells these stories candidly in the form of tight verses and crooning melodies. Though he summons the Young Sinatra persona to guide the tape, Logic does not run from his truth. At times, there was blood all over the kitchen and fucking floor.” I can’t even begin to explain the tormenting feeling of living in my household constant screaming, death-curdling screams, arguments between my mom and other men, her getting her fucking ass whooped.

My mother got stabbed, she was raped, she tried to choke me to death as a child. “But she went through a hell of a lot of shit from drugs, prostitution-all types of shit, it fucked her mind up. “My mother was a good woman,” Logic tells Complex. Legacy, survival, peace, love, and positivity-all of this, we have to imagine, is how Logic copes with the sum of his terrifying childhood. Specifically looking at “Roll Call,” the track boasts the same yearning for humanity and acceptance, and calls for listeners to open their minds much like the first minute of Everybody’s intro, “Hallelujah.” Even the sprawling monologue of “Take It Back” is delivered here in a succinct four bars: “Ain't seen my momma in a minute / 'Cause growing up she called me a n***a / That would never amount to nothing / Racism from my own momma, left home 'cause of drama.” The seeking melodies and blistering anthems that saved The Incredible True Story from itself appear first on WTF in the form of “925,” “Feel Good,” and the “I Am the Greatest” prequel, “Ballin.” Logic’s beloved blend of hip-hop references and sci-fi nerdom comes out first on Dizzy Wright-assisted “Young Jedi.” Though Welcome to Forever sounds ever jazzier than TITS, Logic still delivers the vocal warm-up for “City of Stars” on “Break It Down.” On “Randolph Returns,” Logic assures fans he could never sell out, and time and time again he has admitted that his major label debut was made with the form of “traditional hip-hop” in mind. Under Pressure’s “Intro” plays like a soulful and pensive reprise of “Man of the Year.” Even the anxiety that is laden within his Marty Randolph skits speaks to the overall sonics of Under Pressure. Thematically, we hear the caustic autobiography of Under Pressure on “5AM,” “Nasty,” and “Common Logic / Midnight Marauders,” a track that alludes to the A Tribe Called Quest narrative device framing Logic’s debut.