Logic Confessions of a Dangerous Mind Album Review

• Album Review

Confessions of a Dangerous Heed

• Logic

• Rap/Hip-Hop

Credits

Release Date

• May ten, 2019

Record Label

• Def Jam Recording

Functioning

• Debuted at No. 1.

Reviewer

Album Review

Sir Robert Bryson Hall Two probably isn't a name you're immediately familiar with. But if I tell y'all that Sir Robert Bryson Hall Ii is improve known equally the rapper Logic, well, and then things might start clicking into place.

Logic was raised past drug-addicted parents and surrounded past siblings who sold drugs while he grew up Gaithersburg, Maryland. Afterward existence expelled from high schoolhouse, Logic turned to music as a mode to escape and to immerse himself in what he loved most.

He quickly put out vii mixtapes, starting in 2009. But Logic is best known for his chart-topping colalboration with Khalid and Alessia Cara on "1-800-273-8255," a vocal that highlights the National Suicide Prevention Hotline and reaches out to those struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts.

On acme of his multiple mixtapes, he also has five studio albums, his latest being Confessions of a Dangerous Mind. Sixteen explicit tracks long, this album examines the correlation between low and social media. Just it as well deals with the rapper's casual marijuana use and his sexual exploits, equally well equally the reality that he believes he'south "made it" as an artist.

Pro-Social Content

Logic critiques social media and some aspects of internet life in a couple of songs. "Clickbait," for case, takes a shot at how the media manipulatively uses tragedy to generate online traffic. That song besides says of a young rapper's untimely expiry, "R.I.P., Lil Peep, let that young homo sleep/Permit that immature homo decease teach/The youth, the streets, to beat habit."

Similarly, "Wannabe" speaks to the vain pursuit of fame on the net and the insecurities that inevitably follow. Though it's drenched in harsh profanities, that song still acknowledges how some people respond self-destructively (slipping into low and even considering suicide) if plenty people don't "like" their social media posts.

"Cocaine" might sound like the title of a song that glorifies drug use. But in fact, it's doing the exact reverse. Logic raps, "I don't wanna glorify it, just the streets glorify it." (That said, it's clear elsewhere that Logic smokes marijuana and seems to put that drug in a different category.)

Logic encourages thriftiness on "Mama/Prove Love": "Salve yo' money, don't think about a Beamer/'Til ya sellin' out arenas, and you lot're ballin'." And on "Confessions of a Unsafe Mind," he adds, "Don't worry about how to maintain all your millions/Only spread that positivity for the children."

"Don't Be Agape to Be Different," featuring Volition Smith, is nearly as straightforward as a song tin can be. Both Logic and Smith desire people to know that it's OK to be yourself: "Don't be afraid to be different ya'll," they tell us.

Logic claims that he respects women, and certain songs mildly support that claim, but …

Objectionable Content

… he's definitely not consistent in this area, with other songs descending into crude objectification of women. Numerous, graphic sexual references show up on tracks such as "Cocaine," "Mama/Show Love," "clickbait," "Lost in Translation," "BOBBY," "COMMANDO" ("Michael Jackson on these hoes, you know I keep that glove") and others. Among other things, Logic uses the f-give-and-take in a sexual context, and he brags about not using a condom.

In addition to crude sexual references, Logic flexes a lot here, letting everyone know that he is the best on songs such as "Keanu Reeves," "Lost in Translation," "Confessions of a Dangerous Heed," "Mama/Show Love," "Limitless," "Still Ballin'," "COMMANDO," "Pardon My Ego," "Out of Sight," "BOBBY" and "Icy." In "Keanu Reeves," he brags: "Can't no ane compete, I'm spectacular." And in "Icy," we hear, "I'k a bad m—–f—er (I'm icy)".

Trigger-happy imagery is prevalent every bit Logic expresses his desire to beat everybody else in the rap business. And even though he'southward more often than not critiquing the issues of suicide and cocky-harm on "clickbait," "Wannabe," "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" and "Out Of Sight," some references to those subjects could mistakenly be heard every bit glorifying them.

On "Homicide," Logic pairs up with Eminem to say, "Bobby feelin' villainous, he killin' this/I'chiliad comin' for your human being and his lady and even the babe." There'southward also a sarcastic reference to abortion on "Mama/Testify Beloved."

Sympathetic references to smoking marijuana ("Wonder why I smoke dope, no wonder why, I can't cope") and drinking ("All this potion that I'm sippin'") turn up on "Lost in Translation" and elsewhere. One song, "COMMANDO," brags nearly having a drug dealer who supplies "weed for the month." "Cocaine," and "clickbait," while they don't glorify drugs, still namecheck cocaine, as well as Molly and Percocet.

All 16 tracks include profanity that ranges from balmy to heavy. F- and s-words are heard repeatedly, and other frequent expletives include "b–ch," "h—," "d–north," "d–mit," "p—y" and "n-gga." Elsewhere, "hoe" and "fag" are heard once or twice.

Summary Informational

In a YouTube interview with Brian Foster, Logic gets candid well-nigh his life, his views on social media and his craft.

He dips into what it was like growing upwards in a broken home and and so jumps to his struggles with anxiety and depression, and their relationship to the internet. "Every single time I got on social media, I was deplorable," he says. Then what did he practise? He cut social media out of his life and now simply uses it for work purposes. Smart.

And that'southward the thing, in many ways Logic is smart. This guy, as an artist and an private, oftentimes seems genuine, kind and intelligent. His music can be thoughtful, deep and intellectually provocative.

Merely …

Logic too often wades into troublesome waters. Profane language and sexual references lace well-nigh of his songs, every bit do allusions to Logic's obvious affection for marijuana. Cocaine may be out, only the same disquisitional logic doesn't apply to weed, which the rapper clearly considers no big deal.

A review of this album from Variety sums information technology up well: Yep, there are some nice moments here, "only you do accept to sift through the silt to go to the aureate." And even when you find those gold nuggets, they might not be as shiny as you'd similar.

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