Logic — The Incredible True Story

Logic's second studio album. Almost entirely produced by the rapper himself and 6ix, it features three rhythms by Sir Dylan, two each by C-Sick and DJ Khalil, and a beat by Stefan Ponce, SykSense, OZ, DJ Dahi, and Tae Beast. The guests are Big Lenbo, Lucy Rose, Dria and Jesse Boykins III. Released by Visionary and Def Jam, it achieves considerable commercial success and is highly regarded by critics: #3 on the Billboard 200, first among rap records, certified platinum in 2021.

I don't know what to say, I didn't like it. 18 songs, 4 skits, 62 minutes. Here, everything appears average, from rhythms to rap, passing through drums, flows and lyrics provided by the boy, nothing stands out in this dense fog, from which the only bright glimmer seems to be provided by the melodic and bewitching performance of Lucy Rose in "Innermission", on a very rare almost-good production, where even the MC seems to be more inspired than usual. The rest goes unnoticed, nothing catches the listener, there's some dark melody, sometimes a sample or two might surprise you on the first listen, but from the second they won't.

In the rapping section, this is one of Bobby Hall's most effortless performances to date, he sounds in a mediocre way over a set of beats that is pleasantly bland, beautifully worthless, tepid. He sings, sometimes. It's nice, it's good. He doesn't interest me, he doesn't do anything to get me interested, neither when he spits slow nor when he accelerates with the super-fast flow. And the boy makes a crazy effort on the hooks, almost all of them really cumbersome and clumsy, he can't carry them out decently.

Side note: there is a video for the single "Young Jesus". Big Lenbo spits almost better than his friend on an average boom bap with poor drum, passable samples, and the usual struggled-hook (one of the worst tracks to have ESG's "UFO" as a sample), but the interesting thing is that the video is supposed to be a homage to "Without Me" at times, and instead looks almost like a parody of it. 4.5/10.