Logic - Everybody
For a significant portion of the album, Logic stakes a claim to his blackness with receipts, citing his great-grandfather the slave, his cousin Keisha, and saying nigga a few times. None of these race raps do anything meaningful. They say very little about the mechanics of racism and they say next to nothing insightful about being black in America. He spends more time denouncing rioters than killer cops on America. Trump gets a single bar of disapproval but Kanye gets several for meeting with him. Logics calls for civic action seem woefully ignorant to how oppression and white supremacy workfrom the role of private prisons and redistricting to stop and frisks. To that end, not once does he consider how being white-passing could skew his perception of what it means to be black. He never even probes what it might mean when people assume that hes white; either he refuses to engage thoughtfully here or hes simply irresponsible. This isnt just lazy, its messy. It's the #AllLivesMatter of rap albums.
For a significant portion of the album, Logic stakes a claim to his blackness with receipts, citing his great-grandfather the slave, his cousin Keisha, and saying nigga a few times. None of these race raps do anything meaningful. They say very little about the mechanics of racism and they say next to nothing insightful about being black in America. He spends more time denouncing rioters than killer cops on America. Trump gets a single bar of disapproval but Kanye gets several for meeting with him. Logics calls for civic action seem woefully ignorant to how oppression and white supremacy workfrom the role of private prisons and redistricting to stop and frisks. To that end, not once does he consider how being white-passing could skew his perception of what it means to be black. He never even probes what it might mean when people assume that hes white; either he refuses to engage thoughtfully here or hes simply irresponsible. This isnt just lazy, its messy. It's the #AllLivesMatter of rap albums.