Logic — Young, Broke & Infamous [mixtape]

After the mysterious object "Psychological", this is a new mixtape dropped by Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, also known as Logic, rapper of Gaithersburg, Maryland. For a good part of the time the rapper spits words over rhythms of other artists and songs already known to fans, so the production credits are unknown.

This set of rhythm it's hardly ever memorable: there's a continuous boom bap that goes from being decent to being dull, the rhythms change color, but they're always dipped in pop-flavored tasteless tea bags. It's curious because this mixtape comes before the "Young Sinatra" series, so it should be on the same strand of quality if not better, starting from the end of Logic's career and going back to the past. Instead, when you get here you find yourself at the starting point, if you start from "Bobby Tarantino III" (2021) you arrive at "Young, Broke and Infamous" (2010), a long eleven-year tour in which very little has changed.

Logic's work is an uninspired, effortless, excessively irregular and bloated tape with 17 tracks, two skits and an addition of two bonus tracks, despite the limited duration of just 52 minutes: the fast rapping provided by the performer fails to compensate for a very poor lyricism, resulting in several shoddy cuts and numerous love songs over a gray production. Taken individually, the songs could also be acceptable and if you want you could even pass over them, but put together they're redundant and messy. Unique exceptions are "Young Sinatra" and "Growing Pains", the best cuts of the edition and both earn their own set of songs, boasting fantastic rhythms and a Logic inspired smoothness rap.

It's a personal, guestless mixtape, which doesn't play in favor of rapper's fans, but definitely plays in his critics' favor, hard to believe: it's all pop rap, from this project you would never have said that Logic would become Young Sinatra, but surely you would have understood that he would have had the road to becoming Bobby Tarantino. 5/10.