Logic

Gaithersburg, and the five tapes that got him signed

Logic was born Sir Robert Bryson Hall II on 22 January 1990 in Rockville, Maryland, and raised in the West Deer Park part of Gaithersburg, in a household shaped by his parents' addictions. He was expelled from several schools and had stopped attending by the tenth grade, which left a lot of unsupervised hours for records.

The recorded trail starts in 2009 with Psychological: The Mixtape, released under the name he used before the current one. Young, Broke & Infamous followed in 2010, the year he signed to the management-and-label outfit Visionary Music Group. Then came the run that made his name an argument worth having: Young Sinatra in 2011, Young Sinatra: Undeniable in 2012, and Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever in 2013 — technically dense, openly indebted to mid-1990s New York, and successful enough that Def Jam signed him in April 2013.

Four number ones and a phone number

Under Pressure, the 2014 debut, reached number four on the Billboard 200. The Incredible True Story in 2015 went one better at number three and wrapped the rapping inside a science-fiction radio play about a crew looking for a new planet, a structural habit he has never really dropped.

Everybody in 2017 was his first number one, and it carried the song that changed the scale of his audience: "1-800-273-8255", named after what was then the US National Suicide Prevention Lifeline number, with Alessia Cara and Khalid. It brought him two Grammy nominations in 2018, for Song of the Year and Best Music Video — still the only Grammy nominations of his career. YSIV in 2018, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind in 2019 and No Pressure in 2020 all topped the Billboard 200 as well, four consecutive number ones.

In July 2020, alongside No Pressure, he announced his retirement to concentrate on being a father; his son Bobby was born that same month. The retirement lasted under a year. Bobby Tarantino III arrived in June 2021.

Off Def Jam, onto his own ledger

Vinyl Days in 2022 closed out the Def Jam contract, and he left that year for BMG, working through his own BobbyBoy Records. College Park followed in 2023, named for the Maryland town and built as a day-in-the-life sequence rather than a singles package.

Ultra 85, released on 9 August 2024 through BobbyBoy, Three Oh One Productions and BMG, had been promised since 2017, when a hidden message in the Everybody booklet announced it. At 77 minutes it is the longest album in his catalogue by a minute, produced mostly by his long-standing collaborator 6ix with Logic himself, plus Beat Butcha, Cre8, PoST and Kaelin Ellis, and trailed by five singles including "Fear", "44ever" and "Teleport". A companion science-fiction novel of the same name followed on 17 September 2024. The chart numbers show the shape of an independent career: number 45 on the Billboard 200, but number 10 on Independent Albums and 13 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. AllMusic gave it four and a half stars and called it one of the stronger, more mature efforts in his catalogue.

In June 2025 he put out Live and in Color with Juicy J — 21 tracks, Juicy J on the microphone and Logic producing every one of them, with spoken interludes between the songs and Logic's own verses arriving about a third of the way in. He has also been working on a tenth album, Sidequest, leaning on Memphis rap and phonk.

Paradise Records: the film, and the disc that paid for it

Paradise Records is a comedy Logic wrote, directed and starred in, his feature debut as a director. He plays Cooper, who owns a vinyl shop in Bend, Oregon facing a $178,000 foreclosure and hides the fact from his staff until an attempted robbery turns into a hostage standoff. The supporting cast runs from Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ron Perlman and Martin Starr to Rainn Wilson, Juicy J, and Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith reprising Jay and Silent Bob. It premiered at the Tribeca Festival in June 2025, with a digital release that December.

The reviews split. Damon Wise at Deadline was positive but qualified, writing that not every joke lands but there is an anarchic charm to it; Morgan Shaunette at Willamette Week was not, arguing that it tries to remix a classic and ends up a pale imitation.

The more consequential part was the distribution. Rather than sell the film to a studio, Logic funded it himself and sold it direct, and loaded the Blu-ray pre-order with five previously unreleased albums: The Ballad of Rooster Jenkins, the soundtrack Information Overload, All Sinatra Everything, The Lost Tapes, and Muldoons, a sequel to his novel Supermarket. He has said the Blu-ray brought in over a million dollars. A twelve-track compilation drawn from those albums went out afterwards for anyone who did not buy the disc.

Autumn 2026: the rematch with G-Eazy

Ten years after their first co-headline run, Logic and G-Eazy are out again as The Endless Summer Tour Part II, 23 North American shows that opened on 15 September 2026 in Kansas City and finish on 28 October at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. Juicy J is the special guest on selected dates.

As of the start of October the remaining run is a fortnight of amphitheatres and two indoor rooms: TD Pavilion at the Mann in Philadelphia on 2 October, PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel on the 3rd, Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland on the 4th, then West Palm Beach, Tampa and Alpharetta, Rogers in Arkansas, Irving in Texas, Phoenix on the 15th, Chula Vista on the 16th, Fontainebleau Las Vegas on the 18th, YouTube Theater in Inglewood on the 21st, the Moda Center in Portland on the 25th, and Mountain View to close.

Demand is solid rather than overwhelming. The Toronto show on 27 September at RBC Amphitheatre was well short of a sell-out, with lawn ticket-holders moved up into the seated sections, and both headliners played to a crowd that visibly thinned as each one finished.

On stage

Logic goes on first and plays about ninety minutes, which he has explained from the stage as a deliberate choice: with two young sons at home he would rather get the work done and spend the rest of the night, as he puts it, in dad mode backstage. There is then a fifteen-minute changeover before G-Eazy's seventy-five minutes, and in Toronto the whole thing was off by 11pm for curfew.

The set itself is a career audit rather than an album rollout. Setlist.fm's average across the tour's early shows runs to 26 songs with no encore, opening on "Contact" into "Soul Food" and "Soul Food II", then working through "Upgrade", "Self Medication", "Like Woah", "Everybody", "Perfect", "man i is" and Ultra 85's "44ever" before "Homicide", "Indica Badu" and "44 More". The back third is the part the long-term audience comes for — "Heard Em Say", "1-800-273-8255", "5AM", "Flexicution", "Everyday", "Under Pressure" and "Fade Away", with "Gang Related" closing.

Production is deliberately plain next to G-Eazy's staging, which centres on a vintage black Mustang: Logic works in front of jumbo screens that simply put up the relevant album artwork for each song, and fills the gaps with a t-shirt cannon and thrown merchandise. In Toronto he restarted one track twice until the crowd matched it, shot footage for an unreleased video mid-set, and ended by bringing a fan who raps, billed as The Medic, up to perform. Openers on that date were the Vancouver emo-rap act Hermit and T Man The Wizard, signed to Logic's BobbyBoy Records, who started the set in a wizard costume and shed it. The reviewer there rated it the best of the three Logic sets they had seen, and flagged the obvious gap: two rappers who have recorded together playing entirely separate shows, with no shared song at any point.